Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees

The Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees (French: Comités Syndicalistes Révolutionnaires, CSR) were a trade-unionist organization inside the General Confederation of Labour (Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT). The group was founded in opposition to reformist French CGT leadership in the circle around Pierre Monatte and the Vie ouvrére newspaper. They created a coordinating entity after the September 1919 CGT congress and worked to develop inroads with specific member unions, with railroad workers in particular.

Monatte established a CSR Central Committee at a September 1921 opposition congress in Lyon. Revolutionary syndicalists formally separated from the CGT in December. They created a "Unitarian CGT" (CGTU) at the July 1922 Saint-Etienne congress.

Bibliography

• Damier, Vadim (2009) [2000]. Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century. Translated by Archibald, Malcolm. Edmonton: Black Cat Press. ISBN 978-0-9737827-6-9.
• Thorpe, Wayne (1989). The Workers Themselves. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-0276-1. LCCN 89-8205.

Further reading

• Amdur, Kathryn (1986). Syndicalist Legacy: Trade Unions and Politics in Two French Cities in the Era of World War I. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01238-0.
• Blakey, Christopher David (2011). 'March separately but strike together': the use of the united front tactic by Trotskyists in French trade unions (PhD). University of Warwick.
• Bulaitis, John (2018). Maurice Thorez: A Biography. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781786733689.
• Colson, Daniel; Cohn, Jesse (2018). "Proudhon, Lacan, and the Quilting Points". Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies (1): 81–97. ISSN 1923-5615.
• Fee, Annie (2014). "'Gaumont offers "La Russie rouge" and all Paris takes sides': Working-class activism in Paris cinemas, 1921–1922". Early Popular Visual Culture. 12 (2): 238–259. doi:10.1080/17460654.2014.923161.
• Gildea, Robert (1996). "Anarchism". The Past in French History. Yale University Press. pp. 260–299. ISBN 0300067119.
• Lorwin, Val Rogin (1966) [1954]. The French Labor Movement. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674322004.
• McIlroy, John (2013). "Léon Jouhaux, Louis Saillant and the national and international in transnational trade unionism". Labor History. 54 (5): 554–576. doi:10.1080/0023656X.2013.849927.
• Spenser, Daniela (2011). "Bolshevik Revolution on the March". Stumbling Its Way Through Mexico: The Early Years of the Communist International. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817317362.
• Thorpe, Wayne (1996). "Anarchosyndicalism in Inter-War France: The Vision of Pierre Besnard". European History Quarterly. 26 (4): 559–590. doi:10.1177/026569149602600403.
• Tosstorff, Reiner (2004). "From the First to the Second Congress of the RILU". The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937. Brill. pp. 422–608. doi:10.1163/9789004325579_007. ISBN 9789004325579.

External links

• Syndicaliste review (in French)