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, by LIEGARD Guillaume
Report on the foundation of the French NPA given at the meeting of the International Committee (IC) of the Fourth International in February 2009.
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On February 5, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) politically dissolved itself and the founding congress of the (…)
, by WAINWRIGHT Sam
Paris, February 14, 2009 — On the weekend of February 7-8, more than 600 delegates and as many observers attended the founding conference of France’s New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), held at la Plaine-Saint-Denis in the working class suburbs to the north of Paris.
Less than a week before, on (…)
, by WAINWRIGHT Sam
Paris, February 14, 2009 — The move to the right by the Socialist Party (PS), which drew the French Communist Party (PCF) and the Greens along in its wake, has been so clearly against the wishes of the support base of these parties that a significant vacuum in French politics has opened up to (…)
, by DUFOUR Suzanne, ISMAIL Sacha, MORRIS Vicki
An interview with Suzanne Dufour, who from 2002–9 was a member and latterly a leader of Jeunesses Communiste Révolutionnaire (JCR), the youth organisation of the LCR. She joined the JCR after Jean-Marie Le Pen came second in the first round of the 2002 presidential elections, beating the (…)
The Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA - New Anti-capitalist Party) was founded on February 6, 2009, adopting a program, provisional statutes, a name, policy guidelines, and electing a new leadership. The conclusion of a process and a dynamic of gathering of anti-capitalist and revolutionary (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, MALTBY Ed, MORRIS Vicki
France: Daniel Bensaid, a leader of the LCR and now of the NPA, spoke to Vicki Morris and Ed Maltby.
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Vicki Morris and Ed Maltby – Six months from now, how will you measure the success of the New Anti-capitalist Party?
Daniel Bensaid – Well, I don’t want to make any (…)
, by McNICOLL Tracy
From financial cataclysm to the greatest recession in modern memory, this global crisis has been a story of mass, mounting misery punctuated by a series of unthinkables. The collapse of historic banks, yo-yo markets, crash bailouts brokered overnight, world leaders of every stripe scrambling to (…)
, by Telegraph.co.uk
Profile: As the global economy crumbles, a young revolutionary’s talk of smashing the state seems attractive to voters in France.
With his cropped hair, Tintin quiff and cheeky grin it is not hard to see why the 34-year old is referred to as everyone?s ?ideal son-in-law?.
France’s (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
We never saw the reference to Trotskyism as a way to shut ourselves off from others. For us, it was more like a polemical challenge. We accepted the Trotskyist tag in our conflict with the Stalinists — but without building a neurotic identity out of it or, conversely, downplaying the importance (…)
, by LICHFIELD John
Olivier Besancenot, the French far-left politician who is rapidly becoming an icon, has perfect working-class credentials as a postman.
He has the cheerful, inoffensive look of the ageing star of a boy-band. He wants to destroy the institutions of the French state but cultivates, brilliantly, (…)
, by ZAPPI Sylvia
The Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) will soon be no more. On Thursday, 5 February, its activists will vote for its self-dissolution to create the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA). Some seven hundred delegates are expected at a four-day conference, 5-8 February, in la Plaine-Saint-Denis (…)
, by SERAFIN Amy
When the McCain campaign labeled Barack Obama a socialist, it was one of the worst slurs they could think of. But here in France, socialists are banal. Hell, we’ve got more than a million communists — Marxists, Trotskyists, anarchists, even Bolsheviks.
French far leftists of all stripes have (…)
, by HENLEY Paul
If one wishes to better understand radical left and social movements, who to look for expertise? The author of the article reproduced here answers: turn to a... criminalogist! But do not be surprised if the answers given by the criminalogist are utterly stupid, as those of Alain Bauer below. (…)
, by MAYER Olivier, MOURIAUX René
For René Mouriaux, a political scientist who studies the history of political ideas and unionism, the recent alliance between French unions is noteworthy.
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L’HUMA : Is the agreement to hold a general strike on January 29 and the unified platform, made public yesterday, (…)
, by THORNS David
It was another good year for Beaumonts with 126 species identified inside the park– the second highest yearlist total ever recorded. (The record was 127 species recorded in 2007)
Observer coverage in 2008 was particularly high, and the park was visited by one or more observers on almost every (…)
, by THORNS David
Will last year’s record-shattering total of 127 species be beaten this year?? Surely not…. [It did not.]
Anyway, this page is devoted to recounting all the thrills and spills on the exciting quest to beat last year’s total. Yes, this is where you can find all the latest bird news from Paris’s (…)
, by ADAM Hélène, BENSAÏD Daniel, COUSTAL François, CREMIEUX Léon, GUILLOTIN Jacqueline, JOHSUA Samuel, KRIVINE Alain, MARTIN Olivier, POUPIN Christine, ROUSSET Pierre, SABADO François, VACHETTA Roseline
This contribution was written as part of preparations for the January 2009 congress of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). The congress agenda includes the political “self-dissolution” of the LCR, to set the stage for the new challenge of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA). The authors of (…)
, par ANTENTAS Josep Maria, VIVAS Esther
The political panorama of the French left has been shaken in recent months by the announcement of the creation of a New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) at the initiative of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR) of Olivier Besancenot.
The NPA was launched just after the presidential elections (…)
, par BESANCENOT Olivier
Hand in hand with the struggles of French workers and students has been the massive growth in popularity of postal worker and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) spokesperson Olivier Besancenot.
Recent opinion polls listed “The Postie”, as even the capitalist media call him, as the second (…)
, by WAINWRIGHT Sam
In August, over 1300 people attended the Revolutionary Communist League’s (LCR) annual “Summer University”.
However, despite being the biggest such gathering for the LCR — born out of the May-June 1968 revolutionary upsurge, it will be the last. LCR activists are preparing to dissolve their (…)
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