While the revolutionary workers' movement, in all its components, was in crisis
at the beginning of the 1930s, the Communist Party, its satellites and its alliesremained the main pole of resistance to the state cramming. ---- In the early1930s, the anti-colonialist camp in France was in bad shape. It is reduced toprecarious Indochinese and Maghreb militant circles, closely watched by thepolice, and to the revolutionary workers' movement, itself very weakened by theebb of struggles, the economic crisis and the rise in unemployment. ---- TheCommunist Party , led by Maurice Thorez, is by far the main anti-colonialistforce in France. It still has 30,000 members, but its membership has shrunk bythree quarters in ten years [1], shrinking its capacity for action. While it hadfought ardently against the Rif War in 1925-1926, its colonial commission is nowmoribund and, in 1930, the party remained passive in the face of the repressionof the insurgents of Yên Bái, in Indochina.The CGTU, linked to the PC, worked for the unionization of the "immigrantworkforce" (MOI), despite a hostile climate in the proletariat, with a figurelike Ben Kaddour Marouf.Revolutionary trade unionists loyal to the Amiens Charter formed minoritieswithin the reformist CGT as well as the stalinized CGTU. They meet around thereview La Révolution prolétarienne , hosted by Pierre Monatte. In 1930-1931, shecampaigned for union reunification with the Committee for the Independence ofTrade Unionism and its body, Le Cri du peuple . The most informedanti-colonialist feathers in this current are those of Robert Louzon and theyoung Daniel Guérin.The Revolutionary Communist Anarchist Union , the main libertarian organizationin France, is also in deep stagnation. It underwent a synthesist split in 1927,Le Libertaire was withdrawn from newsstands in the provinces and is held at arm'slength by the organization. Within it, the main animator of anti-colonial actionis Mohamed Saïl, a Kabyle mechanic who initiated, in 1923, the Action Committeefor the Defense of Indigenous Algerians.Mohamed Saïl (1894-1953), immigrant worker in France, was the main actor inlibertarian anti-colonialism, from the 1920s to the 1940s. In 1930, for theanniversary of the French occupation of Algeria, he led an action committee "against the provocations of the centenary".The surrealists , avant-garde artists dazzled by the Russian Revolution, werethen, at the instigation of André Breton, Paul Éluard and Louis Aragon, in fullcontact with the Communist Party. They publish Le Surréalisme au service de larevolution.The colonial groups united , from 1920 to 1926, within the Intercolonial Union,close to the Communist Party, broke up to form national-based organizations [2].The Annamite Independence Party was led until 1929 by Nguyen The Truyen (whobecame nationalist) and Ta Thu Thau (who moved towards Trotskyism). The NorthAfrican Star , hosted in particular by the Algerian Messali Hadj, publishes ElOuma and moves away from the PC. The negro race Defense League, which in 1931became the Union of sandstone nè-workers , led by the Malian Tiemoko GaranKouyaté, publishes The Scream Negroes and remains closely linked to the III eInternational.To these organizations, we must add the colonial student circles in metropolitanFrance, the most active of which are Vietnamese and often affiliated with theFederal Union of Students (UFE), an organization also linked to the PC.Guillaume Davranche (Montreuil)To validate[1]Jacques Fauvet, History of the Communist Party , Fayard, 1964.[2]Claude Liauzu, History of anti-colonialism in France , Pluriel, 2012.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?1931-L-Exposition-coloniale-les-principales-voix-anticolonialistes_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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