Alain Krivine is a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France

France

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. He is a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR), which is the French section of the reunified Fourth International

Reunified Fourth International

The Fourth International is a Trotskyist international. In 1963, the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat and the International Committee, reunited, electing a United Secretariat of the Fourth International...

. He was a member of the LCR's political bureau until March 2006, when he resigned from that committee. He was a member of the European Parliament

European Parliament

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 from 1999 to 2004.

Krivine was one of the leaders of the May 1968 revolt in Paris, and was the last of the generation radicalised in the 1960s to serve on the political bureau of the LCR. He was the candidate of the LCR at the French presidential election

French presidential election, 1969

The 1969 French presidential election took place on 1 June and 15 June 1969. It occurred due to the resignation of President Charles de Gaulle on 28 April 1969. Indeed, De Gaulle had decided to consult the voters by referendum about regionalisation and the reform of the Senate, and he had announced...

on 1969, getting 1.05% of the votes.

Selected publications

• “ In Memory of a Rebel”. Telos 44 (Summer 1980). New York: Telos Press.