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“Unity and radicality”

Olivier Besancenot — 2025-02-02T18:49:00Z

“Above all, we must not despair. That may sound silly, but it's important. Last June, we saw in France that the tide could turn. A week before the second round, a victory for the ‘new popular front' was still totally unimaginable. But it succeeded.”

- IVP601- February 2025 / France

From the dissolution of the National Assembly to the creation of the New Popular Front

Olivier Besancenot — 2024-07-16T12:27:52Z

Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson for France's Nouveau parti anticapitaliste (NPA), spoke to Anaïs Fley on 27 June 2024 on the current political situation in the country (before the second round of parliamentary elections on 7 July 2024 at which the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) emerged as the largest parliamentary bloc).

- IV594 - July 2024 / Far Right, Fascism

“This revolution we are leading is a women's revolution”

Berivan Firat, Olivier Besancenot — 2024-03-16T12:43:00Z

“In 2003, Kurdish women close to the PKK came up with this slogan: if women are not free, society is not free. Women mean life, victory and freedom. Since 2013, we have been using it in all our actions. We find it very difficult to get men to say it.”

- IV590 - March 2024 / Turkey, Kurdistan

Criminal policing, systemic racism, anti-social policies: supporting a legitimate revolt

Christine Poupin, Olivier Besancenot, Pauline Salingue, Philippe Poutou — 2023-06-30T10:21:00Z

A text signed by NPA spokespersons Olivier Besancenot, Christine Poupin, Philippe Poutou and Pauline Salingue.

- IV581 - June 2023 / France, Anti-racism and Islamophobia

“Keep the sense of commitment as a banner”

Olivier Besancenot — 2022-04-10T09:43:48Z

Trribute at the funeral on 21 March by Olivier Besancenot, national spokesperson of the NPA, and previously of the LCR.

- Tributes to Alain Krivine / France, Obituary, Fourth International

“The Commune is an ode to emancipation, which crosses time”

Olivier Besancenot — 2021-03-24T07:24:26Z

“Across time, the Commune is not only its failures, but a source of living inspiration, the first experience of popular emancipation and power, of the power of the exploited and oppressed, with all its limitations, but which speaks to us across the decades. ”

- IV554 - March 2021 / France, Historical events and figures

Solidarity with postal workers: “No online shopping during the health crisis!”

Olivier Besancenot — 2020-04-11T15:56:06Z

On 9 April Olivier Besancenot "the most famous postal worker in France” tweeted:

- News from around the world / France, Covid-19 Pandemic

"We need to invent a collective re-appropriation"

Olivier Besancenot — 2020-04-09T17:29:51Z

This week l'Humanite (newspaper of the French Communist Party) has been asking representatives of the left about their vision for the "day after” Today we interview Olivier Besancenot, of the NPA, who argues for a “shock of solidarity”.

- IV543 - April 2020 / France, Covid-19 Pandemic

The King Stands Naked

Josu Egireun, Olivier Besancenot — 2019-01-26T07:21:52Z

The gilets jaunes movement has discredited not just Macron, but the entire French elite.

- IV528 - January 2019 / France

The yellow vests mean revolt

Josu Egireun, Olivier Besancenot — 2018-12-20T14:34:34Z

“The yellow vests struggle is a class struggle, a conflict based on social hatred...and all the repressive forces at the service of his holiness have been mobilized against it...The king stands naked.”

Gérard Mordillat, Telerama, December 10, 2018

- IV527 - December 2018