Libération-Nord was one of the principal resistance movements in the northern occupied zone

Zone occupée

The zone occupée was the area of France where German occupying troops were deployed during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne...

 of France

France

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 during the Second World War.

It was one of the eight great networks to make up the National Council of the Resistance.

History

Initially an underground newspaper, from December 1940 to November 1941 Libération-Nord was transformed into a resistance movement. Aiming to express the secret movements of the non-communist unions among the Confédération générale du travail

Confédération générale du travail

The General Confederation of Labour is a national trade union center, the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions.It is the largest in terms of votes , and second largest in terms of membership numbers.Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995-96 The General...

  the Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens

Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens

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 and the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière

Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière

The French Section of the Workers' International , founded in 1905, was a French socialist political party, designed as the local section of the Second International...

 (SFIO), Libération-Nord was formed around Christian Pineau

Christian Pineau

Christian Pineau was a noted French Resistance fighter.He was born in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France and died in Paris.His father-in-law was the writer Jean Giraudoux, who was married to Pineau's mother...

 and the team of the Manifeste des douze. The movement was not entirely socialist

Socialism

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 but the leadership was socialist.

In 1942, two resistance networks were created from within Libération-Nord under the command of the Bureau central de renseignements et d'action

Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action

The Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action , commonly referred as the BCRA was the World War II-era forerunner of the SDECE, the French intelligence service...

:

• Phalanx in the zone Sud, created by Christian Pineau
• Cohors-Asturies in the zone Nord.

In early 1943 Libération-Nord began to organise armed groups under the impetus of Jean Cavaillès

Jean Cavailles

Jean Cavaillès , was a French philosopher and mathematician, specialized in philosophy of science. He took part in the French Resistance within the Libération movement and was shot by the Gestapo on February 17, 1944....

 and Colonel Zarapoff. Represented at the National Council of the Resistance, where he exerted the influence of the underground SFIO, the movement withheld its participation from the Mouvements unis de la Résistance

Mouvements Unis de la Résistance

Mouvements Unis de la Résistance was a French Resistance organisation, resulting from the regrouping of three major Resistance movements in January 1943 and also the merger of the military arms of these movements within the Armée secrète . Its committee was headed by Jean Moulin...

 in December 1943.

With the instar of the Organisation civile et militaire

Organisation civile et militaire

The Organisation civile et militaire was one of the great movements of the French Resistance in the zone occupée, the northern German-occupied region of France, during the Second World War....

, Libération-Nord failed to created a great workers' party with its origins in the resistance.

Principal members

• Jean-Baptiste Daviais
• Pierre Boursicot
• Jean Cavaillès
• Michel Collinet
• Marcel Mérigonde
• Christian Pineau
• François Tanguy-Prigent
  François Tanguy-Prigent
  François Tanguy-Prigent was a French politician and resistance fighter. ....
  
  
• Colonel Zarapoff
• Jean Aimé Caillau