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2008-10-22 Europe

The New Anticapitalist party breathes (poisonous) life into the French lef t

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-22 10:28|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 What is the saying? Something like, France is such a wonderful country; if only it were not populated by so many Frenchmen. There are times I change that to fit the U.S....

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#2 Once again, hacks are the same everywhere...

Besancenot, moreover, never actually worked much as a mailman. Under French law, workers are entitled to long leaves, on full salary, if they serve as officers of unions or political parties. Besancenot is both. And he knows how to make the most of it. He has been on leave almost continuously, either as a union activist or as an LCR figure--assistant to an LCR member of the European Parliament, party spokesman, or presidential candidate. This was his real job, and it was much better paid than his nominal job at the postal service. As a European Parliament assistant, he apparently made 5,000 euros a month.

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