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Title: Obituary: Andre Senez Author: Anarchist Communist Federation Date: 1998 Language: en Topics: obituary, Organise! Source: Retrieved on May 14, 2013 from https://web.archive.org/web/20130514040605/http://www.afed.org.uk/org/issue49/senez.html Notes: Published in Organise! Issue 49 — Summer-Autumn 1998.
Over the years, the name Andre Senez could be read at the foot of the
back page of many French anarchist and libertarian papers as “Director”
of the publication- a paper cannot by law be published in France unless
it has this State requirement and risks instant confiscation. Many
veterans of the French libertarian movement have warm memories of Andre
Senez, with his unflinching convictions and his solidarity. He died on
the evening of 20^(th) February after reaching his 80^(th) birthday last
October. Old worker in the shoe industry in Paris, an expert in his
work, he had retired to the Touraine region to be close to his family.
At the age of 15, he joined the youth section of the Communist Party,
which he left very quickly after the signing of the pact between Stalin
and Laval, the right wing French premier, in 1935. He became an
anarchist and was a militant in the Jeunesse Anarchiste Communiste
(Anarchist Communist Youth) then in the Union Anarchiste, its parent
organisation and then in the post-war Federation Anarchiste.
Georges Fontenis writes: “I made his acquaintance at the start of the
war and we were at all the rallies together, at all the demonstrations
where he impressively handled his walking stick which he could not be
separated from because of his handicapped status (as a child he had
suffered an attack of poliomyelitis that was not taken care of properly,
the lot of many children from a poor background in that period)”.
Leaving the Federation Anarchiste in the 50s, he attended meetings of
Socialisme ou Barbarie along with Fontenis (On Socialisme ou Barbarie
see the obituary of Cornelius Castoriadis in Organise! 48)
With Fontenis and Daniel Guerin, he was one of the founders of the
Mouvement Communiste Libertaire (MCL). He remained in this group when it
transformed itself into the (first) Organisation Communiste Libertaire.
With its collapse in 1976, Senez joined the (second) Organisation
Communiste Libertaire, the result of a changing of name by the
Organisation Revolutionnaire Anarchiste ! He was subsequently active in
the Union des Travailleurs Communistes Libertaires and its successor
Alternative Libertaire. With the deterioration of his health, he became
housebound, nevertheless continuing correspondence with various
publications.” We are all sad at having lost an old brother”-Georges
Fontenis.