On the evening of May 5, the World Socialist Web Site spoke with Arlette Laguiller, presidential candidate of Lutte Ouvrière. The interview took place at a party office in a suburb of Paris. Lutte ...

The election campaign conducted by presidential candidate Arlette Laguiller of Workers’ Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière, LO) is dominated by three main themes: unemployment, the housing shortage and wages.

If you believe the polls, in the first round of the presidential elections this Sunday, some 3.5 million perfectly reasonable French people will cast their vote for a 62-year-old retired typist ...

DIJON, France -- France's revolutionary left is alive and still kicking the boss class, in the form of a crop-haired retired bank clerk who stands a good chance of coming third in next week's ...

New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only or Cooking-only subscribers.

PARIS LETTER: Her first name rhymes with starlette, vedette (star) and chouette (neat), adjectives used in newspaper headlines to describe the biggest surprise of the French presidential campaign - ...

Arlette Yvonne Laguiller (born 18 March 1940) is a French politician. From 1973 to 2008, she was the spokeswoman and the best-known leader and presidential nominee of Lutte Ouvrière (LO), a Trotskyist ...

Arlette Laguiller, who is contesting the French presidency as a Trotskyist for the fifth time and has surprisingly emerged as the "third man", has equally surprisingly revealed the long-hidden corners ...

ON APRIL 21st, if the opinion polls are right, a tenth of the electorate will vote for the Trotskyite Arlette Laguiller, a 62-year-old retired bank clerk who is the public face of Workers' Struggle.

Arlette Laguiller is a veteran far-left campaigner who over the course of five presidential elections has won herself the mantle of official working class heroine. This was seen as a wild success, and ...