Long live the revolution (French: Vive la révolution, VLR) was a French libertarian Maoist group[1][2][3] which appeared in 1968, led by Roland Castro and Tiennot Grumbach and founded by 40 people, mostly from the Maoist UJC (ml) and the 22 March Movement of Nanterre.
In the 1969 French presidential election, VLC called for votes for the candidate of the Revolutionary Communist League, Alain Krivine.
), a French language newspaper with a spontaneist Maoist or even libertarian tendency,[1][2] under the caption "Ce que nous voulons: tout", English: “What we want: everything”).
In particular, controversial themes for the time were discussed, including radical feminism and homosexuality,[5] as well as many references to the Black Panthers.
Among its leaders, there was the architect Roland Castro, the gay militant writer Guy Hocquenghem, the feminist sociologists Nadja Ringart and Françoise Picq (who would participate in the creation of the MLF in 1970[6]), the future diplomat François Bujon de l'Estang, Marc Hatzfeld, the co-author of the Black Book of Communism, Stéphane Courtois, and Jean-Paul Ribes, journalist and future president of the Support Committee for the Tibetan People.