France: New Anticapitalist Party

[Djehuti]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Anticapitalist_Party
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1498

What do you think of it?

[Yehuda Stern]

The good thing is that it's probably only slightly worse than the LCR. Then again, that's probably bad enough.

[Mather]

Being an anarchist myself I see any attempt to play the game of the ruling capitalist class, by participating in elections, as a waste of time.

But even from a reformist or a leninist point of view, whats the point?

There is already a host of 'revolutionary' parties such as Worker's Struggle (LO), the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) and the old French Communist Party (PCF) that stand in elections already. The LCR is the biggest party in terms of activism and in terms of getting the highest number of votes in elections, so why did the LCR leadership decide to set up yet another party?

With the current economic crisis and the resulting attacks on the working class and poor that will follow, such as home reposessions, laying off of workers, pay cuts, cuts in social services etc... would it not be better to put time, effort and resources into these issues rather than waste time with elections.

[Q]

While I applaud setting up a broad mass workers party by the initiative of the LCR, I do not think that dissolving your own revolutionary organisation (like the LCR leadership is planning to) is the right way to go. It would be a setback for developing the forces of Marxism. That being said, we (Gauche Revolutionaire) fully support this initiative in France and work to build it aswell (without dissolving ourselves :lol: ).

[chebol]

More here: http://links.org.au/node/697

[RedScare]

Very hopeful. I think it's a good sign for France, the fact that the radical left is expanding.