Alfred Rosmer

Alfred Rosmer (1877 - 1964) was a syndicalist leader before World War I and one of the few leaders of that movement to oppose the war from a revolutionary internationalist position.

A friendship with Leon Trotsky dated from that period, when the latter was living in Paris. After the war he became a leading figure in the Communist Party of France before being ousted as early as 1924, along with Boris Souvarine and Pierre Monatte, for opposing Stalinism and the elimination of the Old Bolsheviks, as that party underwent so called "Leninisation". He then became a leader of the early Trotskyist movement only to drop out of politics in 1932.

Nevertheless he remained a convinced revolutionary and his friendship with Trotsky was later repaired. The founding congress of the Trotskyist Fourth International was held at his home outside Paris.

elected Articles/Works

*Lenin's Moscow
*Trotsky and the Origins of Trotskyism

See also Revolutionary History, vol 7, no 4 (Autumn 2000) (special issue on Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer).

External links

* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/rosmer/index.htm "Alfred Rosmer Internet Archive"]
* [http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=4619 "They kept the flame of revolution burning"] (2004 article on Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer by Ian Birchall).
* [http://www.workersaction.org.uk/rosmer.htm Alfred Rosmer: "Trotsky in Paris during World War I: Recollections of a Comrade and Co-worker"]