Robert Mencherini has devoted a copious volume to the insurrectional
strikes of 1947. In the first part, entitled "Autopsy of a coldinsurrection", he summarizes these four weeks of November-December whichshook France. ---- The movement broke out in Marseille on November 12,over a protest against the increase in the price of trams. Four CGTactivists were arrested. What followed was a series of incidents thatset the city ablaze. ---- Following the continued detention of the fouraccused, the courthouse was stormed and at the end of the day, "thugs"shot at the demonstrators who were attacking the nightclubs in the redlight district . Vincent Voulant, a young worker, was killed. The strikethen spread very quickly in the region.The CGT then took the initiative of extending the conflict to thenational level. The strike spreads across the entire metropolis, withthe creation of a national strike committee. The following days, out ofsolidarity, the miners of Nord and Pas-de-Calais stopped work. Quicklymany other industrial regions joined them.At the end of November, the situation was uncertain. These socialconflicts at the end of 1947 had important political implicationsleading to a shift and debates within the PCF. This struggle waspunctuated by numerous clashes, sometimes violent, and ended on December 10.The second part of the book deals with the discord and fractures withinthe CGT which led to a split and the creation of Force Ouvrière.This work provides many lessons on these worker strikes led by the CGT,in which some wanted to see an insurrectional attempt as the Cold War began.Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-R-Mencherini-Guerre-froide-greves-rouges-Les-greves-insurrectionnelles-de_________________________________________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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