Daniel Colson

Daniel Colson was a French sociologist and academic.
After discovering Marxism and anarchism while a student at the University of Lyon, Colson led the Lyon chapter of the and witnessed the events of May 68. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1983 and became a sociology professor at Jean [Monnet University]. In March 2016, he notably signed an open letter alongside Pierre Alféri,,, and Éric Hazan calling for labor reform.
Colson died on 9 January 2026, at the age of 82.

Publications

Anarcho-Syndicalisme et Communisme. Saint-Étienne 1920-1925
La compagnie des fonderies forges et aciéries de Saint-Étienne , autonomie et subjectivité techniques
Petit lexique philosophique de l'anarchisme de Proudhon à Deleuze
Trois essais de philosophie anarchiste : Islam, histoire, monadologie
L'Anarchisme de Malatesta
Proudhon et l'anarchie
''La Gryffe - La longue histoire d’une librairie libertaire''