Pierre Besnard

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Pierre Besnard (8 October 1886 – 19 February 1947) was a French revolutionary syndicalist. He was the Confederal Secretary of the Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire (CGT-SR) from 1929, and the Secretary of the International Workers' Association.

Bibliography

• Les syndicats ouvriers et la révolution sociale, Paris, 1930
• Le monde nouveau, CGT-SR, 1936
• L'éthique du syndicalisme, CGT-SR, 1936

Besnard was also a contributor to Sébastien Faure's Encyclopédie anarchiste.

External links

• Biography of Pierre Besnard from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
• Fondation Pierre Besnard (French)