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Convergences And Alternative
Convergences and Alternative (abbreviated as C&A) was a French political organization and member of the Left Front (France), Left Front. C&A was initially created on May 17, 2009, as an internal faction of the New Anticapitalist Party (France), NPA, aiming to forge an alliance between the Far-left politics, far left and the anti-liberal left. It left the NPA following the party's February 2011 congress and officially joined the Left Front in June 2011. After five years of existence, the Convergences and Alternative faction decided at its national meeting on February 7, 2014, to dissolve itself and integrate into the Ensemble! movement. Initial objectives within the NPA This faction was distinguished by its desire for alliances in both social struggles and electoral contexts with anti-liberal left groups. The main leaders of this faction came from a split in the Unir (political association), Unir association and sought to organize within the NPA as an internal faction. Its memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Anticapitalist Party (France)
The New Anticapitalist Party ( , NPA ) is a far-left politics in France, far-left political party in France founded in February 2009. The party launched with 9,200 members and was intended to unify the fractured movements of the French radical Left, and attract new activists drawing on the combined strength of far-left parties in the 2002 French presidential election, 2002 presidential elections, where they achieved 10.44% of the vote and 7% in 2007 French presidential election, 2007. The political party is closely associated with postal worker Olivier Besancenot, the main spokesman of the former Trotskyism, Trotskyist party, the Revolutionary Communist League (France), Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), the NPA's main predecessor. In March 2011, and were elected the main spokespersons of the NPA. In May 2012, Myriam Martin supported the candidate of the Left Front (France), Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the French presidential election, 2012 presidential election inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitary Left
Unitary Left (''Gauche unitaire'', GU) was a political party in France that was originally faction (under the name ''Unir'' or Unite) within the Revolutionary Communist League. The party is led by Christian Picquet, a former member of the Revolutionary Communist League. The creation of the party was announced on 8 March 2009 at the founding congress of the Left Front electoral coalition ahead of the 2009 European elections. Picquet, whose opposition faction represented 3.7% at the founding congress of the New Anticapitalist Party, disagreed with the majority's refusal to ally with the Communist-led Left Front for the European elections. As a result, Picquet's small movement integrated the Left Front and Picquet was the third candidate on the coalition's list in the Île-de-France constituency. Ideologically, the party sought to unite all democratic socialists opposed to neo-liberalism under a common front. The GU was part of the Left Front until 2014. On 8 September 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Far-left Politics In France
The Far-left politics, far-left in France encompasses political organizations, movements, and ideologies that are considered to be at the furthest left end of the political spectrum. It includes a variety of political traditions, such as revolutionary socialism, anarchism in France, anarchism, Maoism in France, Maoism, and Trotskyism in France, Trotskyism. Historically, the far-left has distinguished itself by opposing the reformist left represented by the French Communist Party, PCF and the French Section of the Workers' International, SFIO, advocating instead for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a classless, egalitarian society. History Origins The roots of the far-left in France can be traced back to the French Revolution (1789–1799), particularly to the ideas of Gracchus Babeuf and the "Conspiracy of the Equals" in 1796. Babeuf envisioned a classless society and sought to overthrow the French Directory, Directory to achieve "perfect equality." His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensemble (political Party, France)
Ensemble may refer to: Art * Architectural ensemble * ''Ensemble'' (Kendji Girac album), 2015 * ''Ensemble'' (Ensemble album), 2006 * Ensemble (band), a project of Olivier Alary * Ensemble cast (drama, comedy) * Ensemble (musical theatre), also known as the chorus * ''Ensemble'' (Stockhausen), 1967 group-composition project by Karlheinz Stockhausen * Musical ensemble Mathematics and science * Distribution ensemble or probability ensemble (cryptography) * Ensemble Kalman filter * Ensemble learning (statistics and machine learning) * Ensembl genome database project * Neural ensemble, a population of nervous system cells (or cultured neurons) involved in a particular neural computation * Statistical ensemble (mathematical physics) ** Climate ensemble ** Ensemble average (statistical mechanics) ** Ensemble averaging (machine learning) ** Ensemble (fluid mechanics) ** Ensemble forecasting (meteorology) ** Quantum statistical mechanics, the study of statistical ensembles o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alternatives
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FASE
''Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich'' is a contemporary dance choreography by Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, created in 1982 for two dancers to the phase music compositions of Steve Reich. ''Fase'' is De Keersmaeker's second composition, which she began working on in 1980 during her stay in the United States and completed upon her return to Brussels the following year. The full version premiered in Brussels on March 18, 1982, at the (''Beursschouwburg''). This work is considered a landmark piece in De Keersmaeker's career and a major choreography in the global contemporary dance scene. This piece consists of four distinct movements made up of three duets and one solo, directly named after four works by Steve Reich — '' Piano Phase'' (1967), '' Violin Phase'' (1967), ''Come Out'' (1966), and ''Clapping Music'' (1972) — each of which can be performed independently or in combination. De Keersmaeker danced the piece for years alongside her col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anticapitalist Left (France)
Anticapitalist Left (, GA) was a French organisation (2011–2015), member of the Left Front from 2012 to its dissolution in 2015. It was founded in November 2011 as a public fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), by the main animators of the former "B" position, which represented 40% of the internal votes in July 2011. GA defines itself as 'eco-socialist'. Within the NPA, the fraction argued in favour of the unity of left anticapitalist and antiliberal movements in France, considering that the formation of the Left Front, composed initially of the French Communist Party, the Left Party (a breakaway from the Socialist Party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon) and later a small split from the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), Unitary Left, had created the basis for a realignment of forces to the left of the Socialist Party. Between the end of 2011 and the middle of 2012, many supporters of this fraction within the NPA left the party or ceased to be active within it. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 French Presidential Election
Presidential elections in France, Presidential elections were held in France on 22 April 2012 (or 21 April in some overseas departments and territories), with a second round Two-round system, run-off held on 6 May (or 5 May for those same territories) to elect the President of France (who is also ''ex officio'' one of the Co-Princes of Andorra, two joint heads of state of Andorra, a sovereign state). The incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was running for a second five-year term for which he was eligible for under the Constitution of France. The first round ended with the selection of François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy as second round participants, as neither of them received a majority of votes cast in the first round. Hollande won the runoff with 51.64% of the vote to Sarkozy's 48.36%. It was the second time in French history and the first time since the 1981 French presidential election, 1981 election that a President seeking reelection was denied a second term, and the only time th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party ( , PS) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left to Left-wing politics, left-wing List of political parties in France, political party in France. It holds Social democracy, social democratic and Pro-Europeanism, pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, along with the Rally for the Republic in the late 20th century, and with the Union for a Popular Movement in the early 2000s. It is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists, Progressive Alliance and Socialist International. The PS was founded in 1969 from a merger of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the Convention of Republican Institutions led by François Mitterrand, and other groups. In the 1970s, the PS surpassed the French Communist Party, Communist Party's share of the left-wing vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 European Parliament Election In France
European Parliament elections were held in France on Sunday 7 June 2009 to elect the 72 French Member of the European Parliament, Members of the European Parliament. Due to the entry of Romania and Bulgaria in the European Union in 2007, the number of seats allocated to France was revised from 78 to 72 seats, a loss of 6 seats. France now represents only 9.8% of all European MEPs compared to 12.5% in 2004 and 19.8% in 1979, following the 1979 European Parliament election, first European election. The turnout in European elections in France has almost always declined, with the sole exception of an increase in 1994, falling from 60.7% turnout in the 1979 election to 43.1% in the latest election in 2004. Candidates for parliamentary parties Opinion polls Results Nicolas Sarkozy's governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) won a pleasing result, the first time the presidential party had won since the first European elections in 1979. Compared to the party's disastrous 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Party (France)
The Left Party (French: ', PG) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left, Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in France, founded in 2009 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marc Dolez after their departure from the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS). The PG claims to bring together personalities and groups from different political traditions; it claims a socialist, ecologist and Republicanism, republican orientation. Politically located between the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party and the French Communist Party, the Left Party intends to federate all the sensitivities of the anti-Economic liberalism, liberal left—which they also call "the other left"—within the same alliance. In 2008, the PG joined forces with the Communist Party of the United Left and six other left-wing and far-left organizations in the coalition of the Left Front (France), Left Front, of which Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the candidate for the president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Communist Party
The French Communist Party (, , PCF) is a Communism, communist list of political parties in France, party in France. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its Member of the European Parliament, MEPs sit with The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL group. The PCF was founded in 1920 by Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist members of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) who supported the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Russian Revolution. It became a member of the Communist International, and followed a Marxist-Leninist line under the leadership of Maurice Thorez. In response to the threat of fascism, the PCF joined the socialist Popular Front (France), Popular Front which won the 1936 election, but it did not participate in government. During World War II, it was outlawed by the occupying Germans and became a key element of the French Resistance, Resistance. The PCF participated in the provisional government of the Liberation of France, Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
