Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Noam Chomsky.

These are the books that are behind the new revolutionary party in France....

Hoping to ride a wave of popular anger unleashed by the economic storm, France's revolutionary left launched a new party Friday led by its most polished performer, a Trokskyist postman.

The New Anti-Capitalist Party held its inaugural conference in St Denis, a drab working class suburb north of Paris, from where Olivier Besancenot hopes to lead a coalition of communists, left radicals and greens to power.

Once there, they hope to abolish the stock market, nationalise all large businesses, seize empty properties to house the homeless, boost the minimum wage and ban any firm that turns a profit from ever laying off staff.

"I want a revolutionary transformation of society," Besancenot declared to a crowd of several hundred new party members, many of them drawn from his former party, the Communist Revolutionary League (LCR), disbanded the night before.

At 34, Besancenot is already a veteran of France's small but resilient far left movement and its most high-profile flagbearer, an accomplished television performer who won 4.1 percent of the vote in the 2007 presidential election.

As delegates gathered at Friday's conference, his books were arrayed on stalls alongside left wing writers of much longer pedigree, such as Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Noam Chomsky.

What about the Koran? Are they going to make common cause with the Islamists???