Fernand Pelloutier

An anarchist in the class struggle: Fernand PELLOUTIER

« L’Anarcho-syndicaliste » supplement to n ° 180, March / April 2014
– Collection of texts published from 1895 to 1899, up to the “Letter to the anarchists”.
– Follow-up of some articles by Gustave LEFRANCAIS about “socialist-parliamentarians”.

Summary

Texts by Fernand PELLOUTIER

  1. P3: The current situation of socialism
  2. P7: The conquest of political power and the International
  3. P11: The conquest of political power and the “workers” parties
  4. P16: Anarchism and labor unions: November
  5. P20: The political and social month (May 1896)
  6. P22: The London Congress and the anarchists
  7. P24: Corporate organization and anarchy
  8. P28: The General Congress of the French Socialist Party
  9. P54: Letter to the anarchists

Texts by Gustave LEFRANÇAIS

  1. P57: The socialist crisis, or “Whose underpants?”
  2. P58: Suggestive incident at the Congress of Parliamentary Socialists
  3. P59: Insignificance of the Congress of Parliamentary Socialists
  4. P61: Revolutionary cabotinage
  5. P61: Doctor Brousse’s “ideas from behind his head”
  6. P62: French socialists and China
  7. P64: The Workers’ Party judged by its leaders
  8. P65: Parliamentary Socialists and Liberty

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Lettre aux anarchistes 1899

Fernand Pelloutier
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Taken from the Wikipedia page: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Pelloutier

Biography

Birth : October 1, 1867 in Paris
Death: March 13, 1901 (aged 33) in Sèvres
Nationality: French
Activity: Trade unionist

Fernand-Léonce Émile Pelloutier , born in Paris the and dead the at Sevres (Seine-et-Oise ), is an activist revolutionary trade unionist socialist and libertarian 1 , 2 .

Secretary-General, in 1895, of the Federation of Labor Bursaries , he is one of the great figures of unionism and anarchism French at xix e century .

Summary

  1. Biography
  2. Pelloutier and the general strike
  3. Bibliography
    1. Works
    2. Studies
    3. Articles
  4. Radio
  5. Notices
  6. Notes and references
  7. See as well
    1. Related articles
    2. external links

Biography

Rebel spirit in a traditional family monarchist , Fernand Pelloutier quits his studies after failing baccalaureate and becomes journalist in 1886 .
First attracted by republican ideas, he then rallied the socialism and adheres, in 1892 , at Workers party of Jules Guesde . He writes, with Aristide Briand , a brochure entitled From revolution through general strike . He is then seduced by the ideas anarchists .
Elected secretary of the Federation of labor exchanges in 1895 , Pelloutier criticizes the terrorist strategy of Ravachol and prefers to develop labor grants . Under his leadership, their number rose sharply, from 33 to 1894 , to 81 in 1901. By their vocation and their function, these places appear in the eyes of the exploited more efficient and more pragmatic than the simple ones. trade unions . For Pelloutier, labor exchanges are the expression of integral unionism. Designed as solidarity organizations, they are endowed with various mutuality services: employment offices, solidarity funds, sickness, unemployment, death funds …
There are also libraries intended to enable workers to better understand their situation by reading Adam smith , Proudhon , Marx , Kropotkin , Zola , Bakunin … Pelloutier also organizes evening classes there.
It will endeavor as much to develop the stock exchanges as to maintain their autonomy within the framework of a CGT .
Adept of worker autonomy , he put on the agenda the teachings of Proudhon and of Bakunin , and is recognized as such as an actualizer of anarchist thought. After having had health problems all his life, Pelloutier died prematurely and in destitution in 1901.

Pelloutier and the general strike

Method of struggle, the expropriating general strike is for Fernand Pelloutier « a movement, if not violent, at least active, tending to annihilate the resistance of capitalism and its means of coercion: for this, it will avoid taking the form of an insurrection, too easily reducible militarily, or of ‘a financial test of strength which would necessarily see the defeat of the proletariat. It will not lead to a socialist power, but to an absolutely new type of society, based on the free association of producers. Is that the general strike having to be a revolution everywhere and nowhere, the taking of possession of the instruments of production having to take place there by district, by street, by house, so to speak, no more possible constitution of an « insurrectional government » of a “proletarian dictatorship”, no more “hotbed” for rioting, no “center” for resistance; the free association of each group of bakers in each bakery; of each group of locksmiths in each locksmith shop; in short, free production. « 3 , 4

Bibliography

Works

  • Pelloutier Fernand and Pelloutier Maurice, 1900, Working life in France , Paris: Schleicher frères, 344 p.
  • Fernand Pelloutier, History of labor exchanges: origin, institutions, future , 1921, (posthumous work), Paris, Alfred Costes Éditeur, [ read online [ archive ] ] ; Reissue Phénix éditions, coll. libertarian & anarchist library, 2001, 340 p. ( ISBN 2-7458-0671-8 ) .
  • Pelloutier Fernand, 1921, Trade unions in France , Paris: ed. of the Labor Library; Nancy: impr. worker in the eastern region, 30 p.
  • Pelloutier Fernand, Art and revolt (conference given on ); Choice of literary-themed articles; The labor museum , ed. established and annotated by Jean-Pierre Lecercle, Paris: Place d’Armes, impr. 2002

Studies

  • 1967: Maurice foulon , Fernand Pelloutier, precursor of federalist unionism, founder of the Bourses du Travail: the Centenary Book , Paris, La Ruche Ouvrière, 190 p. , in-16 – Contains in appendix: Letter to the anarchists, , by Fernand Pelloutier.
  • 1970: FF Ridley, Revolutionary Syndicalism in France , Cambridge
  • 1971: Jacques Julliard , Fernand Pelloutier and the origins of direct action unionism , Paris
  • 1971: Peter Stearns, Revolutionary Syndicalism and French Labor: A Cause without Rebels , New Brunswick
  • 1985: Peter Schöttler , Birth of labor exchanges. An ideological state apparatus at the end of the 19th century e century, Paris
  • 1987: Barbara Mitchell, The Practical Revolutionaries. A New Interpretation of the French Anarchosyndicalists, New York
  • (in) Robert graham , Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas , From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE to 1939) , volume I, Black Rose Books, 2005, Full Text [ archive ] .

Articles

Radio

Notices

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Biographical dictionary of the French labor movement , « Le Maitron »: biographical note [ archive ] .
  2. ↑ Larousse Encyclopedia online : biographical note [ archive ] .
  3. ↑ Jacques Julliard , Fernand Pelloutier and the Origins of Direct Action Unionism , Threshold, 1971, page 83 [ archive ] .
  4. ↑ Jacques Julliard , Fernand Pelloutier , The Social Movement, French Institute of Social History, Workers’ Editions, 1971-04, read online [ archive ] .

See as well

Related articles

external links

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