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Anticapitalist Left (Belgium)
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The Anticapitalist Left (French: Gauche anticapitaliste, GA), also known as Current for an Anticapitalist Project (Dutch: Stroming voor een Anticapitalistisch Project, SAP), is a Belgian Trotskyist political party. It is the Belgian section of the Fourth International. In the 2010 election, Front des gauches (CP, LCR, PSL and PH) received 1.15% of votes for the Senat.
The party was long led by Ernest Mandel. It publishes La Gauche and Rood.
History
[edit]In May 1971, former members of the Confédération socialiste des travailleurs[a] founded the Ligue révolutionnaire des travailleurs (LRT) (Dutch: Revolutionnaire arbeidersliga (RAL)) as the Belgian section of the Fourth International.[1]
In February 1984, at its seventh congress, the LRT changed its name to Parti ouvrier socialiste (POS) (Dutch: Socialistische arbeiderspartij (SAP)). At the end of 2005, the POS decided to change its French name to the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR).
On 9 October 2017, the LCR decided to partially change its name in French to the Gauche anticapitaliste, while its Dutch name became Stroming voor een Antikapitalistisch Project (SAP).[2]
Electoral results
[edit]Federal Parliament
[edit]Chamber of Representatives
[edit]| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of language group vote |
# of overall seats won | # of language group seats won |
+/- | Notes |
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| 1987 | 31,446 | 0.5 | 0 / 212
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| 1991 | 5,243 | 0.1 | 0 / 212
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Senate
[edit]| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of language group vote |
# of overall seats won | # of language group seats won |
+/- | Notes |
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| 1987 | 32,187 | 0.5 | 0 / 70
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| 1991 | 6,485 | 0.1 | 0 / 70
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Notes
[edit]- ^ Created from the merger of the Parti wallon des travailleurs and the Union de la gauche socialiste
References
[edit]- ^ Abramowicz, Manuel [in French] (2004). La gauche radicale en Belgique francophone (1963-2004) – Impact électoral, politique et social (in French). FOPES-UCLouvain (Faculté ouverte en politique économique et sociale).
- ^ "Ga mee voor een antikapitalistisch project". SAP antikapitalisten (in Flemish). 2017-10-08.
External links
[edit]- Official website Socialistische Arbeiderspartij (in Dutch)
- Official website Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (in French)
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