Challenge was announced.
Certain that the fight for revolutionary unity. For Socialist Challenge one particular experience of Rouge was especially relevant, as the new weekly intends to open up its pages, as has Rouge, to organisations and individuals who do not necessarily share the positions of the paper.
Krivine outlined how Rouge had progressed in this regard:
*We declared publicly WES this **free tribune" available - especially organisations left. We had many problems with it at first. The other groups told us that they did not want to reinforce our paper. It was a kind of sectarianism.' Krivine explained factor in helping to break down such attitudes was the agreement with far left organisations which saw striking advances for the tar left in the French Alain Krivine, editor of the French Trotskyist daily paper Rouge was in London recently to speak at a rally where the launching of Socialist we could lear a lot from the experiences of comrades in other countries, journalists from Red Weekly and Socialist Challenge asked Krivine how successful Rouge had been in overall LITECTC facility for other revolutionary maJor recent electoral municipal type of unity in action there is much more willingness to use the tribune" columns.' There has also been an increase in the use of such columns by organisations associated with particular issues. As Krivine explained, "we give pages to the women's groups, ecologists, the soldiers groups and so on. Again at first there was some hesitation, they were suspicious of helping Rouge, but now we have such contributions almost every day'.
Krivine stressed that what Rouge was attempting was part of a general struggle for revolutionary unity and regroupment:
*There exists in France today, to the left of the Communist Party, hundreds of thousands of workers and students who perhaps in a very confused way are attracted by revolutionary socialist perspectives, do not see themselves as being in the extreme left organisations. Most do not understand the divisions of th and in a sense they paralysed by them. It would irresponsible of us not to make any attempt to try and heal these divisions.
It was such thinking which led to the election agreement around the miniona electione have even closer cooperation with "free Lutte Ouvriere. As Krivine explains:
with LO before, down. Now they have started again and are progress. the next step will be four common pages The bearance step ore poe The experience comrades which Socialist Challenge but action had been taken.
are be struggle. and KEVINE Challenge are at one on this:
and divisions' •We have had talks about fusion but they broke SOLIC real There have of course been many difficulties, but it is probable that the - in their weekly and in our daily These will be written together and will have a joint editor. Again this French cannot be directly translated to this country. That Rouge was a daily paper gave it an attractiveness will not have. It is also notable that there was a greater willingness to participate in Rouge after major steps to unity in But in Britain particular developments such as the rise of the National Front make similar attempts to forge unity in action not just a 'good idea but a concrete need of the anti-fascist the new Socialist It would be irresponsible if we did not make an attempt to heal the organisations. Confusion and to suppression of internal organisations of the British lef The political campaign to la to begin this discussion abou This debate will continue in thorough-going debate and conceptions in practice, any Unless the far left fragmentati political positions, it will dissi Socialist Challenge will fig and ine vanguard workers organisation we will be tryin revolutionary party in this cour or organisation will achieve s Socialist Challenge - based f International but committed to provide an opportunity to achi
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