The tributes to the former leader of the Revolutionary Communist League came, in the Saturday, all currents of the left.
Le Monde with AFP
“Alain will not have yielded to the pressure of” it will pass you with the age “. Hi, old, and thank you for everything. We continue the fight!” It is by these words that the new anticapitalist party (NPA) paid tribute to Alain Krivine in a statement. Whoever was the boss for thirty years of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) – who will give the NPA in 2009 – died on Saturday, March 12, at the age of 80 years. The disappearance of the former leader of Trotskism in France has generated a rain of tributes from the left, one month of the first round of the presidential election to which Mr. Krivine had appeared twice.
Co-founder of the LCR in 1974, Alain Krivine was called “president” by his friends. “I still hear that the most beautiful way to celebrate the memory of the missing is to perpetuate their fight. (…) Doing it without you will never have the same flavor,” reacted Olivier Besancenot, who militated to the LCR then at the NPA at its side. Words listed by the NPA candidate in the presidential election, Philippe Poutou.
“Change the world”
“Emotion and sorrow. A thought afflicted to his family and fraternal health at the entire Trotskyist movement,” commented on the candidate of France unsuitable (LFI) to the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Another candidate for the Elysee, for the third time, Nathalie Arthaud (Workers’ Fighting) echoed the NPA by greeting the memory of a “sixty-eighty who has never denied his anticapitalist and revolutionary convictions” .
“He was one of the votes of the political history of the left”, according to Fabien Roussel, the Communist candidate, whose campaign director, Ian Brossat, also reacted: “Everyone has not Had the chance to have Trotskyist parents. I had the happiness of Us Alain Krivine when I was mome. He defended his ideal with a beautiful constancy. “
The member Eric Coquel (LFI), former LCR, paid tribute to his “comrade” who “was one of the great figures of the revolutionary movement, human and talented spokesman”. “With Jack Ralgue, Alain Krivine was one of the figures that made me want to do politics to change the world,” said another “unsuitable” deputy, Clementine AUtain.
” A human and political paste that does not exist much “
“The revolutionary activist present in all struggles, marked by his convictions,” also said Pierre Moscovici on Twitter. “The man was cultivated, full of humor. He was made of a human and political paste that no longer exists”, added the former Socialist Minister and European Commissioner. Olivier Faure, the spokesman of the Socialist Party, felt that “after the death of Henri Weber [former executive of the Communist League, death in 2020], it is a new page of the history of the League which turns “.
Born on July 10, 1941 in Paris, Alain Krivine had come from a family of Jewish little bourgeoisie, immigrant from Central Europe. Bibernated as his brothers with communist student movements, he was one of the founders in 1966 of the Revolutionary Communist Youth (JCR), and became one of the figures of May-68, alongside Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Jacques Sauvageot and Alain Geismar. Its activism is worth it to be imprisoned one month to health and causes the dissolution of JCR.
It is then appointed by the communist league, freshly created, as a candidate for the 1969 presidential election. One year after May-68, the whole of France discovers him, curly hair, glasses on the nose, and his program : Destroy the capitalist order and redistribute riches. It only obtains 1.06% of the vote. It is also in 1974, at the head of the CLC, but fails with 0.37% of the votes. Journalist at the Red Weekly, the Party Body, and European MP between 1999 and 2004, he resigned from the LCR Policy Bureau in 2006, while remaining his spokesperson until his dissolution in 2009.