The Revolutionary Left (french: Gauche révolutionnaire) is a

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political party in

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, primarily based around northern French towns such as

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. It is affiliated to the

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History

The origins of the Revolutionary Left lie in the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), from which its members were expelled after winning the majority of that organisation's youth section, ''Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire'' to its ideas. At expulsion in 1992, it had roughly 50-60 members. After one member spotted a poster for the October 1992

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(YRE) demonstration in Brussels, members joined that demonstration where they met representatives of the Committee for a Workers' International. They eventually joined the CWI after discussions.

New Anticapitalist Party

In 2009 the Revolutionary Left participated in the foundation process of the

New Anticapitalist Party The New Anticapitalist Party (french: Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste , abbreviated NPA) is a 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 ...

(NPA) initiated by the LCR. The party became a current within the NPA while continuing independent work. In February 2012 the party left the NPA, which, due to its party structures and leadership, the Revolutionary Left no longer considers to represent a viable step towards a new mass workers' party.Pourquoi la GR a quitté le NPA ?
, ''Gauche révolutionnaire'', 9 February 2012.

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Trotskyist organizations in France