Arlette Laguiller

Arlette Yvonne Laguiller ( born March 18 1940 in Les Lilas, Seine- Saint- Denis ) is a Trotskyist party Workers Struggle belonging French politician.

Biography

Arlette Laguiller was born on 18 March 1940 in the town of Les Lilas in the department of Seine- Saint- Denis north-east of Paris, in a working-class family and was interested in politics from a young age. After she had 16 receive the final certificate of the Collège des Lilas, she began teaching in 1956 as a typist at the bank Crédit Lyonnais. There, they should work as a secretary and full-time same official until her retirement in 2000.

Political career

At the age of 20 years Laguiller sat 1960 against the Algerian war. In the same year she became a member of the newly founded socialist party Parti Socialiste unifié (PSU ), later she joined the Trotskyist organization Voix Ouvrière. In the sixties, she was also an active member of the Communist CGT, from which it was later excluded because of their revolutionary ideas. After the student revolution and the general strike in May / June 1968 left-wing organizations, such as the Voix Ouvrière dissolved by a decree of President de Gaulle. Arlette Laguiller then participated in the formation of the radical left-wing party Workers Struggle on June 26, 1968, was elected with 33 years of national party spokesperson in 1973. The following year, a strike broke out, which spread from February to April 1974, the entire banking sector. Together with her supporters convinced the majority of strikers from the active, self-directed by the employees strike, which should be using organized by elected strike committees and ultimately successful.

On May 5, 1974 Laguiller approached the first woman in the French presidential election and achieved 2.3% of the vote ( 595,247 votes). In her position as party spokesperson of Workers Struggle she was confirmed a year, she also appeared for her party from now on as a candidate at all the French presidential elections through 2007.

From 1999 to 2004, Laguiller deputies in the European Parliament. She belonged there, the fraction of the European Alliance Party European United Left - Nordic Green Left at and was a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and substitute member of the Delegation to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the EU-Lithuania Association.

Anecdote

Alain Souchon has dedicated her a song entitled Arlette Laguiller.

Important Dates

On 5 December 2005 declared Arlette Laguiller that she would run for the last time in the presidential elections in 2007 and that thereafter a young activist of Workers Struggle would take their place. According to her, "could take on this role a whole horde of young women."

Works

• Moi une militant. In 1974.
• Une travailleuse revolutionnaire dans la campagne présidentielle. In 1974.
• Il faut changer le monde. In 1988.
• C'est toute ma vie. In 1996.
• Paroles de prolétaires. In 1999.
• Mon communisme. , 2002.