Benoît Broutchoux

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Benoît Broutchoux

Benedict Broutchoux (November 7, 1879 - June 2, 1944) was an anarchist opposed to Emile Basly.

He was born in Essertenne not far from Montceau-les-Mines, the eldest of eight children. His father was Sébastien Broutchoux, a steelworker.

He began farming at a young age and at fourteen, he was a juvenile at Monceau-les-Mines. In 1898 in Paris, on a road construction site called Subway, he began to attend circles of unionists and anarchists.

He returned to Monceau-les-Mines in spring 1900 and continued to advocate for the cause anarcho-unionist. On June 2, 1900, after the death of a steelworker striker named Fog who was killed by the police, he declared, in a violent speech at the funeral: that Fog was arrested and convicted for "excitation murder and looting, insult to the Army and offensive words in parliamentary government. "

In 1902 he was hired under a false name in Lens. In October of that year a strike broke out for 8 hours. He opposed the "old" reformist miners' union controlled by Emile Basly. He was again sentenced for "infringement of the freedom to work" and "identity theft".

He was released from prison in 1903 and then became involved in the "Young Union" and editor of the newspaper "Le Réveil union" and "Trade union action."

On March 10, 1906, was the Courrières disaster, of which there was 1,101 victims. The strike swept the entire basin and Benoit was arrested while walking with strikers on the 2000 mayor of Lens.

He was discharged at the end of May while still continued to edit the "action association" with a small printing press.

In 1906 he took part in the Congress of Amiens of the CGT with Georges and Pierre Monatte Dumoulin. The [[anarcho-syndicalist[[ had undermined the minority. The Charter of Amiens, affirmed the defence claims and immediate daily, and the struggle for a transformation of society as a whole entirely independently of political parties and the State. This charter is still claimed by the CGT and other unions (FP, CNT ...).

In August 1907, he took part in the anarchist International Congress of Amsterdam. The congress focused on the relationship between unionism and anarchism. He lived with strong opposition among Monate and Errico Malatesta: Monate defended revolutionary trade unionism, while Maltesta thought unionism could only be reformist.

Shortly before the Congress, he escaped the police following a meeting, which was organized to protest against the arrest of his friend Andre Lorulot. In January 1912, he was sentenced to a year in prison after escaping in the penal colony, amnestied in July of that year.

In 1914, recorded in the "Book B" (list of the main suspect anarchists), he was arrested and sent to the front. In 1916, he was gassed during a German attack. He was then hired as a taxi driver in the CGT (General Company taxis). It works when the "QED" pacifist Sébastien Faure, and then to "Libertaire."

He took part in the Congress of the CGT Lille, in Lille in 1921, which followed the Congress of the Socialist Party Tours, and was shot by a fellow reformist ".

In 1925 his health is deteriorated and in 1931, his son, Germinal, was killed by the police at the age of 26.

In 1940, in poverty, and ill, he took refuge in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and died on June 2, 1944.

His anarchism was not doctrinaire. It was because of unionism, antiparlementarisme, free thought, free love, neo-Malthusianism and lots of banter. Pierre Monatte about Benedict Broutchoux

A comic book The Adventures stunning and truthful Benedict Broutchoux by Phil Casoar and Stephane Callens was published in 1979. It is in the style of the first comics of Nickelés feet, with a narrative text below each image.