Lutte Ouvrière
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| Party leader | Nathalie Arthaud , Arlette Laguiller |
| founding | 1939 |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Alignment | Trotskyism , Marxism , Communism |
| Colours) | red |
| Parliament seats | 0/577 |
| Number of members | 8000 |
| Website | www.lutte-ouvriere.org |
Lutte Ouvrière ( LO ; German workers' struggle ) is a Trotskyist party in France .
history
The forerunner of the LO, the Groupe Communiste (IVème Internationale) ( German Communist Group (Fourth International)), later Union Communiste (Trotskyste) (Communist Union (Trotskyist)) emerged around 1939 around the Romanian immigrant David Korner (code name: Barta, 1914-1976); it was characterized by its strictly conspiratorial way of working and its almost exclusive focus on company and union work. The organization was able to survive the German occupation of France from 1940–1944 and played a leading role in the great Renault strike in April 1947. The group largely disintegrated in 1949, and Korner / Barta withdrew from politics. Some remaining activists founded the group Voix Ouvrière ("Workers' Voice") in 1956 , from which the LO emerged after an organization ban as a result of May 68 in France .
Your presidential candidate since 1974 was the now retired programmer and bank clerk Arlette Laguiller . Your election results in France are not matched by any other Trotskyist party in Western Europe. Their best results are in the industrial regions of the north, in the Paris region and in some regions of western France. Together with the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR), another Trotskyist party, it drew up joint lists for the 1999 and 2004 European elections and the 2004 regional elections. In the European elections in 1999, the list reached 5.2 percent and moved into the European Parliament with five seats . In the French presidential election in 2002 , party spokeswoman Arlette Laguiller achieved 5.7 percent, in the 2007 election 1.3 percent.
On December 5, 2010, Nathalie Arthaud was chosen as the LO presidential candidate for the 2012 French presidential election . On April 22, 2012, it only achieved 0.56% of the vote. For the presidential election in 2017 Arthaud came in again and was able to improve slightly to 0.64%.
activities
The main focus of the activities of the LO lies in the operational work, in addition to the weekly newspaper of the same name (circulation approx. 15,000 copies) and the theoretically oriented monthly magazine Lutte de Classe ("Klassekampf"), the party publishes several hundred regular local company and industry newspapers. In Martinique and Guadeloupe there is a sister organization called Combat Ouvrier , with other circles in Haiti, the Ivory Coast, the USA, Great Britain, Turkey and Spain these form the Union Communiste Internationaliste . The number of members of the LO is not exactly known, it is likely to be between 1,000 and 1,500 full members, in addition, several thousand sympathizers involved in regular activities can be assumed. Every year at Pentecost, the LO has been organizing the Fête de Lutte Ouvrière in the Paris region since 1968 , one of the largest meetings of the radical and revolutionary left in Western Europe, where up to 50,000 people gather.
Criticism and divisions
Critics within the French left accuse the LO of an ideologically motivated overestimation of the working class ( ouvrierisme ) and economism as well as the neglect of other areas (such as anti-racism and the women's movement ) as well as an authoritarian internal structure (under its leadership member Robert Bacia alias “Hardy” or “Roger Girardot ” ) and an exaggeratedly conspiratorial behavior. In its own ranks there is an organized minority, the Fraction L'Etincelle (“The Funke”), other internal critics, the Voix des Travailleurs group (VdT, “Voice of the Workers”) were excluded from the party in 1997, and the VdT joined 2000 joined the LCR , which has since merged into the left-wing Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste collection movement .
Web links
- Lutte Ouvrière
- Dieter Wild: Fire the managers! The "Tolle": How Arlette Laguiller, the "Queen of the Trotskyists", animated the French election campaign . In: Die Zeit , April 18, 2002.
- Combat Ouvrier website
Individual evidence
- ↑ La très instructive publication des comptes 2017 des partis politiques par la CNCCFP January 25, 2019
- ^ Anthony Torres: Lutte Ouvrière starts nationalist presidential election campaign. International Committee of the Fourth International , March 30, 2012, accessed April 9, 2012 .