The New Anticapitalist Party 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.
During a demonstration against pension reform in October 2010 in Paris.
Olivier Christophe Besancenot is a French left-wing political figure and trade unionist, and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party from 2009 to 2011.
Besancenot in 2012
Besancenot supporters, brandishing the red flags of the Communist Revolutionary League, overflowing in front of La Mutualité in Paris, where Olivier Besancenot was holding a meeting