Pierre Martin

French anarchist, anti-miltarist and pacifist.

A canut (worker), a travelling photographer, anarchist activist, anti-militarist, pacifist, animator of the Libertaire and the Revolutionary Communist Federation in the 1910s.

From the origins of the libertarian movement to the resistance to the 1914-1918 war, Pierre Martin was active for more than 45 years, but his role in French anarchism has often been underestimated. First one of the leaders of the  “anarchist  party” in the Isère, he played, in the 1910’s, a national role in the Libertarian.  “Great  elder” of anarchism in the same way as a Jean Grave, an Émile Pouget or a Sébastien Faure, he enjoyed a moral authority unanimously respected by the various libertarian tendencies. He was involved in the trial, known as the  “Trial of the 66”  in 1883, in Lyon^].^[2]