The Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees (French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

: Comités syndicalistes révolutionnaires, CSR) were a trade-unionist organization created in 1919 by Pierre Monatte

Pierre Monatte

Pierre Monatte was a French trade unionist who worked in the printing industry . He was the responsible of the Confédération générale du travail at the beginning of the 20th century, and founded its journal La Vie ouvrière on 5 October 1909...

 inside 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...

(CGT, General Confederation of Labour) trade-union. It grouped the revolutionary syndicalists who were opposed to the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 and to the CGT's collaboration with the government.

Pierre Monatte became the CSR general secretary in 1921. They boasted 300,000 members. Meanwhile, the revolutionary syndicalists quickly became again in majority inside the CGT, and in 1921, following the equivalent of the 1920 Tours Congress

Tours Congress

The Tours Congress was the 18th National Congress of the French Section of the Workers' International, or SFIO, which took place in Tours on 25—30 December 1920...

 for the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO, socialist party), a split divided Léon Jouhaux

Léon Jouhaux

Léon Jouhaux was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951.Jouhaux's father worked in a match factory in Aubervilliers. His secondary schooling ended when his father's earnings were stopped by a strike. He gained employment at the factory at age sixteen and immediately...

's reformist trade-unionists with other revolutionary members, who founded the CGTU.

After Monatte's exclusion from the French Communist Party

French Communist Party

The French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a large membership, behind only that of the Union for a Popular Movement , and considerable influence in French...

 (PCF) in 1924, he created along with other ex-members the Ligue syndicaliste (Syndicalist League) to organize again the revolutionary syndicalists. They published the Révolution prolétarienne (Proletarian Revolution) journal which succeeded to Monatte's Vie Ouvrière.

In 1936, the CGT and the CGTU re-unified themselves, an event in which the Syndicalist League's initiative of launching the Comité des 22 (Committee of the 22) grouping together since 1924 known activists of the CGT, the CGTU and autonomous trade-unionis. The following year, however, some revolutionary syndicalists opposed both to the parties' influence on the trade unions and to inner bureaucracy

Bureaucracy

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 split to form the Cercles Syndicalistes Lutte de Classe (Syndicalist Circles Class Struggle).

Following the 1995 strikes, a trade-unionist current took again the name, claiming itself of its founders. They included members of the CGT, Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques

Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques

The Solidaires or Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques is a French group of trade unions.-Political position:They tend to favor progressive or even radical views and work with the alter-globalization or anti-globalization movement....

 (SUD) and the CNT-Vignoles, and publish a journal called Syndicaliste!.