Alexandre Hébert (4 March 1921,

Alvimare Alvimare () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography A farming village situated some east of Le Havre, at the junction of the N15 and the D104. Population Places of interest * The wo ...

Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inféri ...

- 16 January 2010), Michel Noblecourt, « Alexandre Hébert : anarcho-syndicaliste », ''Le Monde'' daté du 27 janvier 2010, p. 24 was a French activist, anarchist and trade unionist. He had a pivotal role in the accession of anarchists to the French trade-unions congress

Workers' Force The General Confederation of Labor - Workers' Force (french: Confédération Générale du Travail - Force Ouvrière, or simply , FO), is one of the five major union confederations in France. In terms of following, it is the third behind the CGT ...

(CGT-FO). He became secretary of the departmental union of ''Loire Atlantique'', from its inception, as well as Raymond Patoux, secretary of the departmental union of ''Maine et Loire'', as shown by the research ''Libertaires et syndicalistes révolutionnaires dans la Confédération Générale du Travail - Force Ouvrière (1946-1957)'' by Guillaume Trousset, and''L'Union Départementale CGT-Force ouvrière de Maine et Loire de 1948 à 195'' by Manuella Noyer. He played an important role in the accession to these unions of militants of the autonomous ''Fédération de l'Education Nationale'' in 1982, 1983 and 1984. Its activities of militant trade unionism had been permanently in the style set out by

Fernand Pelloutier Fernand-Léonce-Émile Pelloutier (1 October 1867, in Paris – 13 March 1901, in Sèvres) was a French anarchist and syndicalist. He was the leader of the ''Bourses du Travail'', a major French trade union, from 1895 until his death in 1901. H ...

in the letter to his anarchist friends ''Lettre aux anarchistes'' in 1899. He didn't cease to fight against all the followers (official and unofficial) of trade unionism who were subservient to political parties, Christian trade unionism, autonomous trade unionism, partisan trade unionism, and all varieties of company sponsored or integrated trade unionism; he could never get along with the followers of all these sorts of trade unionism! A fighter for workers' emancipation in all circumstances, he did not hesitate to separate himself from some of his anarchist fellows who took another way, including that of joining the varieties of Christian trade unionism. As a militant anarchist, he was of those who reconstructed the anarchist movement after the second world war, through the ''Fédération anarchiste''; in 1954, he was one of those who reconstructed the ''Fédération anarchist'' destroyed by the Leninist action of Georges Fontenis; in 1961, he contributed with his followers of the ''Groupe Fernand Pelloutier'' to the publication of the news bulletin L'Anarcho-syndicaliste, prelude to the constitution of the Union des anarcho-syndicalistes. Not having any sectarianism, he tried at all times to gather together the activist workers anxious to preserve the independence of trade unions; a friend of Pierre Boussel alias

Pierre Lambert : Pierre Lambert (real name Pierre Boussel; June 9, 1920 – January 16, 2008) was a French Trotskyist leader, who for many years acted as the central leader of the French Courant Communiste Internationaliste (CCI) which founded the Parti d ...

, he certainly helped the abandonment by the members of his Trotskyist party of the Marxist–Leninist-Trotskyist idea of the need to link the unions to the “revolutionary party”.

Free-thinker Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and that beliefs should instead be reached by other methods ...

, secular activist, and rationalist, he took part in the initiative of the l'Appel aux laïqueSerge Mahé "La contre-révolution permanente p.59 against the policy concerning the public schools and the institutions of the Republic followed by the President of the Republic

François Mitterrand François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was President of France, serving under that position from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office in the history of France. As First Secretary of the Socialist Party, he ...

References

External links

meltl.com

www.pelloutier.net

www.pelloutier.net
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hebert, Alexandre 1921 births 2010 deaths People from Seine-Maritime Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party politicians French anarchists Members of the General Confederation of Labour (France) Workers' Force members