Victor Griffuelhes (14 March 1874,

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– 30 June 1922, Saclas) was a French

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and leader of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) in France.A. Thomas Lane. ''Biographical dictionary of European labor leaders''. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 1995. pp. 533. He was drawn to anarcho-syndicalism and advocated the establishment of socialism through independent

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action.

Dreyfus affair

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, 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'', n°15, 23 April 1908 * ''L'Action syndicaliste'', Bibliothèque du mouvement socialiste, IV, Librairie des sciences politiques et sociales, Paris, Marcel Rivière, 1908
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* « Le syndicalisme révolutionnaire », ''La Publication sociale'', coll. Bibliothèque d'études syndicalistes, , 1909 * « De 1899 à 1909 : la leçon du passé », ''La Vie ouvrière'', n°1, 5 October 1909Complete text
* ''À propos d'un livre'' (Comment nous ferons la Révolution, par Pataud et Pouget), La Vie ouvrière, n°5, 5 December 190
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* With Louis Mercier-Vega, ''Anarcho-syndicalisme et syndicalisme révolutionnaire'', , Paris, 1978

Bibliography

* Delpont Hubert, ''Victor Griffuellhes, un Lot-et-Garonnais fondateur de la CGT'', Agen, 1983, 40 p. * Vandervort Bruce : ''Victor Griffuelhes and French Syndicalism 1895-1922'', Baton Rouge, 1996, 278 p. * Flax, ''Victor Griffuelhes'', , n°56, 1909, complete text
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References

External links

Eduiard Dolléans, ''Histoire du mouvement ouvrier'', volume 2, page 85

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1874 births 1922 deaths Anarcho-syndicalists People from Nérac Members of the General Confederation of Labour (France) French socialists French syndicalists {{France-activist-stub