Revolutionary Marxist Alliance
The Revolutionary Marxist Alliance was a Trotskyist movement with a Pabloist orientation, closely aligned with libertarian ideas and active from 1969 to 1974. It founded the publication L'Internationale in 1970. The AMR distinguished itself from other Trotskyist groups through its emphasis on and promotion of the concept and practices of self-management.
The first Revolutionary Marxist Alliance was established in 1969 by Pabloist activists who had split from the Fourth International in 1965. It dissolved in 1974 to join the Unified Socialist Party. This union was short-lived, as its members later left to establish the Communist Committees for Self-Management alongside former activists from the Revolutionary Communist League.
Following the 1981 French presidential election, the "Tendency I" faction of the CCA revived the name AMR. Members of the original AMR, such as Gilbert Marquis and Michel Fiant, participated in this second AMR, while some later joined the Alternative Rouge et Verte and subsequently Les Alternatifs.
Origins
The movement was heavily influenced by activists like Michel Fiant and Gilbert Marquis, who were initially members of the Internationalist Communist Party. From 1953, Fiant served as secretary of the CGT union at the Derveaux factory in Bezons and led the Pabloist group during the PCI's split through entrism, ultimately joining the French Communist Party.Gilbert Marquis spent time in Yugoslavia, working with labor brigades supporting the regime of Josip Broz Tito against Joseph Stalin, and later became a permanent union representative for the CGT at Chausson factories in Gennevilliers.
Their entrism activities, supported by Michel Pablo, failed by 1958 when the PCF purged the activists behind Tribune de discussion, marking the end of this strategic approach.