''La Révolution prolétarienne'' was a

syndicalist Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the left-wing of the labor movement that seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of pr ...

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

established by

Pierre Monatte Pierre Monatte (15 January 188127 June 1960) was a French trade unionist, a founder of the ''Confédération générale du travail'' (CGT, Generation Confederation of Labour) at the beginning of the 20th century, and founder of its journal ''La Vi ...

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). H ...

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

French Communist Party The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Unit ...

and advocating affiliation to the

Comintern The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet Union, Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to ...

. By 1924 he was becoming increasingly critical of the

autocracy Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power over a state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject neither to external legal restraints nor to regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perh ...

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

Bolshevism Bolshevism (from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Marxist–Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, fo ...

and

Communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

. After writing an open letter to party members with

Alfred Rosmer Alfred Rosmer (born Alfred Griot, 23 August 1877 – 6 May 1964) was an American-born French Communist political activist and historian who was a leading member of the Comintern. Rosmer is best remembered as a political associate of Leon Trotsky a ...

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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