Michel Ravelli Papers

Period 1952-1975
Total size   0.87 m.
ConsultationNot restricted

Biography

Born in Paris 1920, died 2006; studied and lectured philosophy; joined after 1945 the Trotskyist movement of which he became one of the leaders alongside Michel Raptis (Pablo); chose the side of Raptis in the ruptures of the Fourth International; in the years 1968-1972 responsible for the periodical Sous le Drapeau du Socialisme in which he advocated workers’ control; left the Pablist wing about 1972-1973, since then considers himself an anarcho-communist and militant activist.

Content

Correspondence, internal bulletins and other documents of the Parti Communiste Internationaliste (PCI), the Tendance Marxiste-Révolutionnaire (TMR) and other groups, linked to the Fourth International 1963-1972, of the Alliance Marxiste Révolutionnaire (AMR) 1969-1972 and of the Organisation Révolutionnaire Anarchiste (ORA) 1974-1975; documents on the Comité d’Initiative pour un Mouvement Révolutionnaire (CIMR) 1968-1971; documents on the Groupe de Liaison pour l’Autogestion 1968-1969; documentation on Marxist theory and Marxist-Leninist groups 1952-1971 and on workers’ control 1965-1971.