Alain Krivine
, prominent leader of
the extreme left
and former presidential candidate, died on Saturday at the age of 80, his wife announced. Leader of Trotskyism in France, he was for three decades the visible head of
the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR),
which co-founded in 1974.
"I still hear you say that the best way to celebrate the memory of the deceased is to perpetuate their fight. (...) Doing it without you will never taste the same again," Olivier Besancenot, who was a member of the LCR and , later, in the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) together with Krivine.
"Emotion and pain. My condolences to his family and a fraternal greeting to the entire Trotskyist movement," said the presidential candidate of rebellious France,
Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Born on July 10, 1941 in Paris, Alain Krivine came from a family of the Jewish petty bourgeoisie, immigrants from Central Europe. Nurtured like his brothers by the communist student movements, he was one of the founders, in 1966, of the Communist Youth Revolutionary (JCR), and became one of the most prominent figures of May 68, along with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Jacques Sauvageot and Alain Geismar. His activism earned him a month in prison and led to the dissolution of the JCR.
He was later nominated by the newly created Communist League as a candidate for the
1969 presidential elections,
winning 1.06% of the vote. He also ran in 1974, at the head of the LCR, but failed with 0.37% of the vote. the votes.
Journalist for the weekly
Rouge
, the party's organ, and MEP between 1999 and 2004, he resigned from the LCR's political bureau in 2006, being the movement's spokesman until its dissolution in 2009.
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