Victor Griffuelhes
French activist (1874-1922)
Victor Griffuelhes (French: [ɡʁifɥɛl]; 14 March 1874, Nérac – 30 June 1922, Saclas) was a French socialist and leader of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) in France. He was drawn to anarcho-syndicalism and advocated the establishment of socialism through independent trade union action.
Dreyfus affair
According to Zeev Sternhell, Griffuelhes, like Emile Pouget, has been indifferent to the Dreyfus Affair, seeing it as a bourgeois mystification to distract the people from true issues.
Publications
"Romantisme révolutionnaire", L'Action directe, no. 15, 23 April 1908
L'Action syndicaliste, Bibliothèque du mouvement socialiste, IV, Librairie des sciences politiques et sociales, Paris, Marcel Rivière, 1908
"Le syndicalisme révolutionnaire", La Publication sociale, coll. Bibliothèque d'études syndicalistes, no. 1, 1909
"De 1899 à 1909 : la leçon du passé", La Vie ouvrière, no. 1, 5 October 1909
"À propos d'un livre" (Comment nous ferons la Révolution, par Pataud et Pouget), La Vie ouvrière, no. 5, 5 December 1909
With Louis Mercier-Vega, Anarcho-syndicalisme et syndicalisme révolutionnaire, Éditions Spartacus, Paris, 1978
References
Bibliography
Vandervort, Bruce (1996). Victor Griffuelhes and French Syndicalism 1895-1922.
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