The annual Fête de Lutte Ouvrière is probably the largest public gathering of the revolutionary left in Europe at this point in time.
The truth is that we never thought that you could have been caught," he said; "we counted on you as the one red-hot revolutionary left in the world.
In such an inhospitable climate for human progress, it should not be surprising that a revolutionary left existed long before 1954.
To the right, Asturias was evidence of the revolutionary left's plans for Spain.
Its left-wing agenda stemmed from its early association with the International Socialists, which broadened to a wider revolutionary left in 1972 when Nina and Michael Kidron joined.
The revolutionary left had however suspended armed struggle, joining itself to the participative democracy process, which created alarms in the Peronist right-wing bureaucracy.
The revolutionary left was also divided within own ranks.
The Autonomist Marxist and Autonomen movements provided inspiration to some on the revolutionary left in English-speaking countries, particularly among anarchists, many of whom have adopted autonomist tactics.
People who knocked about the revolutionary left at the time still remember Big Flame fondly as a fundamentally nice organization.
Workers Power published a periodical called Against the Current which argued for that the disparate tendencies of the revolutionary left should unify despite their political differences.