Toronto, February 18, 2009.
The founding conference of the Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA) was held just outside
Paris over the weekend of February 6th to 8th.
The conference marks the conclusion of a process initiated following the encouraging election results (1.5 million votes) of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire's (LCR) candidate in the 2007 presidential
elections, 34 year-old postal worker Olivier Besancenot. This process has involved thousands of activists and
interested individuals organized in hundreds of committees across France. The new party begins its life with some 10,000 members and in a context of deepening economic crisis and a big wave of strikes and protests against the
hard-Right government of president Nicolas Sarkozy.
A report-back from two Toronto-based socialists who attended the founding conference and a
Paris-based NPA member and teacher's union activist.
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