French NPA idiocy in EU elections
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Oh wow much idiocy no common list with Left Front oh what will we do.
It's all lost, them policy based class struggles.