New Anticapitalist Party

The New Anticapitalist Party (French: Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste [nuvo paʁti ɑ̃tikapitalist], NPA [ɛn pe a]) 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.

The political party is closely associated with postal worker Olivier Besancenot, the main spokesman of the former Trotskyist party, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), the NPA's main predecessor. In March 2011, Myriam Martin and Christine Poupin were elected the main spokespersons of the NPA. In May 2012, Myriam Martin supported the candidate of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 presidential election instead of the NPA candidate, a worker and union activist at Ford's car plant in Bordeaux, Philippe Poutou, who came eighth in the first round with 411,160 votes, 1.15% of the total votes. She left the NPA in July 2012.

In December 2022, the party split into two roughly equal groups, both claiming to be the continuation of the NPA. Two main reasons for the split are to end to the internal disagreements that have plagued the NPA for many years, and to employ different strategies towards NUPES (the New Ecological and Social People's Union). What became The NPA – L'Anticapitaliste joined the New Popular Front, another left coalition, while the NPA – Révolutionnaires stayed independant from the left, and works at the construction of a Revolutionnary Pole, mainly toward Lutte ouvrière and Révolution Permanente.