European Anti-Capitalist Left | |
|---|---|
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| President | Collective leadership |
| Founded | March 2000 |
| Dissolved | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Brussels |
| Ideology | Anti-capitalism Socialism Soft Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| European Parliament group | The Left in the European Parliament |
| Colours | Red, Black, White, Pink |
The European Anti-Capitalist Left (EACL) was a left-wing European political alliance.
The EACL took part in the Europe against Austerity Conference in 2011 and 2012. [1] [2]
Parties participating in the EACL are united in opposition to neo-liberalism and capitalism. The criteria for participation in its conferences are:
Despite the last criterion, many organisations involved in the EACL, with the exception of the founding parties, are somewhat marginal groups, often of Trotskyist or Marxist–Leninist anti-revisionist persuasion which organize most vigorously through social movements and trade unions, rather than through electoral processes. The EACL emphasises an organizational need to carry out a great deal of extra-parliamentary activism. [3]
 | This section needs to be updated.(April 2017) |
The following table is a list of participants in each meeting.
| Country | Party | – | – | – | 12th | 11th | 10th | 9th | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 [4] | 2008 [5] | 2007 [6] | 2006 [7] | 2005 [8] | 2005 [9] | 2004 [10] | 2004 [11] | 2003 [12] | 2003 [13] [14] | 2002 [15] | 2002 [16] | 2001 [17] | ||
| Strasbourg | Paris | Almada | Saint-Denis | London | Edinburgh | Amsterdam | Brussels | Paris | Athens | Copenhagen | Madrid | Brussels | ||
 Belgium | Revolutionary Communist League | Participant | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Left Socialist Party | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
 Denmark | Red-Green Alliance | No | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
 Germany | German Communist Party | No | No | No | Participant | Participant | No | No | No | No | Observer | Unknown | Observer | Unknown |
| International Socialist Left | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Revolutionary Socialist League | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
 Greece | Synaspismós | Participant | Participant | Observer | No | No | No | No | No | Participant | Observer | Unknown | No | Unknown |
 France | Revolutionary Communist League | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
| New Anticapitalist Party | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
 Ireland | Socialist Party | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Participant | Observer | Unknown | No | Unknown |
| People Before Profit | No | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
 Italy | Party of Communist Refoundation | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
 Luxembourg | The Left | No | No | No | No | No | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | No | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
 Poland | Polish Labour Party | Participant | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
 Portugal | Left Bloc | Participant | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
 Sweden | Socialist Party | Participant | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
 Switzerland | Solidarity | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | No | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
| Movement for Socialism | Participant | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Alternative Left | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
 Spain | Alternative Space | No | No | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
| Zutik | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Participant | No | Unknown | Participant | Unknown | |
| Red Current | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Observer | Unknown | |
| United Left | No | No | No | No | No | No | Participant | No | No | No | Unknown | Observer | Unknown | |
| United Alternative Left of Catalonia | No | No | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | No | Participant | Participant | Observer | Unknown | Observer | Unknown | |
| Anticapitalist Left | Participant | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
 Turkey | Freedom and Solidarity Party | No | No | No | Participant | No | No | Participant | No | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
 United Kingdom | Scottish Socialist Party | Participant | No | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown |
| Socialist Alliance | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown | |
| Socialist Workers Party | Participant | Participant | Participant | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Unknown | Participant | Unknown | |
| Socialist Party | Participant | Participant | No | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | No | Participant | Observer | Unknown | No | Unknown | |
| Respect Party | No | No | No | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Socialist Resistance | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| International Socialist Group | Participant | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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