Uma visão britânicas das eleições europeias (incluindo as portuguesas)

Euroelections: far left breakthrough ... outside Britain, por David Osler:

SHEDLOADS of Trots and tankies[*] will be getting a ticket to Strasbourg tonight. According to the Financial Times, the far left may pick up four and perhaps five of the 22 European parliament seats allocated to Portugal, with up to 20% of the vote:

Nine recent polls give the Bloc Esquerda (BE), a party formed 10 years ago from a coalition of small Trotskyite, Maoist and other radical movements, an average of more than 10 per cent in Sunday’s election for the European Parliament.

Portugal’s Communist party (PCP), which has never converted to “Euro-communism”, remaining faithful to its Stalinist roots, is polling more than 8 per cent. Each is forecast to elect two of Portugal’s total of 22 European MPs and the BE is aiming for three.

The example of BE illustrates what can achieved when revolutionary socialists come together in a united organisation that that does not change its political orientation every few years and its name even more frequently than that.

Meanwhile, last I heard the Noveau Parti Anticapitalist in France and Die Linke in Germany are both polling around 10%, and also likely to secure representation in Strasbourg (...).

Este artigo foi escrito no dia das eleições, e só acertou nos resultados portugueses (em França, foi um fracasso total)... Também penso que não há grupos maoistas na criação do BE (creio que a UDP sempre foi mais estalinista que maoista e desde 1978 que abandonou todas as referencias maoistas).

* "tankie" é calão britânico para "comunista ortodoxo", estilo PCP