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Socialist Renewal - new series: 9
The Flame, Not the Ashes
Lionel Jospin
"To be faithful to a tradition means to be faithful to its flame and not its ashes." Jean Jaurès
This is the text of a speech given by the French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, on European Union Reform on 28th May 2001. He talks of the 'European art de vivre, a specific way of doing things, of defending freedoms, of fighting inequality...' In this speech he provides us with some clear policy prescriptions; for a European response to globalisation, for worker's rights, and for defending public services against privatisiation.
As Henry McCubbin notes in his introduction, Jospin has, unlike many of his contemporaries, got the message from the masses on the other side of the barricades at Genoa, and he is aware of the call of Keir Hardie's comrade, and founder of the French socialist Party, Jean Jaurès: "To be faithful to a tradition means to be faithful to its flame and not its ashes."
Price: £2.00
ISBN: 978 0 85124 661 1
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