December 12, 2007 (LPAC) - Jacques Cheminade, the head of the Solidarity and Progress party in France and a close friend of Lyndon LaRouche, issued the following statement on Dec. 12, covered in Nouvelle Solidarite:
History Serves Its Best Dishes Only Once
Paris--Dec. 7, 2007 - Currently, whatever Sarkozy's personal input into the matter, it is the institutions of the French Presidency that have taken the upper hand in the definition of the nation's foreign policy. It has to be observed that the French President, for the sake of China's national interest, has reaffirmed that both Taiwan and Tibet belong to China's national territory. Furthermore, he has also congratulated Vladimir Putin for his electoral victory, in contrast to Berlin's and Washington's critiques concerning the failing "democratic" nature of his election. Finally, in Algeria, he not only admitted the "profoundly unjust nature of the colonial system," but has invited not only Hugo Chavez, but also Colonel Qaddafi, to visit Paris.
One has to welcome these developments that go with the necessary promotion of peaceful nuclear energy. The Paris daily Liberation, by attacking the "French President's bad company" and by recognizing that "he has repudiated his campaign promises at the benefit of a realistic policy," shows how vice can honor virtue.
Nevertheless, this policy, if a long way from the past boastings favorable to Bush, will lack real perspective if the fight is not taken up for a new world economic and monetary order. It has to be extended and supported by a purpose.
Happily, the other good news, even better, comes from the opposition. While the Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande stumbles around with his ghost army, Michel Rocard launched a call for a Bretton Woods II and underlined that "far more important than climate change and terrorism, this matter will determine the future of the world in the next decade." His political friend Pierre Larrouturou, as Liberation (Dec. 1-2) reported, demonstrates with all the appropriate figures that economic "hyper-liberalism is leading us to catastrophe." Also, he includes the demand for a new Bretton Woods in his petition calling for the intellectual reconstruction of the French Socialist Party (PS).
The combination of these two developments is an opportunity we cannot fail to seize. Of course, their accomplishment requires a clear shift of our domestic policy: The disdain that Sarkozy has showed for the weakest must cease. One cannot go on pretending one has a social policy while the President's plan means nothing more than giving back to the employed what they already possess (the buy-back of overtime work and savings). We cannot tolerate Prime Minister Francois Fillon's statement that "the reform of the state supposes that each of us accepts that there will be less service, less personnel and less state on his territory." One cannot reform without mutual consulting or by simply dismembering the judicial apparatus. One cannot tolerate our Labor Laws, each paragraph of which represents a social victory for our country's workers, being rewritten over a couple of hours in Parliament.
We need, above anything else, coherence, justice, and courage. We need men and women of whom we can say: "They made us better." Our fight here is to make them appear, because history serves its best dishes only once.
