Can France's revolutionary left make a breakthrough?

LCR

Reports, comments, and discussion around the LCR's plan to launch a "new anti-capitalist party" in France.

  • A new workers' party in France: report on the NPA founding congress, February 2009
  • "We need to create a common culture": interview with Daniel Bensaid, February 2009
  • Young people in the NPA: interview with Suzanne Dufour, February 2009
  • News and views on France's new revolutionary-left party, December 2008
  • Planning for a new revolutionary party: interview with CathĂ©rine AymĂ©, Solidarity 3/142, 20 November 2008
  • French left hopes to build "from below": report in Solidarity 3/126 of LCR congress, with translation of comments from Daniel Bensaid, Olivier Besancenot, and Yvan Lemaitre
  • Lutte Ouvriere excludes its minority
  • LCR women's commission report
  • On-the-spot reports from LCR congress: first day; second day; third day
  • An article by Trotsky relevant to the LCR's debate
  • History of Democratie Revolutionnaire
  • An anti-capitalist party for France?, article by David Broder in Solidarity 3/125
  • LCR congress set to go for new party "from below", article by Chris Reynolds in Solidarity 3/125
  • French revolutionary left discusses "new party"
  • Some notes on the Trotskyist left in France, by Martin Thomas