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Pierre Monatte (
15 January 1881 -
27 June 1960) was a
French trade unionist who worked in the
printing industry (
ouvrier du livre). He was the responsible of the
Confédération générale du travail (CGT, Generation Confederation of Labour) at the beginning of the
20th century, and founded its journal
La Vie ouvrière (Workers' Life) on
5 October,
1909. Monatte has been considered one of the great figures of
revolutionary syndicalism.
During
World War I, Pierre Monatte opposed the
Union sacrée national bloc, and resigned in 1915 from the confederal instances. Monatte often referred himself to
Fernand Pelloutier and didn't disguise his
anarchist sympathies, although he drifted away from this current of
Socialism after the
International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam in 1907. During this congress, Monatte argued in particular with
Errico Malatesta concerning the methods of organisation: invoking the 1906
Charter of Amiens which established the principle of "political neutrality" of the trade-unions, Monatte considered syndicalism itself to be revolutionary, while Malatesta advocated the creation of some sort of anarchist organisation to superate internal conflicts among the workers' movement itself .
Heading the internal opposition in the CGT, he founded in April 1919 the
Comités syndicalistes révolutionnaires (Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees) inside the CGT. In 1923, he joined the
French Communist Party (PCF) and was close to
Boris Souvarine and
Alfred Rosmer. Along with them, he was excluded at the end of 1924 of the party at the occasion of an internal purge against "
leftist"s elements of the party who supported
Leon Trotsky. Then, Monatte founded in January 1925 the journal
La Révolution prolétarienne (The Proletarian Revolution), along with
Robert Louzon. The journal enjoyed an appreciated audience among trade-unionists and left-wing activists during the
inter-war period.
Bibliography
Colette Chambelland,
Pierre Monatte, Une autre voix syndicaliste, coll.: Part des Hommes, Éd. de l'Atelier, 1999, ISBN 2708234609
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