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Gaston Monmousseau
Gaston Monmousseau (17 January 1883 – 11 July 1960) was a French railway worker, trade union leader, politician and author, from a rural working-class background. He became an anarcho-syndicalist, then a communist, and played a leading role in the French Communist Party and in the national trade union movement both before and after World War II (1939–45).
Early years.
Gaston Monmousseau was born on 17 January 1883 in Luynes, Indre-et-Loire.
His parents
in February 1921.
Monmousseau was secretary-general of the Association of Trade Unions of the Paris district from 1921 to 1922.
In January 1922 he replaced Pierre Monatte in running "La Vie Ouvrière". He would be director of this journal until 1960.
As a member of the anarcho-syndicalist minority of the CGT, Gaston Monmousseau became General Secretary of the United General Confederation of Labor (CGTU: "Confédération générale du travail unitaire") after the split between CGT reformists and revolutionaries, a position he