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Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (Political party, France)

NPA

Flag of NPA - Image by Tomislav Todorović, 15 February 2024
Derived from the SVG image of the party logo from Wikipedia

Presentation of NPA
Flag of NPA
- Former flag of NPA

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Presentation of NPA

New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste; NPA) was founded in 2009 as the successor of previously self-dissolved Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue communiste révolutionnaire; LCR), a Trotskyist party. The process was aimed at creation of a broader far-left political movement, which would represent not only the Trotskyists (very fragmented themselves, the LCR having been just one of such groups), but also the other revolutionary traditions. To ensure that all of those participate in making the decisions on the party policies, their representatives are elected to the National Political Council at the congresses on a proportional basis. The party has no individual leaders: it is run collectively by the Executive Committee, with no permanent nominations to any position, including the spokespersons who are elected to represent the party in public.

While the LCR was a member of the Fourth International, the NPA is a permanent observer, with the limited participating rights (discussing without voting). The party has suffered a number of splits, starting with the Unitarian Left (Gauche Unitaire) which left the NPA a month after its foundation in order to join the Left Front coalition, as the NPA had refused that. The last split, having occurred at the 5th Congress in December 2022, has torn the party into two from the top to the bottom due to disagreement about its future (mainly, the degree of independent operation of the factions and the co-operation with other leftist parties and organizations). Both groups still use the same party name and symbols, while operating completely independently, a situation which currently seems to remain unresolved for an indefinitely long time.

[Sources: New Anticapitalist Party at Wikipedia (in English), New Anticapitalist Party at Wikipedia (in French), Fourth International at Wikipedia (in English) - Organizations with permanent observer status]

Tomislav Todorović, 15 February 2024

Flag of NPA

Flag of NPA and variants - Images by Tomislav Todorović, 15 February 2024
Derived from the SVG image of the party logo from Wikipedia

Several different flags of the "Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste" (NPA) or "New Anti-capitalistic Party", as seen in Paris, France c. December 2023: photo.

William Garrison, 11 February 2024

The party logo is a hand holding a megaphone, with the initials NPA below and the full name of the party inscribed at the bottom [source: New Anticapitalist Party at Wikipedia (in French)]. On the current flags, the name is inscribed in two rows, the words NOUVEAU PARTI above the word ANTICAPITALISTE, the latter in a boldervariant of the typeface. The main party flag displays the logo in white, each of the separate shapes fimbriated black, on a red field: photo in Midi Libre newspaper website on 2023-04-13; photo on Challenges magazine website on 2023-11-01; photo on L'Anticapitaliste magazine website on 2024-02-03.

There is also a Feminist version of the flag, with the same logo on a purple field: photo on Challenges magazine website on 2023-11-01; photo on L'Anticapitaliste magazine website on 2024-02-03; photo on Ouest-France newspaper website on 2023-05-04; photo on NPA, section Seine-Maritime website - Article published on 2023-06-15.

There is as well as an LGBTI version, with the field in rainbow colors arranged vertically, with red at the hoist: photo on L'Anticapitaliste magazine website on 2024-02-03; photo on NPA, section Seine-Maritime website - Article published on 2023-06-15; photo on Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire website on 2022-03-17; photo NPA website on 2022-11-16.

The last of these was actually the first one that appeared, as early as in 2015 [photo on NPA LGBTI at Facebook ], while the other two have been recorded in use since early 2023. There are also numerous examples of joint use of two flags or all three of them.

Tomislav Todorović, 15 February 2024

Former flag of NPA

Former flag of NPA - Image by Tomislav Todorović, 15 February 2024

On the earlier version of the party flag, the party name was inscribed in a single row below the initials NPA, the word ANTICAPITALISTE in bolder text than the other two words there as well; in the top fly, there was a white stripe with curved edges, stretching between the top and fly edges, and a small white triangle with the edges in parallel with the top and fly edges of the flag and the outer edge of the stripe and rounded top fly corner; these two shapes look like a visualisation of the sound waves coming out of the megaphone: photo on Commun COMMUNE blog on 2016-12-30; photo on NPA website on 2021-06-28; photo on L'Anticapitaliste magazine website on 2022-06-03; photo L'Anticapitaliste magazine website on 2022-12-07].

This design was adopted when the party was founded and has been in continuous use to this day, either alone (photos on Wikimedia Commons - Media related to the NPA; photo on Flickr on 2010-05-09; photo on Flickr on 2010-09-04) or jointly with the LGBTI version after it was introduced (photo from NPA Poitiers Vienne at Facebook).

Tomislav Todorović, 15 February 2024