French NPA idiocy in EU elections

[Die Neue Zeit]

Despite numerous attempts to broker a deal, the French New Anticapitalist Party will not present candidate lists for the European Elections with the Left Front, highlighting divisions among the far-left for the European elections. (http://www.euractiv.com/sections/eu-elections-2014/french-far-left-divided-european-elections-301831)


The New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) plans to go it alone for the European elections. On 2 April, its leader, Olivier Besancenot, unveiled its five candidate lists in France.

Olivier Besancenot, former candidate for the French presidential election in 2002 and 2007, will lead the party’s Ile-de-France list, marking his return to politics.

[MarcusJuniusBrutus]

Divisions among the far-left. Sounds familiar. We seem to hate each other more than we hate the right. I exaggerate, but still, it seems like it sometime.

[Q]

I don't really follow the NPA's development that closely anymore, but I'm strongly suspecting it is a sharply declining force whereas the PCF and its Front du Gauche is maintaining, even building, its position?

If that is so and the NPA seemingly has no strategy forward, it does underline the wrongness of LCR's opportunist liquidation to form the NPA a few years ago. Instead of finally resolving the LCR/LO divide within the Trotskyist spectrum, it moved to the right. Perhaps an LCR merger with LO was never on the cards precisely because of said Trotskyist tradition.

At any rate, if the NPA has no momentum moving forward, it should aim towards joining the Front du Gauche.

[blake 3:17]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Anticapitalist_Party#Alliances_and_splits

A friend who's in the NPA may have some insights.

[Thirsty Crow]

Oh wow much idiocy no common list with Left Front oh what will we do.

It's all lost, them policy based class struggles.

[Die Neue Zeit]

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3490


Yet for many of those who favored some form of unity with the Left Front, this shift was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The strategy of guarded engagement pursued between 2009 and 2011 had rarely offered enough left unity to satisfy these members, yet it had at least offered enough engagement to keep alive hope for greater unity in the future. By contrast, the 2011 shift signaled a turn towards isolation and sectarianism. Consequently, a number of leaders and members stormed out of the Party, publicly chastising it on the way.