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Victor Griffuelhes (14 March 1874, Nérac – 30 June 1922, Saclas) was a French socialist and leader of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) in France.^[1] He was drawn to anarcho-syndicalism and advocated the establishment of socialism through independent trade union action.^[1]

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.^[2]

Publications

• « Romantisme révolutionnaire », L'Action directe, n°15, 23 April 1908^[3]
• L'Action syndicaliste, Bibliothèque du mouvement socialiste, IV, Librairie des sciences politiques et sociales, Paris, Marcel Rivière, 1908, Complete text
• « Le syndicalisme révolutionnaire », La Publication sociale, coll. Bibliothèque d'études syndicalistes, No. 1, 1909^[4]
• « De 1899 à 1909 : la leçon du passé », La Vie ouvrière, n°1, 5 October 1909^[5]
• À propos d'un livre (Comment nous ferons la Révolution, par Pataud et Pouget), La Vie ouvrière, n°5, 5 December 1909 Complete text
• With Louis Mercier-Vega, Anarcho-syndicalisme et syndicalisme révolutionnaire, Éditions Spartacus [fr], 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, Les Hommes du jour [fr], n°56, 1909, complete text.

References

External links

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• Eduiard Dolléans, Histoire du mouvement ouvrier, volume 2, page 85
• Notice sur le site de l'IHS CGT
• Les textes de Griffuelhes sur Pelloutier.net

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