Michel Desmars died on December 21, at the age of 79. Red and black figure of May
1968 in Tours, revolutionary railway worker and trade unionist, internationalist,he was all of these at the same time. ---- In 1968, the May movement seizedMichel Desmars, a railway worker affiliated with FO, but above all with the Uniondes anarcho-syndicalistes. Joined the SNCF in 1961, he is a driving agent,attached to the Saint-Pierre-des-Corps depot (37), and actively participates inthe strike with occupation, as he told for the Union magazine SyndicaleSolidaires on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of May [1]. Generalassemblies punctuate the movement, tools for free speech and self-organization.In parallel with this involvement in the strike, he led, alongside GeorgesFontenis, the Revolutionary Action Committee (CAR) of Tours.Excluded from FO in 1969, Michel Desmars went through an anti-unionist phase, andvery marked by the spirit of Mai, he sought to promote the expression of a formof workers' autonomy, whether by participating in the Cahiers de Mai or theBulletin Action-Cheminots. In 1969, he was, along with Georges Fontenis, one ofthe co-founders of the Mouvement communiste libertaire (MCL), and was director ofpublication for his newspaper, Guerre de classes.Leader of the left CFDTWhile the MCL - which became the so-called "first way" OCL in 1971 - declined,Michel Desmars joined the CFDT in 1974 and very quickly took on responsibilities.He will be one of the organizers of the trade union left of this central twentyyears. Revolutionary and self-managed, he is involved in all the adventures ofregrouping this union left, in particular through the magazines Résister,Collectif and even Cahiers syndicales [2]. In 1986, he was among those wholaunched the renewable strike at the SNCF and made the union tool available togeneral railway assemblies and the coordination of driving agents, not withoutheated discussions with the management of the CFDT, which condemned the'self-organization[3].Unsurprisingly, and while he retired in 1992, he participated in the creation ofSUD-Rail in 1996 and then in the development of the Union Syndicale Solidaires,in particular through its internationalist activity as in the Departmental Unionof Haute-Garonne.UTCL activistAfter the MCL-OCL experience, Michel Desmars joined the Union of LibertarianCommunist Workers (UTCL) in 1980 and participated in its Transport branch. He wasamong the signatories of the Call for a Libertarian Alternative which would leadto the creation of the organization of the same name in 1991. But he was notgoing to continue in this way and ceased to join a libertarian communistorganization.In 2001, he participated in the experience of the list Motivated es in Toulouse,where he appeared in 3 th position and was elected to the City Council. In 2007,when union and libertarian activists criticized the "false good idea of the Bovécandidacy" for the presidential election, he was on the contrary participating inthe campaign team of the former peasant unionist.Mayor of Verdier, his small village in Tarn, at the end of his life, MichelDesmars was nonetheless a man of the emancipation camp, one of us.Théo RoumierMichel Desmars' biographical note can be found online in Le Maitron, abiographical dictionary of the labor movement and the social movement.To validate[1] Michel Desmars, "May 68 in Tours, souvenirs, souvenirs...", Les Utopiques n °7, spring 2018.[2] Part of the collections of these reviews is kept in Montreuil at theLibertarian Communist Archives (FACL) to which Michel Desmars contributed. Seealso Michel Desmars, "When the union left acquired tools to move forward...", LesUtopiques n ° 4, February 2017.[3] See Théo Roumier[Rival], Syndicalistes et libertaires, une histoire de UTCL(1974-1991), Alternative libertaire, 2013.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Michel-Desmars-1942-2021-militant-de-Mai_________________________________________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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