He is one of the leaders in the Paris commune: who is Jean Allemane?
He advocated the abolition of national armies and the need to oppose the war at the international level.
(1843-1935) French trade unionist. He is one of the founders of the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party. He was born in Sauveterre, Haute-Garonne, in France, and died in Herblay, Val-d'Oise. joined the Paris Commune of 1871; For this reason, he was sentenced to life on the shovel and sent to New Caledonia in 1873. When he was pardoned in 1880, he returned to France. He joined the French Socialist Party and joined the Socialist Workingmen's Federation, founded by Paul Brousse in 1882. He founded the Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party in 1890. In 1902 and 1906 he was elected as a deputy of Paris.
The main socialist forces in France in the 1890s were the French Workers' Party, the Socialist Workingmen's Federation, the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party led by Allemane, and the Independent Socialists centered around Millerand and Jaures. After they first united in two parties, II. In accordance with the decision taken at the Amsterdam Congress of the International, they united in 1905 to form the French Socialist Party (S.F.I.O.).
Allemane argued that the trade union struggles of the workers are of primary importance and that their political actions should develop accordingly; argued that the general strike was the only weapon that would ensure the superiority of the workers. He advocated the abolition of national armies and the need to oppose the war at the international level. However, these views of Jean Allemane did not find many supporters in the messy environment of the French workers' movement at the beginning of the 20th century.
Works of Jean Allemane
Memoires d'un Communard, 1910, ("Memoirs of a Communard").