InE From a correspondent There they were in the Paris suburb Montreuil: eight men and one woman. each one wearing a sash it the French national colours, seated in a row on the platform at the town Sunday. Another tow mall last council, elected in te tirst round or municipal elections a week earlier, had voted in its mayor and deputies. another town council.
For a start, the Union of the Left cantured all 39 council seats with ar overwhelming 65.98 per cent of the vote. Even more unusual, most of inese counciliors •alt Party members, including the may or and six of his eight deputies. Not just another council, indeed!
So will the new counci rignt te the death to defend the interests of working class in this heavily industrialised area, putting its sources at the disposal of their struggles, and using its huge majority as a pistol to tne neads or un bosses? Not quite The mayor was anxious to stress that the CounCIl SEEK represent the interests even of those who hadn't voted for it. 'Everyone is our fellow citizen, he declared, "we have no enemies'. Someone is in for shock, and it won't be capitalists He concluded his speech with the inspiring slogans: "Long live Montreuil. long live France'. But not the class, it seems, unless it finds better leaders than this.