General confederation of work - Trade unionist revolutionary

The General confederation of Work - Revolutionary Trade unionist was a French trade-union confederation. She was founded in 1926 starting from a scission of the General confederation of unit work, she was affiliated with the International association of the workers. Its confederal secretary, Pierre Besnard, marked of his print the existence of this organization.

Much more than its trade-union experiment, its theoretical contribution was remarkable, contents in its charter constitutive known as of Lyon of the November 1st, th and 2nd 1926, in which it exceeds the Charte of Amiens, reference of the French trade unionism including revolutionist. Indeed, the Charter of Lyon is opposed radically to the apolitical attitude (i.e. its neutrality towards the political parties) of the Charters of Amiens. On the contrary, the CGT-SR will be built, like HAS, on an ill-advised basis: the trade union should not be " any more; neutre" towards the political parties, but on the contrary fight actively against them, because they form integral part of the problem and not of its solution and must be fought for this reason. This position irreconcilable with the Charter of Amiens will be then taken again word for word in the Charter constitutive of the French CNT in 1946, said Charte of Paris.

It have nevertheless a real union action during the strikes of June 1936, in particular in the sector of the building and the Toulouse area .

The seat of the organization was the Labor market. Its confederal body was the Combat Trade unionist .

In the Years 1930, the CGT-SR was opposed actively, as well in France as in Algérie, with the Colonialisme French. At the time of the centenary of the French occupation in Algeria, in 1930, a Joint Declaration of the anarchistic Union, CGT-SR and Association of the anarchistic federalists denounced “colonialism assassin, the bloody masquerade”.

At the time of the Spanish Revolution, the CGT-SR was very active in the support for the comrades of the National confederation of work of Spain and during the civil war too. But it also made critical analyzes of the actions of the Spanish CNT for this period.

At the dawn of the Second world war, it hardly exceeded: 8000 members and it had only one relatively reduced influence. Besides its detractors named it CGT-Without Nothing. It was the place of rallying in France of all the anarchistic companions fleeing totalitarian repression, in particular the Russian , Bulgares, German, Italian.

After the failure of the Spanish revolution, she did not survive her prohibition by the government as of 1939. Nevertheless, many its militants joined the fight in resistance to the Nazisme.

The French National confederation of work was created in December 1946. Among his founders, one finds many militants of the CGT-SR.

Joseph Vincent, one of the last alive militants of the CGT-SR, always continues to be militant with the CNT-AIT of Toulouse (with the measurement of its forces).

Other figures

Victor Giraud
Paul Lapeyre
Saïl Mohamed (1894-1953)
Adrien Perrissaguet
Vincent Joseph (1920 -)
Antoine Turmo

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