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<h2 id="projects">Projects</h2> <ul><li>"Living better, changing lives": Reduction of <a href="/facts/Working_time/9bWU3keX">working hours</a> (down to 40 hours per week), higher wages, <a href="/facts/Social_security_in_France/6nDo5djj">social security</a> expansion, socialised housing.</li> <li>Compensated <a href="/facts/Nationalization/cQcRubNU">nationalisation</a> of major industrial companies in the key sectors, of 38 banks and financial institutions, increased <a href="/facts/Financial_regulation/1vIsapIT">market regulation</a>, <a href="/facts/Workers%2527_control/LFoPCj9x">worker participation</a> in company decisions.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Decentralization/5koMXAUs">Decentralisation</a> and "democratisation" of government institutions, guarantee of individual liberties, restriction of police custody.</li> <li>Fight against <a href="/facts/Unemployment/qGzDQbWt">unemployment</a>.</li> <li>"Politics of peace": Abolishing <a href="/facts/Force_de_dissuasion/A3KQUha6">nuclear deterrent</a>, <a href="/facts/Military_service/pPQqAhDk">military service</a> reduction to 6 months, dissolution of both <a href="/facts/NATO/dCeTddMY">NATO</a> and the <a href="/facts/Warsaw_Pact/SLEsUSAS">Warsaw Pact</a>.</li> <li>Education reform.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Andry, Aurélie (23 July 2019). "Was there an alternative? European socialists facing capitalism in the long 1970s" (PDF). European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire. 26 (4): 723–746. doi:10.1080/13507486.2019.1613345. Retrieved 10 July 2024. <a href="https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/187312/7/187312.pdf" target="_blank">https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/187312/7/187312.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Politique économique de l'Union de la gauche puis le tournant de la rigueur" (in French). Cité de l'économie et de la monnaie. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2019. <a href="https://www.citeco.fr/10000-ans-histoire-economie/monde-contemporain/politique-economique-de-l-union-de-la-gauche-puis-le-tournant-de-la-rigueur" target="_blank">https://www.citeco.fr/10000-ans-histoire-economie/monde-contemporain/politique-economique-de-l-union-de-la-gauche-puis-le-tournant-de-la-rigueur</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Politique économique de l'Union de la gauche puis le tournant de la rigueur" (in French). Cité de l'économie et de la monnaie. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2019. <a href="https://www.citeco.fr/10000-ans-histoire-economie/monde-contemporain/politique-economique-de-l-union-de-la-gauche-puis-le-tournant-de-la-rigueur" target="_blank">https://www.citeco.fr/10000-ans-histoire-economie/monde-contemporain/politique-economique-de-l-union-de-la-gauche-puis-le-tournant-de-la-rigueur</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>