David Korner (also known as Barta, Albert, and A. Mathieu; October 19, 1914-September 6, 1976) was a Romanian and French communist militant, trade unionist, and journalist. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming A Trotskyist for most of his life, he was active in the labor movement of France from the 1930s to the 1960s. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better
Born into a Jewish family, Korner was a member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1932-1933. The history of Jews in Romania concerns the Jews of Romania and of Romanian origins from their first mention on what is nowadays Romanian territory The Romanian Communist Party ( Romanian: ro Partidul Comunist Român, PCR was a communist political party in Romania. [1][2] In July 1933, alongside Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Constantin Doncea and other PCR activists, he was brought to trial in front of a Bucharest court for his part in convening the Griviţa Strike, and ultimately sentenced to 18 months in jail. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (born Gheorghe Gheorghiu; November 8 1901, Bârlad - March Bucharest ( Romanian: Bucureşti) is the Capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. The Griviţa Strike of 1933 was a railway strike which was started at the Griviţa Workshops, Bucharest, Romania, on February 16, 1933 [2]
Recruited to Trotskyism as a student in Paris in the 1934, he formed the Bolshevik Leninist Group of Romania upon his return to Romania (April 1935). Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city [1] The latter faction opposed the Stalinist PCR, as well as the Social Democrats and the Unitary Socialist Party of Leon Ghelerter. Stalinism is the political regime named after Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1929–1953 The Romanian Social Democratic Party ( Romanian: Partidul Social Democrat Român, or Partidul Social Democrat, PSD) was a social-democratic [1] When the Spanish Civil War and the June 1936 strikes took place, Korner again returned to France and was a member of the Internationalist Workers Party (POI). The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal by Employees to perform work. [1]
In line with Leon Trotsky's advice to his French followers to enter the Workers and Peasants Socialist Party (PSOP) he joined that party and stood on its far left (see French Turn). Leon Trotsky ( Russian:, Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Leo, Lyev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij The Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party ( Parti socialiste ouvrier et paysan, PSOP) was an ephemeral socialist organisation in France, formed Ultra-left|Radical left|Radicalism (historical|Hard left Far left and extreme left are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within a Political spectrum The French Turn was the name given to the entry between 1934 and 1936 of the French Trotskyists into the Section Française de l'International Ouvrière [1] Upon the start of World War II, as the PSOP collapsed, he formed the tiny Trotskyist Group in opposition to what he considered the petty bourgeois methods of organization of the other French Trotskyist groups, as well as to the politics of mainstream socialist party (the French Section of the Workers' International). World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution [1] This group was active in clandestinity under the Nazi German occupation of France, and later became the Communist Union (UC). Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers The German occupation of France in World War II occurred during the period between May 1940 to December 1944 [1]
The group concentrated on factory work but also maintained the regular production of its political publications and took part in agitation against the colonial politics of France. France was a dominant empire in the world from the 1600s to the late 1960s possessing many colonies in various locations around the world The factory work came to fruition with the Renault strike of 1947, which Korner's group helped lead and organize. This is about the company for other uses see Renault (disambiguation. [1] The request for support addressed by the newly-formed Democratic Trade Union of Renault (SDR) was accepted by the UC, which effectively caused a merger between the two. [1]
While the SDR broke apart in 1949, the political grouping was revived only briefly in 1950, without enlisting support; when some former militants of the UC began publishing Voix Ouvrière in 1956 (later known as Lutte Ouvrière), Barta did not partake in the move (although, as late as 1964, Bois, a leader of Voix Ouvrière, was still writing to him to request his involvement). Workers' Struggle ( Lutte Ouvrière) is the usual name under which the Communist Union ( Union Communiste) (Trotskyist a French Trotskyist Relations between Barta and the leadership of the Voix Ouvrière group until his death, in part because Barta believed that the group had wrongly appropriated his work and was philistine in its methods.