Mouvement de la Paix
The Mouvement de la Paix is an organisation which promotes a
Origins
The origin of the Movement was to be found in the creation of "Combattants de la Liberté" in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was the communist leader, Charles Tillon who, at the end of 1947, launched an appeal for the creation of an organisation devoted to "supporting the republican régime and preventing the return of fascism and dictatorship".[1] On 22 February 1948, about 60 people who had been active in the resistance founded "les Combattants de la Liberté" in a meeting at the l'Hôtel des 2 Mondes in Paris. The leader was to be Yves Farge whoa had been appointed prefect of the Rhône-Alpes region by Charles de Gaulle at the liberation of France. The constitution of this young movement which aimed to preserve the resistance spirit of unity was laid down by Raymond Aubrac.
After the 1948 Congrès des peuples pour la paix de Wroclaw, the Mouvement mondial des partisans de la paix was formed, and encouraged the creation of national committees. In France, the "Combattants de la Liberté", which had become "les Combattants de la Liberté et de la Paix", then "les Combattants de la Paix et de la Liberté" finally in 1951 became "le conseil national français du Mouvement de la Paix", commonly known as the "Mouvement de la Paix".
The Cold War years
The period of the
The Movement subsequently
Other campaigns
The year 1956 marked the beginning of
The flame revived during the
Since 2000 the Movement has energised a large anti-war constituency (
The Movement today
The Movement is today the most important pacifist
The Movement seems to have experienced a rally since the 2003 Iraq war and the development of alter-globalization movements. It plays an important role in organizing European social fora, and has mobilized against the Iraq war, the situations in Chechnya and Israel, and against nuclear weapons with a campaign for a non-proliferation treaty. The movement is appealing for a reduction in the defense budget. For several years, in response to urban violence, the Movement has promoted the idea of committees for culture and peace in city wards.
Magazine
After over 50 years and 500 issues, the Movement's magazine, Combat pour la Paix (fight for peace) changed its name to Planète Paix (Planet Peace) in March 2005.
Notable members
- Yves Farge, president until his death in 1953
- CGTunion
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie and Eugénie Cotton, scientists; Pablo Picasso and Jean Effel, artists
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet, Hervé Bazin, Vercors, Maurice Druon, André Stil, Jean-Marie Domenach, Jean Cassou and Michel Leiris, writers
- Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Mondy, Claude Piéplu, Bernard Blier, actors; Francis Lemarque and Juliette Gréco, singers
- Lucie Aubrac, Jean Pierre-Bloch and Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, members of the resistance
- Abbé Jean Boulier, prètre rouge ("Red priest")
- Jacques Denis
- Pierre-Luc Séguillon
- Daniel Cirera; Jacques Le Dauphin
- Daniel Durand, national secretary 1994-2002
- Arielle Denis and Pierre Villard, co-presidents since 2002.
See also
References
- ^ in "Un procès de Moscou à Paris"
Bibliography
- (in French) Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison, Le Mouvement de la paix pendant la guerre froide : le cas français (1948–1952), in. Communisme magazine, no. 18-19, 1988, p. 120-138.
- (in French) Stéphane Courtois, Le Mouvement de la paix, in. Jean François Sirinelli (dir.), Dictionnaire de la vie politique française au XX siècle, PUF, Paris, 2005 (1st edition, 1995).
- (in French) Yves Santamaria, Le parti de l'ennemi? : Le Parti communiste français dans la lutte pour la paix (1947–1958), Armand Colin, Paris, 2006, 373 p.
External links
- (in French) Homepage of Mouvement de la Paix
- (in French) MDLP International peace day site
- (in French) MDLP NATO Afghanistan Appeal site
- (in French) MDLP Balkans related site
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