WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL CA #349 - The Proletarian Revolution is 100 years old! (1) (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Here are excerpts from the first article published after the Second

World War. ---- "[The journal]aims to provide workers with the means to
form their own opinions, to form their own judgments, to freely and
voluntarily determine the conditions for their autonomous
action...[...]We do not ask the workers who read us to "believe in us"
and follow us. We ask them today, as yesterday, to "believe in
themselves" and to follow the decisions of their own conscience..." ----
The tone is set: this journal is part of our "class struggle" and
self-organization camp.
This essential journal of the trade union movement-class struggle-is
still alive and active. It is currently published quarterly and is run
by trade unionists from the CGT, the FSU, and SOLIDAIRES.

Founded in 1925 by trade unionists expelled from the Communist Party
(some of which they had founded), this journal, first "Communist
Syndicalist," then "Revolutionary Syndicalist," is today listed as
"founded by Pierre Monatte (2)."

For the younger generation, it is worth noting that the trade union
movement-embodied by this journal-is characterized in several ways.
Revolutionary syndicalism: daily struggles and prospects for
revolutionary transformation of society; The Refusal of the Sacred Union
and the First World War; Debates on trade union unification; feminisms;
very quickly, critical views of the Soviet Union; anti-fascism firmly
rooted in the body; The Spanish Revolution, May and June 1936 in France;
Anti-colonialism; The Algerian War; Internationalism; China; Secularism;
the autonomy of trade unionism; trade union politics, etc.

This journal has often been "ahead" of the trade union movement, not as
an enlightened avant-garde, but, today as yesterday, as a space for
debate and exchange between grassroots trade unionists.
A space open to various personalities who spoke there (3): trade
unionists, both "known and unknown" (Monatte; Rosmer, Marthe Bigot, Ida
Mett, and so many others...), but also figures such as Albert Camus,
Ante Ciliga, Daniel Guérin, Jean Maitron, Marceau Pivert, Victor Serge,
Boris Souvarine, Simone Weil (4). It's impossible to name them all.

To learn more, you must buy and read it urgently; the book has just been
dedicated to it (5). Subscriptions to the quarterly journal (6), run by
a "core" (7) of trade unionists, are also highly recommended.

PB

(1) It suspended publication during the Second World War to avoid
censorship by the Vichy government (and for obvious security reasons!)
(2) Visit www.maitron.fr or/and www.archivesautonomies.org and
https://revolutionproletarienne.wor...
(3) By visiting www.maitron.fr or/and www.archivesautonomies.org
https://revolutionproletarienne.wor... , you will see that there is a
broad "political" spectrum that corresponds well to the spirit of open
and fraternal debate of this journal.
(4) "Ours"! A teacher and philosopher who went to work in a factory in
the 1930s
(5) https://www.syllepse.net/la-revolut...
(6) https://revolutionproletarienne.wor...
(7) Reference to the life of the journal, which I will leave you to
discover.

http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4427
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