Jacques Ramboz Papers

Period 1949-1999
Total size   0.17 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Paris 1917, died in 1999; teacher and Trotskyist activist; in the 1930s member of the Jeunesses Communistes (JC) and the Parti Communiste Français (PCF); opposed to the `Front Populaire' policy of the PCF he left the party in 1938; became a Trotskyist through M. Barta; during the Second World War a militant member of the Groupe Communiste (IVème internationale), which later changed into the Union Communiste (Trotskyste) (UC); published its journal La Lutte de Classes 1946-1949; from 1949 teacher in Tunesia and from 1957 in the Département du Gard in France; from 1966 involved in the Comité Viêtnam Nîmois and its Cercle d'étude; author of the UC pamphlet `La Guerre d'Indohine et les travailleurs français' and of some articles for the Quaderni Pietro Tresso, including `Contribution à l'histoire de l'Union Communiste (Trotskyste) (1940-1950)'.

Content

Biographical notes 1997, 1999; correspondence 1974, 1985, 1988-1999; pamphlets 1949-1999 (non published) and notes on a wide range of social and political subjects, including Tunesia, Marocco, immigrants, the strikes of Herstal and Rhodiacéta, the Spanish civil war, Jews and Zionism and Vietnam; photocopies of appeals, circulars, newsletters, evaluation reports and other texts of the Comité Viêtnam Nîmois and its Cercle d'étude, including a declaration on its dissolution in 1973; photocopies of Lettre Viêtnam 1973-1975.