#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #329 - Culture, Read: Rougerie, "Eugène Varlin: At the origins of the labor movement" (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Here is a very strange biography as the subject is difficult. As Jacques Rougerie

underlines, all the difficulty lies in the few direct sources and the brevity of
the political life, from 1865 to 1871 of Eugène Varlin (1839-1871). ---- Here is
a very strange biography as the subject is difficult. As Jacques Rougerie
underlines, all the difficulty lies in the few direct sources and the brevity of
the political life, from 1865 to 1871 of Eugène Varlin (1839-1871). ---- Coming
from a peasant family, he attended school until he was thirteen, then went to
Paris in 1852 and joined the Civil Society of bookbinders. He belongs to the
aristocracy of Parisian art workers, literate workers. Jacques Rougerie insists
on the fact that one can approach the life of Varlin only by referring to the
historical and social period. He therefore follows the paths that mark the first
times in the history of the labor movement. By avoiding mythologizing it, he made
it an actor in the emergence of the highlights of cooperatives with the creation
of La Ménagère, at the end of 1865.

Jacques Rougerie places Eugène Varlin in a Fourierist and not a Proudhonian
filiation, in reference to his egalitarian positions on women's work. How not to
mention Varlin's action within the First International, the questions of the
right to strike, trade union rights, participation in public meetings, his action
within the Commune as a member of the Finance Commission, then to the Subsistence
Commission, finally to the Military Commission where he was appointed Director
General of Handling and Military Supplies.

At the end of the Commune, he was one of the opponents of the Committee of Public
Safety. He will end up booed by the crowd and then executed in Montmartre.

A book to read and reread that is full of information on Eugène Varlin, but also
on the labor movement he served. A book on what Jules Vallès described as: "the
most remarkable personality of the Commune.»

Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)

Jacques Rougerie, Eugene Varlin. At the origins of the labor movement, editions
of Le Détour, 2019, 256 pages, 19.90 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Rougerie-Eugene-Varlin-Aux-origines-du-mouvement-ouvrier
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