Pierre Morain
French anarchist communist · France · On the map · Activists · Lived 1930 to 2013 · aged 83
Pierre Morain was a building worker, a trades unionist, a militant libertarian communist and an anti-colonialist activist. For most purposes he would be considered a Frenchman.
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However, when he faced trial in connection with a newspaper article he had written opposing the government position in respect of the Algerian War, the president of the court noticed that his nineteen co-defendants were all Algerian and felt it necessary to clarify Morain's nationality: "But you .. are nevertheless French". Morain's defiant clarification is often requoted when Pierre Morain is discussed: "No, I'm not French. I'm a worker". When he was arrested on 29 May 1955 Morain became the first French anti-colonialist activist to be sent to prison for supporting Algerian independence.
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