Pierre Monatte (15 January 188127 June 1960) was a
French trade unionist, a founder of the ''
Confédération générale du travail
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'' (CGT, Generation Confederation of Labour) at the beginning of the
20th century
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, and founder of its journal ''
La Vie Ouvrière
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'' (Workers' Life) on 5 October 1909. Monatte has been considered one of the great figures of
revolutionary syndicalism
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.
Life
Monatte was born on 15 January 1881.
Alphonse Merrheim
Alphonse Adolphe Merrheim (7 May 1871 – 23 October 1923) was a French copper smith and trade union leader.
Early years
Alphonse Adolphe Merrheim was born on 7 May 1871 in La Madeleine, Nord, a suburb of Lille.
He became a coppersmith, and adopt ...
arrived in Paris in 1904, and soon afterward, he met Monatte at the office of ''Pages Libres''. The two men would work together to launch ''
La Vie Ouvrière
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States.
La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figur ...
(The Worker's Life)''.
In 1914 Monatte and
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 ...
led the internationalist core of ''La Vie ouvrière (The Worker's Life)''.
Monatte often referred himself to