Ensemble!

Ensemble!, officially Ensemble – Movement for a Leftist, Ecologist, and Solidary Alternative (French: Ensemble – Mouvement pour une Alternative de Gauche, Écologiste et Solidaire), was a French left-wing political party, defining itself as anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist and eco-socialist. It was launched in November 2013 by several smaller groupings.

The movement was launched through the merge of Les Alternatifs, the Federation for a Social and Ecological Alternative (Fédération pour une alternative sociale et écologique, FASE), former factions of the NPA (Convergences et alternative and the Anti-Capitalist Left), a large majority of members from the Unitary Left (Gauche unitaire), and individuals who were not previously members of any political organization. ·

It became the third-largest component of the Left Front (Front de gauhce) with 2.500 members. The grouping was founded on several shared objectives : the strengthening, broadening, and democratization of the Left Front; the fight against austerity, productivism, and all forms of oppression; self-organization and a new relationship with social movements; and the development of a project for the social and ecological transformation of society to break with capitalism.

In 2017, Ensemble endorsed La France insoumise (LFI) candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential election. A number of activists were elected in the legislative elections on LFI tickets, notably Clémentine Autain.

In the following years, two internal currents emerged within Ensemble : Ensemble Insoumis and Ensemble Autogestion et Emancipation (Seld-management and Emancipation). A large portion of the membership did not align with either group. The pro-Insoumis half eventually split to form the Ecosocialist Left (Gauche écosiocialiste) in 2023, taking with it all of the movement's national elected officials. Two years later, a majority of the remaining members initiated a merger with L'Après, a party launched by several former figures of La France insoumise. A significant part of the Autogestion et Emancipation current refused to join L'Après and regrouped in the Réseau pour l'alternative (Network for the Alternative).

The Anticapitalist Left (Gauche Anticapitaliste), a group formed in 2011 as a tendency within the Trotskyist-influenced New Anticapitalist Party (which it left in 2012) advocating an electoral strategy based on unity with other anti-neoliberal and anti-capitalist forces, in particular the Left Front; The Alternatives [br; cs; fr], a "red-green" organisation founded in 1988, some of whose roots go back to the Unified Socialist Party (French: Parti Socialiste Unifié, PSU), and influenced by the movement for workers' control or self-management (French: "autogestion"). The Federation for a Social and Ecological Alternative [eo; fr] (Fédération pour une Alternative Sociale et Ecologique, FASE), a group formed in 2008, including many former members of the French Communist Party, and including the association Communistes Unitaires.

The membership of Ensemble is thus made up of activists coming from various left-wing and radical political traditions: altercommunist, trotskyist, feminist, "red-green", ecologist, etc., as well as trade unionists and global justice activists (alterglobalists).

Paid-up membership in June 2015 was approximately 1,200 (internal sources), with several hundred sympathisers.^{[citation needed]}