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After the implosion of the NPA, François Sabado, former leader of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR/Revolutionary Communist League), who had thought about how to go beyond the LCR in 2009, makes a critical assessment and looks back on the significance of the revolutionary Marxist current. (...)
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Insoumise claimed to replace old political parties using ad hoc structures based on “consensus.” But battles over its post-Mélenchon future have pitched this model into crisis — and show the need for real democratic structures.
La France Insoumise (LFI), the electoral (...)
Philippe Poutou’s campaign, backed by the Nouveau parti anticapitaliste (NPA), in the 2017 French presidential election was a small success: in the televised debate of 5 April, we gained a certain notoriety in the confrontation with the right and the extreme right, Fillon and Le Pen. We (...)
Taking stock of the fourth congress of France’s Nouveau parti anticapitaliste (NPA) in 2018, León Cremieux wrote the following: “The Fourth Congress of the NPA has ended leaving a situation which is open and, at the same time, closed. The next few months will tell in which direction it evolves.” (...)
La France Insoumise party is at a critical moment of transformation. In this article, Razmig Keucheyan and Cédric Durand outline the steps LFI must take to preserve and grow its political project.
La France Insoumise is undergoing a transformation. From an agile movement geared to electoral (...)
The congress of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (New Anticapitalist Party) took place on 9-10-11 December. It resulted in a separation of the party. The first statement published was adopted by the platform winning 48.5% of the votes. The second by the platform obtaining 45.5% of the votes. (...)
“A new imperialism threatens world peace, Russian imperialism” writes Edwy Plenel, a founder of the investigative site Mediapart. “Born out of the wreckage of the Soviet Union” this is an “aggressive synthesis of Stalinist Communism and Great Russian Tsarism.” Its politics are moulded by “the (...)
The first of an occasional series of articles on the lives of figures of the French left.
For more than a decade, from 1936 to 1947, Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002), the famous mathematician, was a Trotskyist in France, though that was only one short period in a long life dedicated to (...)
The broad leftwing alliances NUPES became a major force in France’s National Assembly following legislative elections in June. However, several leading figures in the alliance have voiced their strong disagreement with its main architect, the veteran radical left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, (...)
In this interview Franck Gaudichaud, doctor of Political Science and a militant in the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA - New Anticapitalist Party), examines the political situation opened by the results of the presidential and legislative election in France, particularly the growth of the (...)
Dear PSM comrades,
We are happy to send you from France this message of solidarity from the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) on the occasion of your 24th congress.
In the difficult global situation that we are all experiencing, we welcome your efforts to develop international links between (...)
The majority of the left in France - we’ll leave aside the sectors that openly support Putin - condemns this war of aggression by Russian imperialism, demands the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. But at the same time, it remains paralysed and voiceless, abandoning the field of defence (...)
The coalition, NUPES, now comprises 150 deputies in French parliament - a force of power for the French Left. But how can they avoid the pitfalls of what Nicos Poulantzas called ’statism’? The answer, Cédric Durand and Razmig Keucheyan argue, is that NUPES must work with extra-parliamentary (...)
Raphaël Arnault, the former spokesperson for the Jeune Garde collective, is standing in the French parliamentary elections in June in Lyon, He won’t be wielding the megaphone adorned with the anti-fascist logo of the “three arrows” for a while.
A few weeks ago, Arnault left his position as (...)
Dave Kellaway looks ahead to the French parliamentary elections and examines if Jean Luc Mélenchon and his NUPES coalition can come out on top.
Jean Luc Mélenchon was beaming last Saturday at the launch of NUPES, his new electoral coalition, the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union. The (...)
How should one approach the conflict as an anti-capitalist activist? Back from Ukraine, Olivier Besancenot believes that the progressive forces of the European continent must support more frankly the Ukrainian people, victims of Russian imperialism.
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After several weeks of negotiations, mainly with the Greens and the Socialist Party, La France Insoumise, the left wing organisation led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has sealed an electoral alliance for the coming French parliamentary elections on 12th and 19th June which will choose the 577 deputies (...)
Following the first round of the French presidential election the main left force, the France Insoumise (LFI-France Unbowed), whose candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon under the label Union Populaire came third in the poll and far ahead of all other left candidates, proposed publicly to the Communist (...)
Tributes at Alain Krivine’s funeral on 21 March, 2022, Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
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“To hold on as he held on, optimism of the will had to prevail”
MICHÈLE KRIVINE
I wanted to begin this tribute to Alain with a prelude by Bach played by Rostropovich, because he loved (...)
Dave Kellaway looks at the French presidential elections with the first round starting on 10 April 2022.
They do politics a bit differently in France. In a general election, tens of thousands of people go to political meetings. Some political rallies can draw between 50,000 and 100,000 (...)
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