New Anticapitalist Party
New Anticapitalist Party Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | NPA |
| Leader | Collective leadership (Central committee) |
| Main spokesperson | Christine Poupin |
| Founded | 8 February 2009 |
| Preceded by | Revolutionary Communist League |
| Headquarters | 2, rue Richard-Lenoir 93100 Montreuil |
| Membership (2018) | 2,000 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | New Popular Front (since 2024) |
| European affiliation | European Anti-Capitalist Left |
| International affiliation | Fourth International |
| Colours | Red |
| National Assembly | 1 / 577 |
| Senate | 0 / 343 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 72 |
| Regional councils | 2 / 1,758 |
| Website | |
| nouveaupartianticapitaliste nouveaupartianticapitaliste | |
Constitution of France Parliament; government; president | |
The New Anticapitalist Party (French: Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste [nuvo paʁti ɑ̃tikapitalist], NPA [ɛn pe a]) 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 the French radical Left, and attract new activists drawing on the combined strength of far-left parties in the 2002 presidential elections, where they achieved 10.44% of the vote and 7% in 2007.
The political party is closely associated with postal worker Olivier Besancenot, the main spokesman of the former Trotskyist party, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), the NPA's main predecessor. In March 2011, Myriam Martin and Christine Poupin were elected the main spokespersons of the NPA. In May 2012, Myriam Martin supported the candidate of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 presidential election instead of the NPA candidate, a worker and union activist at Ford's car plant in Bordeaux, Philippe Poutou, who came eighth in the first round with 411,160 votes, 1.15% of the total votes. She left the NPA in July 2012.
In December 2022, it the party split into two roughly equal groups. Two main reasons for the split are to end to the internal disagreements that have plagued the NPA for many years and to employ different strategies towards NUPES (the New Ecological and Social People's Union).