When the left tried

The first (and still the only) comprehensive study of the French left in power: the history of its failures, the issues encountered, the hopes raised (and dashed) and the conquests abandoned to its adversaries.
In this book, Serge Halimi shows that, together or separately, the radicals, socialists and communists have come up against similar obstacles because too often they ignore the lessons of their past failures. For him, “government constraints” should not force the left to sacrifice the priorities that brought it to power.