How the Mediterranean Anti-Capitalist Conference defended French imperialism http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/meda-m10.shtml

The May 7-8 Mediterranean Anti-Capitalist Conference in Marseille, called by France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), was a gathering of pro-capitalist parties run in the interests of French imperialism. The conference was billed as an opportunity for “different organizations to know each other better, to reinforce their ties, and to consider common international campaigns.”It passed over the French-NATO war in Libya in near-total silence, welcomed parties hostile to workers’ revolutionary struggles in Tunisia and Egypt, and backed various Mediterranean and Middle Eastern separatist groups, in a move apparently aimed largely at Turkey.

At the conference, several dozen representatives attended closed-door sessions Saturday afternoon and Sunday. A public meeting Saturday evening gathered a few hundred people, who listened to speeches by NPA spokesman Olivier Besancenot and other leading NPA figures.It is almost beside the point to ask whether the conference reflected discussions that NPA leader Alain Krivine had with the French state, i.e., with figures like his friend and ex-comrade Henri Weber, now a high-ranking member of the big-business Socialist Party (PS). Its pro-imperialist orientation emerged directly from the politics of the NPA and its sister parties, who insist on tying the working class politically to imperialism.