Archive for April 11th, 2012
Elections, anti-capitalism and class struggle in France
Posted by John, April 11th, 2012 - under Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Left Front, New Anticapitalist Party.
Tags: France
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In the short term, the key problem for revolutionaries is how to relate to the workers attracted to Mélenchon, how to debate demands, joint struggles and illusions, and how to win new revolutionary activists. This debate has divided the NPA deeply. On one extreme there is the “Mélenchon ate my hamster” brigade who cannot imagine anything positive about Mélenchon’s success and flood email lists with pathetic anecdotes showing him in a bad light. On the other extreme, a significant faction of comrades is talking of breaking away from the NPA soon, to set up a less sectarian grouping.