Pierre Besnard (8 October 1886 – 19 February 1947) was a French

revolutionary syndicalist Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence i ...

. He was the Secretary of the

Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire The Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire (General Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions) was a trade union federation in France founded in 1926 by Pierre Besnard with the help of the Spanish CNT. It was affil ...

(CGT-SR) from 1929, and the Secretary of the

International Workers' Association International Workers' Association may refer to: * International Workingmen's Association The International Workingmen's Association (IWA), often called the First International (1864–1876), was an international organisation which aimed at ...

Selected works

*''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 Sébastien Faure (6 January 1858 – 14 July 1942) was a French anarchist, freethought and secularist activist and a principal proponent of synthesis anarchism. Biography Before becoming a free-thinker, Faure was a seminarist. He engage ...

's '' Encyclopédie anarchiste''.

Bibliography

External links

Biography of Pierre Besnard
from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
Fondation Pierre Besnard
French anarchists Anarcho-syndicalists 1886 births 1947 deaths {{Anarchist-stub