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Alain Krivine
Alain Krivine in 2005
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 1999 – 19 July 2004
Parliamentary group	The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Personal details
Born	(1941-07-10)10 July 1941 Paris, France
Died	12 March 2022(2022-03-12) (aged 80) Paris, France
Political party	Revolutionary Communist League (1974–2009) New Anticapitalist Party (2009–2022)
Education	Lycée Condorcet
Alma mater	Faculté des lettres de Paris

Alain Krivine (French: [a.lɛ̃ kʁi.vin]; 10 July 1941 – 12 March 2022) was a French Trotskyist leader.

Early life

Krivine was born in July 1941 in Paris, France, the child of Pierre Léon Georges Krivine, a stomatologist, and Esther Lautman, the sister of French Resistance fighter Albert Lautman. The Krivine family originally came from Ukraine, having fled to France during the antisemitic pogroms of the Russian Empire in the 19th century.

Career

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 LC at the French presidential election of 1969, getting 1.05% of the votes. He released his first book that same year "La Farce électorale" (The Electoral Farce). In 1974, he participated in the founding of the Front Communiste Révolutionnaire which became the LCR in that same year. He was the FCR's presidential candidate in 1974, coming in ninth place with around 0.37% of votes. He released his second book in 1974 titled "Questions sur la révolution" (Questions on the révolution).

He was a member of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), which is the French section of the reunified 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 from 1999 to 2004.

He wrote the preface for André Fichaut's 2003 autobiography "Sur le pont. Souvenirs d'un ouvrier trotskiste breton" (On the bridge. Memories of a Breton Trotskyist worker). Later in 2006, he wrote an autobiography titled "Ça te passera avec l'age." (That'll go away with age)

Death

Krivine died on 12 March 2022 in Paris, at the age of 80. His funeral was held in the Père Lachaise Cemetery on 21 March 2022. Over 2000 people attended it including many left-wing and far-left figures, including: Jean-Luc Mélenchon former presidential candidate of La France Insoumise (LFI), LFI deputies Adrien Quatennens and Alexis Corbière, former LCR presidential candidate Olivier Besancenot, former NPA presidential candidate Philippe Poutou, journalist Edwy Plenel and the former militant and syndicalist Gérard Filoche.

References

1. Plenel, Edwy (15 March 2022). "The Integrity of a Revolutionary: Alain Krivine, 1941-2022". Archived from the original on 29 March 2023.
2. Plenel, Edwy (16 March 2022). "Alain Krivine: The integrity of a revolutionary". Archived from the original on 4 October 2023.
3. "Alain Krivine, ancien leader de la Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, est mort à l'âge de 80 ans" [Alain Krivine, former leader of the Revolutionary Communist League, has died at the age of 80]. 20 minutes (in French). 12 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
4. Telo, Laurent (22 March 2022). "Dernier hommage à Alain Krivine, figure tutélaire de l'extrême-gauche" [Final homage to Alain Krivine, major figure of the far-left]. Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 11 November 2022.
5. Boiteau, Victor. "Adieu à Alain Krivine au Père-Lachaise: tristes trotskistes" [Goodbye to Alain Krivine at Père Lachaise: sad trotskyists]. Libération (in French). Archived from the original on 1 April 2023.

Further reading

• (in French) Alain Krivine quitte le bureau politique de la LCR - Article in Le Monde on his resignation. 4 March 2006.

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