Witch hunt against French CP ministers

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CAPIT4:: + 51: 4.=R0l AFTER the Socialist Party victory in the French elections this May and June, to bring four Communist and MittArrana s decIsIvu ALIL Ilesso =--- Janician Party members into his Cabinet, the right wing has not been slow in hitting back.

On June 24, the leadership of the Force Ouvriere trade union federation declared: 'Concerning the participation of Communists (in the government), we wish to solemnly express, for posterity, our total disagreement"

This pompous rubbish _..thannoninm ealun from FO leader Andre Bergeron in a slowly escalating witch hunt against the Socialist government and the Communist Party ministers.

Bergeron, backed by the right wing press, has accused the CP ministers of placing their own men in key civil service posts.

Earlier this month he hypocritically declared, •It has never been a question of drawing up a blacklist or whatever else for that matter... We simply isters to conduct themselv- -ant tha Communiet min- want wit wuumu es in a manner acceptable to FO and its organisations. This has not been the case so far. We shall say this openly and prove it with actual documented cases" Empty Bergeron is play-acting - following in the tradiing the 1950s, who would appear before the cameras and press at the House UnAmerican Activities Committee brandishing a mysterious white envelope and declaring, 'I have here five names of Communists who occupy leading positions... etc.

Someone eventually opened the envelope and discovered that was empty.

Bergeron's attacks are equally devoid of any truth. Allegations that the French CP is infiltrating the state and 'planting' members in key positions are simply fantasy.

The CP members occupy minor cabinet posts (transport, civil service, vocational training, and health), and have been very tame junior partners to the Socialists.

Bergeron is significantly silent about Mitterrand's •decision to incorporate bourgeois ministers in his government - like Pompidou's former no.2 Michel Jobert. He has until now studiously posed as simply 'an a-political trade unionist This supposed reluctance to become involved in the murky world of politics was the pretext for opposition within FO to the pre-election movement 'to kick out Giscard'

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