Claude Pennetier

Claude Pennetier , born in 1947, is researcher with the CNRS and specialist in the socio-history of the Militantisme.

Research

Claude Pennetier, wire of a principal having adhered to the Trotskysme in the years 1930 and founder of the trade-union current teaching the émancipée School, was initially militant troskyste. Moving away from the militant practice, it was devoted, without giving up its convictions, with the historical research within CNRS.

With the beginning of the year 1980, he becomes the associate of Jean Maitron with the direction of the biographical Dictionnaire of the labor movement French , work which he continues since the death of the creator in 1987 (see the biographical Dictionnaire, labor movement, social movement ). He directs the collection “the Share of the Men” to the Éditions of the Workshop, which “proposes to make discover routes of women and men, actors of the social movement, French revolution at our days”. He is responsible for the pole “Bond militant” and the program “Prosopographie of the militants” to the Center of social history of the {{S|XX|E}} of the University Paris I.

In the work June 40, the secret negotiation , the authors present thanks to a document found to the files of Paris, the negotiation between Maurice Tréand, representing PCF, and Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris during the Second world war, to obtain the legalization of the communist activity in June 1940, at the time of the rout of the French Army vis-a-vis the Germans. The authors present the following paradox: the Communistes negotiated with the Nazis, however it is those which paid the price most extremely of German repression.

Claude Pennetier is adherent Fondation Copernic and Ligue of the human rights. He was publicly opposed to the law of February 2005 defending “the positive role” of the French Colonisation.

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