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| La Révolution prolétarienne | |
|---|---|
| Title | La Révolution prolétarienne |
| Discipline | Political periodical |
| Language | French |
| Country | France |
| Firstdate | 1925 |
| Finaldate | 1933 |
| Frequency | Monthly |
La Révolution prolétarienne was a French monthly political review founded in 1925 that became a central organ for revolutionary syndicalist, councilist, and libertarian Marxist currents during the interwar period. It intersected with contemporaneous movements and figures across Europe and Latin America, engaging debates that included the legacy of the Russian Revolution, the strategies of the Communist International, and the practices of the Industrial Workers of the World. The review served as a platform linking activists, theorists, and intellectuals from circles associated with syndicalism, anarchism, and dissident Bolshevism.
The review was established in Paris in 1925 by activists and intellectuals who had worked in the milieu of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT), the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, and former members of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO). Its foundation followed splits in the aftermath of the October Revolution and the formation of the Communist Party of France, drawing contributors from networks connected to the Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees and the Alliance libertaire. Early meetings involved figures who had engaged with the Zimmerwald Conference debates and contacts with émigrés from the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the Spanish CNT. The review's inception was influenced by critiques of the Bolshevik model articulated by émigré thinkers associated with the International Working Men's Association tradition and by veterans of the Paris Commune historiography.
From its outset the review articulated a position critical of the centralized model promoted by the Communist International and sympathetic to decentralized forms promoted by the IWW and the Federación Anarquista Ibérica minded activists. Its editorial line synthesized arguments from critics of Leninist organizational principles and from proponents of council communism who looked to the German Workers' and Soldiers' Councils and to the writings circulating among members of the KAPD. The review engaged with the theoretical legacies of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and also with heterodox interpretations by Rosa Luxemburg and Anton Pannekoek, while maintaining contacts with international libertarian currents represented by figures associated with the Italian Arditi del Popolo and the Mexican Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana.
Among principal editors and regular contributors were activists and writers who had been involved with the CGT and with dissident communist groupings, alongside intellectuals linked to the Collège de Sociologie milieu and to Parisian avant-garde circles. Notable names appearing in the pages included veterans of the Dreyfus Affair era debates, émigrés from the Weimar Republic left, and interlocutors from the Argentine FORA and the Bolivian miners' movement. Contributors also corresponded with activists in the United Kingdom labour movement, members of the Dutch Communist Workers' Party (NWSP), and proponents of workplace councils in Czechoslovakia. The review published articles by theoreticians conversant with the works of Maurice Thorez (critically), critics of Stalinism including exiles from the Soviet Union, and commentators in dialogue with the intellectual trajectories of Anatole France and Jean Jaurès.
The review covered a wide set of themes: analyses of strike movements inspired by the 1926 United Kingdom general strike and by industrial struggles in Belgium, commentaries on agrarian uprisings in Mexico and Russia, and critiques of party strategy as visible in debates during Comintern congresses. It serialized theoretical essays on workers' councils drawing on examples from the German Revolution and the Hungarian Soviet Republic, reported on mutinies and soldiers' councils linked to the aftermath of the First World War, and reviewed books by authors ranging from Antonio Gramsci (critically) to Emma Goldman. The review engaged in polemics with proponents of parliamentary socialism rooted in the SFIO leadership, debated syndicalist tactics used by the Confédération générale du travail révolutionnaire, and published translations of documents from the IWW archive and the Bulgarian anarchist movement.
Circulation remained modest but the review exerted disproportionate influence among militants and intellectuals in Parisian networks, drawing attention from editors at the New York Call and correspondents in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and Prague. It was discussed in the pages of the Worker's Dreadnought and monitored by officials of the Comintern and by police in the French Third Republic. Readers included syndicalists from the Confédération générale du travail unitaire and students associated with the École normale supérieure, as well as émigré activists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The review shaped debates that influenced the strategy of rank-and-file movements in Italy, informed pamphlets circulated among the Spanish CNT-FAI milieu, and contributed to international exchanges with libertarian socialist presses in Chile and Portugal.
By the early 1930s the review faced financial pressures, internal disputes over alignment with anti-fascist coalitions such as those endorsed at the London Conference of anti-fascist organizers, and the rising polarization triggered by events in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Circulation declined amid competing publications like La Révolution Prolétarienne's contemporaries in the Left Opposition press and emergent antifascist weeklies associated with the Popular Front formations. The review ceased regular publication in 1933 but its archives and several memoirs by contributors provided source material for later historians studying the interwar left, influencing scholarship at institutions such as the Collège de France and libraries preserving collections on the Paris Commune legacy. Its legacy persisted in postwar syndicalist reorganizations, in debates within the Socialist Workers Party (UK) milieu, and in later council communist revivals that referenced its critiques of centralized party practice.
Category:French political magazines Category:Defunct political magazines Category:Magazines established in 1925 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1933