Alain Krivine

Alain Krivine, Ankara, January 2005

Alain Krivine (born July 10, 1941 in Paris ) is a French Trotskyist politician.

biography

Born of a Jewish-Ukrainian family who emigrated to France at the end of the 19th century due to anti-Semitic pogroms, he married Michèle Martinet, teacher and daughter of Gilles Martinet , journalist and former socialist member of the European Parliament, one of the founders of the PSU (Parti socialiste unifié) and ambassador to Rome. He is the cousin of the conductor Emmanuel Krivine .

As a student he attended the Condorcet high school in Paris, then studied at the humanities faculty in Paris, where he acquired a license and a DES ( diplôme d'études supérieures ) in history.

During his activity as an auxiliary teacher for history at Voltaire-Gymnasium, he became editorial secretary at Hachette-Verlag (1966-68). Known as a figure of the May 1968 movement , Krivine completed his military service in Verdun in the 150th Infantry Regiment and then returned to Paris, where he became a journalist for the weekly newspaper Rouge of the Ligue Communiste / Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR) from 1970 .

At the side of Olivier Besancenot and Roseline Vachetta , he was one of the three mouthpieces of the now defunct LCR. Today Krivine is a member of the Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste .

Political life

Career

• 1955 Joined the youth organization of the Parti communiste français (PCF)
• 1958–65 member of the National Committee of the Union of Communist Students in France (Union des étudiants communistes) and secretary at the Sorbonne
• 1965 Participation in the founding of the “Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire”, dissolved in 1968 by the government
• Exclusion from the PCF in 1966 for refusing to support François Mitterrand's candidacy and for his Trotskyist positions
• 1969 presidential candidate during military service
• 1969 Participation in the establishment of the "Ligue communiste", dissolved in 1973 by the government
• 1974 member of the Politburo of the LCR and member of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth International
• 1974 candidate for the presidency, for this purpose establishment of the Front communiste révolutionnaire
• 1999–2004 MEP, elected from the LO ( Lutte Ouvrière ) list - LCR
• 2006 resignation from the LCR Politburo

Presidential election

• 1969 candidate of the "Ligue communiste", receipt of 239,106 votes (1.06% of all votes cast, 7th and last of the elections)
• 1974 candidate of the "Front communiste révolutionnaire", receipt of 93,990 votes (0.37% of all votes cast, 9th of 12 candidates)
• 1981 candidate of the LCR, but without obtaining the 500 necessary signatures from officials, therefore no officially approved candidacy.

Web links

Commons : Alain Krivine  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alain Krivine in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Alain Krivine in the database of Members of the European Parliament