Pierre Monatte
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Monatte c. 1915
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| Born | 15 January 1881 |
| Died | 27 June 1960 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Printer |
| Known for | Trade unionism |
Pierre Monatte (15 January 1881 – 27 June 1960) was a French trade unionist, a founder of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT, Generation Confederation of Labour) at the beginning of the 20th century, and founder of its journal La Vie Ouvrière (Workers' Life) on 5 October 1909. Monatte has been considered one of the great figures of revolutionary syndicalism.
Pierre Monatte was born on 15 January 1881. He became a worker in the printing industry.Alphonse Merrheim arrived in Paris in 1904, and soon after met Monatte at the office of Pages Libres. The two men would work together to launch La Vie Ouvrière (The Worker's Life). In 1914 Pierre Monatte and Alfred Rosmer led the internationalist core of La Vie ouvrière (The Worker's Life).
Monatte often referred himself to Fernand Pelloutier and did not disguise his anarchist sympathies, although he drifted away from this current of Socialism after the International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam in 1907. During this congress, Monatte argued in particular with Errico Malatesta concerning the methods of organisation: invoking the 1906 Charter of Amiens which established the principle of "political neutrality" of the trade-unions, Monatte considered syndicalism itself to be revolutionary, while Malatesta advocated the creation of some sort of anarchist organisation to superate internal conflicts among the workers' movement itself.
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