Andre Colomer

André Colomer (1886 with Cerberus - October 7th 1931 with Moscow) is a Poète, lyric theorist of violence and a Anarchiste Individualiste exacerbated French.

It was born in Cerbère, then raised with Paris, and discovers at 12 years the anarchistic ideal during the reading of works of Zola. He is high-school pupil with Bordeaux but the Individualisme makes him take one sabbatical year that he occupies on the the Mediterranean. The following year, it follows the courses which enable him to obtain the baccalaureat, returns to Louis-the-Large where it prepares the entrance examination to the National university. But it is a failure. It is called then by the army about the Military service which it carries out with Perpignan in 1906.

He teaches as a Professor with the college of Blois, and Répétiteur with the college Lakanal. But that does not last a long time. He settles in Paris, starts to write and becomes journalist. He is at the origin of two reviews: the Fair with the dreams in 1907, and the Action of Art in 1913. In 1911, he refuses to achieve one 28 days military period and is imprisoned with the Prison Seek-Midday. He is sick there, it is reformed and he is released. In September 1914, he is convened in front of a council of reform to which he does not go. He prefers to leave for the Italy with his Madeleine wife.

He starts to write has to us two, Patrie! where he proclaims:

War or Revolution could burst. Neither one nor the other would count to me with the row its soldiers; neither one nor the other would have my blood of hero among his rows.

In 1915, this country enters in war, which brings it to clandestinity. Its disease doing nothing but worsen, it is obliged to take the risk to be discovered. It is stopped and transferred to Perpignan. Considering his critical health condition, one grants a final reform to him which is being the day of the Armistice.

Since 1919, he writes in the weekly magazine the Libertarian of which he will be named sub-editor. Within the Club of Insurgent the, he is speaker at the time of public talks. One of these has as a title: Which is guilty? The Company or the Gangster? and takes place at the House of the Trade unions, boulevard Auguste-Blanqui. He syndicalement organizes the professional workers by creating the Syndicat of the Writers and the Syndicat of the Dramatic authors in 1920 and he becomes secretary of the inter-union Comité of the Spectacle. He is cofounder of the General confederation of unit work in 1921. This trade union however close to the French Communist party, Colomer fascine not for the Russian Revolution of 1917. He thinks that the Revolution is “a myth” and a “great hollow word”. November 18th, 1921, he writes in the Libertarian :

… When the workers are the Masters, according to the anarchistic design, they will be only the main of the inanimate matter which they activate their efforts. To release itself, to organize themselves and defend themselves, the individual-producers need neither politicians, neither of generals, nor police chiefs of the people. Let remove to them the State, its civils servant, its wheels, its laws, all the old carcass of collective oppression - and you will see, by the only play of the interest and the affection, the men to produce, the individuals to group and live in the search of class and harmony.

In August 1922, he becomes director of the Anarchistic Revue. November 24th, 1923 takes place the business Daudet for which Colomer will reveal later that Flaoutter was a provocative agent, police informer. In 1925, it goes to Montpellier to treat topic: “Two monsters, God and the Fatherland, devastate humanity”. It that it will influence Léo Malet, is upset there by the feverish temperament of Colomer, on the way Libertaire. It follows a correspondence. Its memories are published in which a chapter is devoted to the band in Bonnot. December 12th, it makes appear a text in its newspaper under the title Choisir! :

I will be with the proletarians when they revolt against the orders of the State, when they make figure of insurgent - even if they carry out this insurrection under the red flags of the Bolchevism.

Following the “thesis of the assassination” of Philippe Daudet that one reproaches him, Colomer leaves the Libertarian to create the weekly magazine the Insurgé . Y sign Hauteclaire (Madeleine Colomer), Sebastien Faivre, Henry Poulaille, Maurice Wullens, No5el Letam (Léo Malet)… Colomer lives then with 259 rue de Charenton in Paris. In February 1927, it falls again seriously sick. It converts some month after with the Bolchevisme and adheres to PCF. Accommodated with its family in Moscow, he dies in 1931.

Work

Roland Malmos (Romance)
the Refractory (drama in three acts)
has to us two, Patrie! (memories), 1925

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