Text from our comrade Eric Lerner http://www.luxemburgism.lautre.net/spip.php?article50 In french section of RevLeft there is another text from another comrade on the question of NPA SALUD
Do the Luxemburgists join the NPA? If not, why don't they fight for democratic reforms within the party?
Our comrades (there are more luxemburgists than us) in France are thinking on these questions. There are different points of view and every comrade is free to decide what is better. We defend the freedom of action (experimentation) too, you know. In Portugal, our comrades participate in the Bloco, by example. In Spain, we reject this model of organizations. The central question, in my opinion, is that the NPA is not a new experience. Other organizations like that there are and there were. So, we should learn from these experiences. In this sense, I don´t think that the NPA is a good model. It´s only the trotskyst model. In Spain, the LCR members have created an NPA too (Izquierda Anticapitalista). But in Spain they aren´t so strong. So, they don´t want collaborate in a new organization with other trots groups, as En Lucha (the IST organization). This shows the real and central question: the USFI wants create ITS mass-organizations, not mass organizations. This is the "new" line of the USFI. You can see some of our debates in these links: http://luxemburgism.forumr.net/polit...x-lcr-t228.htm (in Spanish) http://luxemburgism.forumr.net/polit...u-npa-t236.htm (in French) All of members of the Forum who participate in these debates aren´t members of the ILN. If you wants, I can explain more my opinions. But in Spanish. SALUD
Well as far as I know the NPA tried to put the trotskyist side of the LCR away from the new party. In an interview with Besancenot (one hour long, on Daniel Mermet's "La-bas si j'y suis", I may post a link if anybody has a good understanding of French) he clearly said that he wanted lefties from all trends to join into an anticapitalist union, nothing more. "Trotskyism" and "communism" are scary little words for most people, and that's why the LRC never gained much support.
"Trotskyism" and "communism" are scary little words for most people, and that's why the LRC never gained much support. So how do you explain the Communist Party of France? As long as we're just talking about "scary names". Personally i would have rathered the "Revolutionary Anticapitalist party" which was the main alternative to the current name.
The Communist Party of France is dead my lad :/. It hardly have enough power to be an opposition party.
