Decline the CP
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The Paris daily Le Monde (April 3) carries some starting figures on the development of the Communist Party's support in France.
The CP's vote has fallen steadily in recent years, from about 20% of the total to 12 or 14%. In 1973, 33% of people questioned said that they had, on balance, a 'good opinion' of the CP. By February 1984 that score was down to 18%.
And those still voting for the CP seem to have become more sceptical about the party.
Only 35% of them have a good pinion of the USSR (62% in 19.2J. Ocly 36% have a positive pinion of 'Marxism'.
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