Claire Auzias defined herself as an individualist anarchist (but hey,
we're not sectarian); she was above all an anarchist, feminist andhistorian. ---- Claire Auzias grew up in a communist family. At a very
young age, she would experience solidarity: at the age of ten, she gave
up her room to an FLN activist that her parents hid in their home. ----
On the walls of the apartment, she read "Long live the dictatorship of
the proletariat", but she said "no, not dictatorship". Her whole life
would be like this. At the age of fourteen, she asked to be emancipated.
At the beginning of May 1968, at high school, she had to intervene in a
debate: she preferred to go to a demonstration. A committed historian
In 1980, Claire Auzias defended a history thesis on the oral memory of
the libertarian movements in Lyon before the Second World War. Her
subjects of study intersect social and gender issues. We meet the
figures of Emma Goldman and Louise Michel but also the ovalist workers.
These women silk workers began a strike in June 1869 in Lyon, the first
strike led by women in France.
A page of labor and social history that has fallen into oblivion that
Claire Auzias helps to bring out of the shadows.
She then focuses her research work on the study of the Roma and Gypsy
populations, working to remember the Roma genocide that left more than
500,000 dead (out of the 700,000 who lived in Europe at the time). Her
book Samudaripen, the Gypsy Genocide helped to bring this genocide out
of oblivion, which remains little known and recognized.
In the 2000s, Claire Augias was involved in various editorial projects:
in 2004, she participated in the founding of Égrégore publishing. She is
also a member of the editorial board of the journal Chimères, founded by
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and several of her works are
published by the Ateliers de création libertaire.
Having remained faithful to her youthful libertarian commitments, she is
a nonconformist historian who has left us. Let us not let the lives and
struggles that she helped to highlight fade away.
David (UCL Savoies)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Necrologie-Claire-Auzias-1951-2024-une-passeuse-anarchiste
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