ROUGE | IMGpapers 1968

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Financially the festival was a huge success. For the last few months the LCR has been running a Fund Drive to raise £200,000 to launch the daily. Most of the money already raised was sunk into mounting the 'Fete Rouge'.

By Saturday evening, less than one third of the way through the programme of the weekend, this cash had been recouped. By the end of the weekend, over £150,000 had been gained. Already there is enough to buy the complete press and production facilities for the daily.

ROUGE

But the festival was more than a moneyspinner. It was a giant celebration of another huge step along the road to the establishment of Trotskyism as a powerful current in the international workers' movement.

A daily Rouge will not only be proof of the growth and influence of the Fourth International in France itself, particularly since 1968. A Trotskvist daily in France