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{{Short description|French politician (1941–2022)}}
{{Expand French|topic=bio|Alain Krivine|date=December 2020}}
{{ infobox officeholder
| name               = Alain Krivine
| image              = Alain Krivine 1999.jpg
| caption            = Krivine in 1999
| office             = [[Member of the European Parliament]]
| term_start         = 20 July 1999
| term_end           = 19 July 2004
| parliamentarygroup = [[The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL]]
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1941|07|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = Paris, France
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2022|03|12|1941|07|10|df=yes}}
| death_place        = Paris, France
| education          = [[Lycée Condorcet]]
| alma_mater         = [[Faculté des lettres de Paris]]
| party              = [[Revolutionary Communist League (France)|Revolutionary Communist League]] (1974–2009)<br />[[New Anticapitalist Party]] (2009–2022)
}}

'''Alain Krivine''' ({{IPA|fr|a.lɛ̃ kʁi.vin|lang}}; 10 July 1941 – 12 March 2022) was a French [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] leader and one of the leaders of the [[May 68|May 1968 revolt in Paris]].

== Early life ==
Krivine was born in July 1941 in Paris, France, the child of Pierre Léon Georges Krivine, a [[stomatologist]], and Esther Lautman, the sister of French Resistance fighter [[Albert Lautman]]. The [[Krivine]] family originally came from Ukraine, having fled to France during the antisemitic [[pogrom]]s of the Russian Empire in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Edwy |last=Plenel |date=15 March 2022 |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5297-the-integrity-of-a-revolutionary-alain-krivine-1941-2022 |title=The Integrity of a Revolutionary: Alain Krivine, 1941-2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329124725/https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5297-the-integrity-of-a-revolutionary-alain-krivine-1941-2022 |archive-date=29 March 2023}}</ref>

== Career ==
Krivine was one of the leaders of the [[May 68|May 1968 revolt in Paris]], and was the last of the generation radicalised in the 1960s to serve on the political bureau of the LCR. He was the candidate of the LC at the [[1969 French presidential election|French presidential election]] of 1969, getting 1.05% of the votes. He released his first book that same year "{{lang|fr|La Farce électorale}}" (The Electoral Farce). In 1974, he participated in the founding of the {{lang|fr|Front Communiste Révolutionnaire}} which became the LCR in that same year. He was the FCR's presidential candidate in [[1974 French presidential election|1974 elections]], coming in ninth place with around 0.37% of votes. He released his second book in 1974 titled "{{lang|fr|Questions sur la révolution}}" (Questions on the révolution).

He was a member of the [[Revolutionary Communist League (France)|Revolutionary Communist League]] (LCR), which is the French section of the [[reunified Fourth International]]. He was a member of the LCR's political bureau until March 2006, when he resigned from that committee. He was a member of the [[European Parliament]] from 1999 to 2004.

He wrote the preface for André Fichaut's 2003 autobiography "{{lang|fr|Sur le pont. Souvenirs d'un ouvrier trotskiste breton}}" (On the bridge. Memories of a Breton Trotskyist worker). Later in 2006, he wrote an autobiography titled "{{lang|fr|Ça te passera avec l'age}}." (That'll go away with age)<ref>{{Cite web |first=Edwy |last=Plenel |date=16 March 2022 |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/160322/alain-krivine-integrity-revolutionary |title=Alain Krivine: The integrity of a revolutionary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004110332/https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/160322/alain-krivine-integrity-revolutionary |archive-date=4 October 2023}}</ref>

== Death ==
Krivine died on 12 March 2022 in Paris, at the age of 80.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alain Krivine, ancien leader de la Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, est mort à l'âge de 80 ans |trans-title=Alain Krivine, former leader of the Revolutionary Communist League, has died at the age of 80 |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/politique/3251363-20220312-alain-krivine-ancien-leader-ligue-communiste-revolutionnaire-mort-age-80-ans |access-date=12 March 2022 |newspaper=[[20 minutes (France)|20 minutes]] |language=fr |date=12 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102192234/https://www.20minutes.fr/politique/3251363-20220312-alain-krivine-ancien-leader-ligue-communiste-revolutionnaire-mort-age-80-ans |archive-date=2 November 2023}}</ref> His funeral was held in the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] on 21 March 2022. Over 2000 people attended it<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2022/03/22/dernier-hommage-a-alain-krivine-figure-tutelaire-de-l-extreme-gauche_6118574_823448.html |work=[[Le Monde]] |last=Telo |first=Laurent |title=Dernier hommage à Alain Krivine, figure tutélaire de l'extrême-gauche |date=22 March 2022 |trans-title=Final homage to Alain Krivine, major figure of the far-left |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111065513/https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2022/03/22/dernier-hommage-a-alain-krivine-figure-tutelaire-de-l-extreme-gauche_6118574_823448.html |archive-date=11 November 2022}}</ref> including many left-wing and far-left figures, including: [[Jean-Luc Mélenchon]] former presidential candidate of [[La France Insoumise]] (LFI), LFI [[Deputy (France)|deputies]] [[Adrien Quatennens]] and [[Alexis Corbière]], former [[Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire|LCR]] presidential candidate [[Olivier Besancenot]], former [[Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste|NPA]] presidential candidate [[Philippe Poutou]], journalist [[Edwy Plenel]] and the former militant and syndicalist [[:fr:Gérard Filoche|Gérard Filoche]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Boiteau |first=Victor |title=Adieu à Alain Krivine au Père-Lachaise: tristes trotskistes |trans-title=Goodbye to Alain Krivine at Père Lachaise: sad trotskyists |url=https://www.liberation.fr/politique/adieu-a-alain-krivine-au-pere-lachaise-tristes-trotskistes-20220321_Y4C43AINFVDYFC6A6N3CVYPESU/ |work=[[Libération]] |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401232553/https://www.liberation.fr/politique/adieu-a-alain-krivine-au-pere-lachaise-tristes-trotskistes-20220321_Y4C43AINFVDYFC6A6N3CVYPESU/ |archive-date=1 April 2023}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/krivine/index.htm Alain Krivine Archive] at [[marxists.org]]
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-747527@51-738978,0.html Alain Krivine quitte le bureau politique de la LCR] - Article in ''[[Le Monde]]'' on his resignation. 4 March 2006.

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