Victor Griffuelhes

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Victor Griffuelhes, 1906.
Syndicalism
"The Hand That Will Rule The World—One Big Union"

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[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b A. Thomas Lane. Biographical dictionary of European labor leaders. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 1995. Pp. 533.
  2. ^ Ni droite ni gauche, l'idéologie fasciste en France (Neither right nor left, the fascist ideology in France), Zeev Sternhell, Folio Histoire, 2012, p. 195