Alfred Rosmer (1877 - 1964) was a syndicalist leader before World War I and one of the few leaders of that movement to oppose the war from a revolutionary internationalist position. 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Syndicalism is a political and economic ideology which advocates giving control of both industry and government to labor union federations. ... Combatants Allied Powers: France Italy Russia Serbia United Kingdom United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

A friendship with Leon Trotsky dated from that period, when the latter was living in Paris. After the war he became a leading figure in the Communist Party of France before being ousted as early as 1924 for opposing Stalinism and the elimination of the Old Bolsheviks, as that party underwent so called "Leninisation". He then became a leader of the early Trotskyist movement only to drop out of politics in 1932.   (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий) (Latinized: Lev Davidovič Trokij; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) (November 7, 1879 [O.S. October 26] – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ...   City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area... The French Communist Party (Parti communiste français or PCF) was founded in 1920. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Joseph Stalin. ... An Old Bolshevik (старый большевик) was a member of the Bolsheviks before the Russian Revolution. ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...

Nevertheless he remained a convinced revolutionary and his friendship with Trotsky was later repaired. The founding congress of the Trotskyist Fourth International was held at his home outside Paris. The Fourth International (FI) is Trotskyisms international organization. ...

Selected Articles/Works

• Lenin's Moscow
• Trotsky and the Origins of Trotskyism

See also Revolutionary History, vol 7, no 4 (Autumn 2000) (special issue on Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer). Revolutionary History is a British journal dedicated to the history of the far left. ...

External links

• Alfred Rosmer Internet Archive
• They kept the flame of revolution burning (2004 article on Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer by Ian Birchall).
• Alfred Rosmer: Trotsky in Paris during World War I: Recollections of a Comrade and Co-worker