Ligue trotskyste de France

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The Ligue trotskyste de France is a French Trotskyist group. It is a section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) or "Spartacist" tendency.

The LTF was founded in the mid 1970s, reportedly after members of the Spartacist League (US) started proslytizating in France. The LTF campaigned against the Union of the Left during the French legislative election, 1978, considering the coalition a popular front. In the 1981 elections it offered the French Communist Party leader Georges Marchais "savagely critical support" if he ran against François Mitterrand. They later condemned him for keeping the PFC in the Union of the Left.^[1]

In 1980 the LTF launched a periodical, Le Bolshevik edited by William Cazenove. Through the 1980s the group continued to support the positions of the international Spartacist movement, i.e., opposition to Solidarity, support of the Soviet war in Afghanistan and opposition to Khomeini.^[1]

References

External links

• Archive of recent issues of Le Bolshevik

Political parties in France
National Assembly (577 seats)	Socialist Party (280) The Republicans (194) Union of Democrats and Independents (29) New Centre 8 Radical Party 6 Democratic European Force 4 Tahoera'a Huiraatira 3 Caledonia Together 2 Centrist Alliance 2 National Centre of Independents and Peasants 1 Territories in Movement 1 Miscellaneous left2 (22) Europe Écologie – The Greens2 (17) Miscellaneous right (15) Left Front (10) French Communist Party 9 Left Party 3 Radical Party of the Left2 (12) Citizen and Republican Movement (3) Others (3) National Front–RBM (2) The Centre for France (2)
Senate (343 seats)	The Republicans (126) Socialist Party (117) Union of Democrats and Independents (44) French Communist Party (17) Radical Party of the Left2 (11) Europe Écologie – The Greens2 (10) National Front (2)
European Parliament (74 seats)	National Front (ENF, 24) The Republicans (EPP, 20) Socialist Party (S&D, 12) Europe Écologie – The Greens2 (G–EFA, 6) Democratic Movement (ALDE, 4) Union of Democrats and Independents (ALDE, 2) Radical Party 1 Centrist Alliance 1 Left Front (EUL–NGL, 4) French Communist Party 1 Left Party 1 Communist Party of Réunion 1 Nous Citoyens (ALDE, 1) Radical Party of the Left2 (S&D, 1)
Extra-parliamentary/Local	United Republic Movement for France Arise the Republic National Centre of Independents and Peasants Abertzaleen Batasuna Alsace First Breton Democratic Union Breton Party Christian Democratic Party1 Ecology Generation Independent Ecological Movement Independent Workers' Party Liberal Democratic Party New Anticapitalist Party Occitan Party Pè a Corsica Corsica Libera The Progressives1 Republican Left of Catalonia Savoyan League Savoy Region Movement Unitarian Left Unser Land Lutte Ouvrière
Notes:1,2,3 and4. Numbers denote party affiliations, 1 is for parties linked to The Republicans, formerly the Union for a Popular Movement, 2 is for parties linked to the Socialist Party's Presidential majority.