“JOINT STATEMENT ON THE BAN OF On Thursday June…”
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JOINT STATEMENT ON THE BAN OF On Thursday June 28th, the French government banned the Ligue Communiste (French Section of the Fourth International). The pretext used by Pompidou was the demonstration led by the Ligue Communiste against a racialist meeting organised by the Fascist movement; this demonstration ended violently when the police not only protected the meeting but charged the demonstration, The reasons for the ban lie not so much in the Ligue’s anti-Fascist action, but in the crisis of French capitalism and in the problems that the Ligue in common with other revolutionary organisations has increasingly posed for the French ruling class, particularly its leadership of mass mobilizations against the Debre laws on military conscription, and its increased . involve nt in working-class struggle,s have given Pompidou cause for concern. The fact that the largest revolutionary organisation in France has been declared illegal cannot be considered as an isolated fact; it involves the whole working-class in France and internationally.
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