Boris Souvarine, also known as Varine, was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist and journalist.
Boris Souvarine
Souvarine was strongly affected by World War I.
Following the October Revolution, Gorki employed Souvarine as a correspondent for Novaya Zhizn.
Souvarine's motion at the SFIO's Tours Congress founded what is today the French Communist Party.
Pierre Monatte was a French trade unionist, a founder of the Confédération générale du travail at the beginning of the 20th century, and founder of its journal La Vie Ouvrière on 5 October 1909. Monatte has been considered one of the great figures of revolutionary syndicalism.
Monatte c. 1915