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"Change everything" ! yells French daily Libération at a European left in the midst of an identity crisis. Now that the right, econimcally speaking, has performed a left turn to face down the crisis, social democrats no longer have an original programme nor a social project to speak of, the left wing wing daily surmises. It has let its working class vote run into the arms of Europhobe parties like Ukip in Britain and Italy’s Northern League Italy, while its "bourgeois bohemians" (a term designating a fashion conscious intellgentsia) vote Green. For Libé renewal will come with a confrontation between different left-wing currents – reformists, radicals, republicans and ecologists. Even if this means abandoning the word "Socialist".
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