Our comrade Jean-Michel Krivine (5/8/1932-14/5/2013) has just died.

A surgeon, an activist from the age of 14, member of the Fourth International since 1956, Jean-Michel was member of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), then of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA). He was one of the instigators of the Russell Tribunal on the Vietnam War. As such, in 1967 he investigated war crimes in North Vietnam and, clandestinely, in South Vietnam. In 1978 he was also part of a mission of medical aid and political contacts within the communist underground in Thailand. He was also active within the Vietnamese Trotskyist Group in France, in which he was the only non-Vietnamese.

Jean Michel was a musician and animated the choral society of the LCR. Until ihis death he was an active collabroator of the magazine Inprecor review, subbing and proofinreading the latest issue n° 592/593, March-April 2013. In addition to his many articles, he recently published “Carnets de missions dans le maquis thaïlandais (1978)” (Notebooks from missions in the Thai underground) (Les Indes Savantes, Paris 2011) and “Carnets de missions au Vietnam (1967-1987)” (Notebooks from missions in Vietnam) (Les Indes Savantes, Paris 2005).

Below: Jean-Michel Krivine removing traces of napalm in what had been a surgical unit in North Vietnam March 1967, where he investigated into war crimes for the Russell Tribunal.