''La Révolution prolétarienne'' was a

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established by Pierre Monatte and

Robert Louzon Robert Louzon (1882–1976) was a French engineer, revolutionary syndicalist, anarchist and socialist. Louzon was involved in the ''Confédération générale du travail'' and then in the anarchist ''Confédération nationale du travail'' (CNT). ...

in Paris in 1925. Monatte was politically active for over twenty years as a syndicalist before joining the

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and advocating affiliation to the

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. By 1924 he was becoming increasingly critical of the

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he experienced in the party, which he saw as a denial of both

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and

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. After writing an open letter to party members with Alfred Rosmer and Delagarde on 24 November 1924, they were expelled before the conference held on 5 December 1924. He retained a view of himself as a communist and launched ''La Révolution prolétarienne'' as a monthly syndicalist-communist magazine. The first issue included a second open letter to members of the Communist Party. In 1939 ''La Révolution prolétarienne'' ceased publication, reappeared in 1947 and still exists.

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