Rightward Shift of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste?

[Zeus the Moose]

I figured it makes sense to spin off the discussion of the NPA into a new thread, so that the original one continues to be primarily about the IMT.

In terms of alliances with either the Parti de Gauche or the Parti Socialiste, it's my understanding that there have been some feelers in the direction of making alliances for the 2010 regional elections. One one level, however, this is nothing new, if my understanding of how the two-round election system works in France. Even if standing on their own lists in the first round, most of the far left parties (former LCR and the LO) sometimes make tactical alliances with more "mainstream left" parties. I don't know much about the specifics of this, and one could definitely argue that this is a questionable tactic to begin with, but making alliances in this manner wouldn't be new to the NPA, it seems.

However, I do agree with most of the folks who have raised concerns with the NPA's possible trajectory, particularly in light up the FI's upcoming world congress.

[Die Neue Zeit]

It boils down to tactics, methinks. In the Euro elections, it was ultra-leftist for the NPA to run separately from the Left Front, since that front was, within and without the EUL-NGL, in no condition to cozy up to the SP and its [EU] Party of European Socialists affiliation.

Strategically, however, nobody in the Left Front is committed to the "politico-political" demands of the DOTP (recallability of all officials, jury sovereignty, average workers' wage, combined legislative-administrative power, militias, etc.). That is the problem identified in Macnair's book Revolutionary Strategy.