Robert Barcia

Robert Barcia , alias Hardy , alias Roger Girardot , born in Paris the 14th July 22nd 1928 is a political director French of Extreme left, cofounder of Workers' struggle.

History

Robert Barcia was born in Paris in a working medium sympathizing with the communist ideas. He starts to militate in 1943 at the 15 years age, in a clandestine group of the Communist party (distribution of the clandestine press, released leaflets in cinemas of the Clichy place, etc) In September 1943 he is stopped in possession of leaflets and newspapers and is imprisoned with the prison of Health. Released in February 1944 in company of about fifteen young people of less than 18 years it renews contact with the resistant groups, meets Mathieu Bucholz, alias Pamp , militant trotskist of the small communist Union organization directed by David Korner, alias Barta . Mathieu Bucholz tells him the combat of Trotsky against the Soviet bureaucracy, but it is its assassination by militants of the French Communist party with the Release which gains definitively Robert Barcia with the ideas trotskystes, according to him only way of not giving up the Marxism, Communism, the conviction that it was necessary to replace the capitalist company by a Community company .

After the war, this small group revolves primarily around Renault where Pierre Bois militates. In 1947, Pierre Bois directs the strike to Renault Billancourt and organizes the strike committee. Robert Barcia, tuberculous, plays no part there. In 1948, it démissionnepar “lassitude”. It is 20 years old, is tired and without resources and must manage. In 1949, the communist Union undergoes a crisis and ceases in fact to exist, David Korner then ceasing any political activity. It is a new catch for Robert Barcia and with Pierre Bois they reconstitute an small group. At that time it publishes under its name, and by mentioning its exact address a small bulletin. That is worth the visit of Pierre Frank to him, leader trotskist, who tries to rejoin it with his comrades. The small group finally manages to pack itself and will give birth, at the beginning of 1956 in working Voix.

In 1968, Voix working is prohibited after the revolt coed and becomes Workers' struggle, Pierre Bois and Robert Barcia is with the different one, in particular with the reinforcement of Arlette Laguiller, the re-elected leaders, each year.

Community activities

In 1949, at the 21 years age, it becomes Medical representative. The following year, this activity not being compatible with its militant life, it leaves this employment quickly. At the end of October 1950, it is hospitalized for a relapse of tuberculosis, and goes from postcure sanatorium until in 1954. Starting from 1953 it becomes again medical representative for the Ucépha laboratory. At the time, this work was " less paid than that of a workman qualifié". In 1966, it thinks of resigning of its station, after a requested leave had been refused to him. The chance is worth to him to be laid off just at the time to file in its resignation letter. Opportunely exchanging its mail against a check of dismissal indemnity, it settles thanks to this “gold mine” as free lance. Consequently this activity enables him to devote more time to the construction of the " group; Voice ouvrière".

It creates a school of medical formation by correspondence to prepare with the profession of medical representative, to which it gives the name of APERTURE, in an old shop of 20m2 of popular quarters of Aubervilliers, but must continue to work in addition not to go bankrupt. He affirms that during all this period, its incomes are quite lower than those of a workman. He designs a material of formation of the Medical representatives, which is made known persons in charge of the training of the visitors of the pharmaceutical laboratories.

In 1971 the company APERTURE developed and starts economically to become viable. Robert Barcia explains that not to personally have the future benefit of the company, which would be contrary with its " ethics militante" , the five paid company join to form a limited liability company of which each one has a fifth of the shares. In 1980 in order to profit from regular incomes, it becomes paid of a small firm of study, the EPMED, of which it agrees in 1990 to take again 20% of the shares. It takes its retirement in 1993, without never neither the APERTURE, nor the EPMED, which has only some employees, never empoché benefit. Until 1998 he remains voluntary administrator, then resells his shares. According to the book of François Koch, Barcia “would be shareholder and leading several services companies with the industrialists of the Médicament since thirty years. It would have founded in Paris, in 1968 and 1971, Epmed (Studies and publicity médico-pharmaceutical) and the APERTURE (Organization promotion prospection marketing), two specialized companies in the performance of service and the formation of Medical representatives, which canvass the doctors for the account of an industrialist. Barcia would be also one of the cofounders of the Association of the directors of networks of medical visit (Adrev), in 1973. In 1989, whereas the profession must obtain an obligatory diploma, it is with him that the owners of laboratory would have bought a training program medical, via the National union of the drug company (SNIP)”. “During all this period, Hardy , the Pseudonyme of Robert Barcia” would have become “an interlocutor of the National union of the drug company, powerful employers' lobby, at the point to find themselves, after 1984, to advise remunerated trade union”.

According to this detractor, this double life would make of Barcia a “collaborator of employers the day and a intransigent Trotski co. the evening”. The shareholders and administrators of these companies would be also “leaders of LO, as François Duburg which one discovers the true name with the trade register, Maurice Schroedt”.

November 22nd, 2001, a judgment in call of the 1e room, section B, Court of Appeal of Paris condemns François Koch for slandering towards Robert Barcia because of these assertions, confirming the preceding judgment returned on May 5th, 2000 by the 1e room of the Court of Bankruptcy of Paris. This judgment made following a first judgment in slandering of this journalist towards the persons in charge of the EPMED and the APERTURE for a article published in the Express train (subsidiary company of the Havas group him even part of the Vivendi group).

May 5th, 2000, Nouvel Observateur is condemned for slandering towards Robert Barcia.

October 6th, 2005, Gabriel Cohn-Bendit and the newspaper Libération are condemned for public slandering towards Workers' struggle by the Court of Appeal of Paris to pour 3000 euros by way of damages and costs of proceedings to have " implied that the party Workers' struggle is given a financing illégal" , which brought the reader of the article " to suspect a complicity enters the political party and (of) companies, the remuneration of fictional jobs and a concealment of abuse good sociaux" , which the court estimates to be a " charge diffamatoire". The Court of Appeal refused to grant the excuse of the bona fide to the accused as those had pled.

A stop of the Court of Appeal of Paris of March 24th, 2005 condemns the Canal+ chain (subsidiary company of the Vivendi trust) and the journalist Victor Robert to have begun again these assertions within the framework of the emission the true newspaper of Marc Tellenne (alias Karl Zero).

Quotations

“It remains us to incarnate another prospect, that of a party really representing the political interests of the working class. It remains us to work so that a party is built which does not aim at being integrated in the current social order, was this with the stupid claim of being able to make it evolve/move in the good sense, but which, on the contrary, fights for the radical transformation of the company. A party which remains systematically in the camp of exploited, of oppressed, without giving up this camp for some ministerial position that it is. ”

“I do not work with my hands but I claim all the same to be a proletarian revolutionist”

“the fundamental aspect of our activity will continue to be the defense of the programme of emancipation of the hard-working class, the communist program. To defend this program above all in the working class because it is of it, and it only, which its future realization depends. To defend in particular near the workers who were found for a long time in or around the Communist party and which is discouraged, disorientated and with which it is necessary to give again confidence and show that the communist current did not disappear and that the future belongs to him”

“to train a young person and to transform it, it is necessary almost to live with, leave with him, to go to the cinema, to discuss all. It is necessary to propose to him to see it the every day, it is necessary to be his father, his mother, her brother, his sister, etc, it is necessary to be its medium with oneself all alone, to be that or that with which the young person is most dependant. One should not only like, it is necessary to be liked… so that one can make our revolutionary matter and to burn it with our flame”

“We do not prohibit with our militants to have children, writes it. This choice belongs to them, but to have and raise children will prevent really qualifying themselves and from devoting to our fight”

“We want to make known these ideas with a generation of young people, young workers as well as of students. It should not only be shown them that the world which is ours is, in a way or of another, intolerable for everyone, which the concentrations of richnesses between some hands while poverty spreads, are unbearable. As the idea is unbearable that the research of the profit of some led the Earth towards an ecological catastrophe as much as economic. ”

“It is possible to transform the company and each one, hard-working or student, can play his part there. It should be prevented that they are deceived by those which present old ideas reformists under modern colors. Who seek to mislead them by presenting some réformettes, a tax by-Ci, a lightening of debt by-there, like ideas for the future, whereas all that is not only ineffective but guarantees still and always the idea that capitalism would be reformable. Eh well not, the capitalist system is not reformable. ”

“We do not know more by which way, through which collective political experiments, a renewal of combativeness will lead a part of the world of work towards the ideas and the communist program. What we know, it is which the ideas that we defend today, there is only us to defend them. Then, we will continue to defend them whatever the direction of the dominant winds. If I were useful so much is little with the transmission of these ideas, my life will not have been useless. ”

Works

True story of Workers' struggle: Discussions with Christophe Bourseiller , Robert Barcia, Denoël, 2003, Denoël impacts, 326 pages, ISBN 2207254224

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