Robert Louzon
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Robert Louzon was a French engineer, revolutionary syndicalist, anarchist and socialist.

Louzon was involved in the Confédération générale du travail
Confédération générale du travail
The General Confederation of Labour is a national trade union center, the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions.It is the largest in terms of votes , and second largest in terms of membership numbers.Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995-96 The General...

and then in the anarchist Confédération nationale du travail
Confédération nationale du travail
- History :The CNT-F or National Confederation of Labour is a French anarcho-syndicalist union.It was founded in 1946 by Spanish anarcho-syndicalists in exile, and former members of Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire , its name is derived from the Spanish CNT, the...

(CNT). He helped found the journal Révolution prolétarienne with the trade-unionist Pierre Monatte
Pierre Monatte
Pierre Monatte was a French trade unionist who worked in the printing industry . He was the responsible of the Confédération générale du travail at the beginning of the 20th century, and founded its journal La Vie ouvrière on 5 October 1909...

, joined the SIA (Solidarité Internationale antifasciste) and signed Louis Lecoin
Louis Lecoin
Louis Lecoin, Louis Lecoin, Louis Lecoin, (b. 30 September 1888, Saint-Amand-Montrond in the Cher département, d. 1971, was a militant anarcho-pacifist. He was at the center of the foundation of the Union pacifiste de France.- Biography :...

's Paix immédiate. During World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 he was arrested and interned in Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

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