Feb 8, 2009

Bourgeois Media Coverage of Dissolution of the LCR and founding of NPA

  • French postman delivers far left message New party 'anticapitalist' rather than communist Popular leader confident of wide base of support The Guardian, Friday 6 February 2009
  • France's leftists launch New Anti-Capitalist Party Friday 06 February 2009 The far left is seeing a rebirth amid an economic crisis that haslent credence to anti-capitalist ideas. Leftist leader Olivier Besancenot has seized the chance to dissolve the ommunistRevolutionary League and launch the New Anti-Capitalist Party.
  • France: LCR Dissolves Itself to Form NPA (MRZine translation of Le Monde article) The Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) will soon be no more. OnThursday, 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 (Seine-Saint-Denis), to launch the new party of Olivier Besancenot.