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New anti-capitalist party gets underway!

François Duval, Ingrid Hayes — 2008-07-05T20:00:30Z

Three hundred committees were represented by a little under 800 delegates. There were also a good number of observers so in all there were a thousand people. There were about 40% women and a majority of non-members of the LCR.
The agenda of this meeting was in two parts. The first part, a discussion in plenary session allowed the participants to measure the scope of process underway and for some sixty delegates to speak about their local experiences, their struggles, their questions. As it (…)

- IV402 - July 2008 / France, New parties of the left

Towards a new anti-capitalist party

François Duval — 2008-02-29T10:52:00Z

In January, a vast majority of the delegates at the 17th national congress of the LCR approved a new political perspective: the building of a broad anti-capitalist party.

- IV397 - February 2008 / France, New parties of the left

LCR calls for new anticapitalist party

François Duval — 2008-02-09T18:22:37Z

Within the LCR, there is a very broad agreement on the structural reasons behind the attempt to build a new political representation for the world of work, bringing together all those who have not given up on the struggle against the capitalist system.

- IV397 - February 2008 / France, New parties of the left

LCR debates stimulate broad interest

François Duval — 2008-02-08T08:44:04Z

The number and scope of the French and international delegations at the 17th LCR Congress proves the interest in our current debates.

- IV397 - February 2008 / France

The view from France - Respect splits

François Duval — 2008-01-09T14:33:59Z

The split in Respect represents a setback for the construction of a radical left alternative.

- IV396 - January 2008 / Britain, New parties of the left

The presidential election and debates on the Left

François Duval — 2007-06-06T19:19:24Z

The French presidential election generated lots of debates about the way the anti-neoliberal and anti-capitalist Left should proceed. This article looks at what happened and the viewpoint of the LCR.

- IV390 - June 2007 / France, New parties of the left

Red-Green Alliance conference

François Duval — 2007-05-22T18:00:32Z

At the beginning of May, the Red-Green Alliance, an organization of 4 000 members which includes practically all the currents of the Danish radical and ant-capitalist left, held its annual national conference.

- News from around the world / Denmark

On the French Left: what's going on?

François Duval — 2007-02-23T13:31:47Z

The political divisions on the left in France in the run-up to the Presidential elections have provoked much debate internationally. François Duval, from the LCR national leadership recently set out the position of the LCR in a report to the European Anti-capitalist Left.

- IV386 - February 2007 / France, New parties of the left

A political earthquake

François Duval — 2002-05-16T00:00:00Z

The first round of the French presidential election provoked a real trauma, particularly among the masses and traditional left supporters. The final election will be a run off between outgoing president Jacques Chirac, a particularly corrupt rightwing figure, and Jean-Marie Le Pen, representative of the racist and fascist far right.

- IV340 - May 2002 / France

An LCR candidate for the presidential elections

François Duval — 2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the French local elections of April 2001, which confirmed the increased electoral strength of the far left, the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire proposed a joint campaign for the Spring 2002 presidential and legislative elections to the other main organization of the French far left, Lutte Ouvrière (LO).

- IV335 - November 2001 / France