 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Leading Article: Leon Trotsky and the vacuum on the left of French politics.(Leader)
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The Independent (London, England)
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November 3, 2003
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WITH OUR different history of revolutionary politics, we British are liable to regard news of an alliance of Trotskyist groups as a pitiful irrelevance. We can point out that a merger in Trotskyist politics is usually a way of turning two parties into three: the merged party and two dissident rumps. The French cannot afford to be so insouciant.
Two parties of the revolutionary left entered an alliance at the weekend which could well attract the 10 per cent of the vote re...