Thierry Porré has left us

Born on October 17, 1947, Thierry, an activist in the FA (Anarchist Federation), the ASRAS (Revolutionary Syndicalist and Anarcho-Syndicalist Alliance), and the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) for the Book Trade, dealt us a cruel blow by leaving us on June 30, 2026, at the age of 78.
Some of us had known him in the early 1970s in the LouiseMichel Groupe Louise Michel, of which he was a member. It must be said that this period, the immediate aftermath of May '68, attracted a whole generation of young people to the Anarchist Federation.

Thierry was one of them: an anarchist (more precisely, anarcho-syndicalist), an anti-militarist and conscientious objector (working for the National Forestry Office in Barcelonnette), an anti-Francoist and member of the Free Spain Committee…

After briefly leaving the Anarchist Federation to join the Revolutionary Syndicalist and Anarcho-Syndicalist Alliance, he returned to the FA after the dissolution of ASRAS, first in the Pierre Besnard group and then in the Salvador Seguí group. After his retirement, he left Paris to settle in Bordeaux with his partner Fabienne, but expressed his desire to remain a member of the Salvador Seguí group.
A proofreader by profession, he held various positions within the CGT Proofreaders' Union.

Similarly, in the FA (Fédération Anarchiste), he was appointed on several occasions to the editorial board of Le Monde Libertaire , a newspaper in which he wrote numerous articles, both under his own name and under various pseudonyms: Jean-Pierre Germain, Sitting Bull, Alexis Pierre, Loulou Barbesois…

When he lived in Paris, a passionate blues music lover, he hosted the program "Blues en liberté" (Blues in Freedom) every Wednesday on Radio Libertaire. He continued in Bordeaux on the radio station "La Clé des ondes" (The Key to the Waves), offering another program about his passion: "Bordeaux Blues," as well as a press review for "Les Vieux Fourneaux" (The Old Geezers) and a libertarian almanac, accompanied by his partner Fabienne.

A whole life dedicated to anarchist and union activism, to the blues…

Today, we are the ones who have the blues.
With Thierry, a whole chapter of our youth has come to an end.
We are thinking of him, as well as his partner Fabienne and their children.

Groupe Salvador Seguí

Entry in the Maitron Dictionary:
Born on October 17, 1947 in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne); activist in the Syndicalist Alliance, the Anarchist Federation and the CGT, proofreader.

Thierry Porré lived in Lyon from 1975 to 1978, and has since resided in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. His mother, Françoise Marie Jeanne Harraca, a secretary by profession, was born on September 2, 1927, in Antibes. Initially a moderate right-winger, she later moved towards the center-left. His father, André Gilbert Léopold Porré, born in February 1921, was a career soldier. His partner, Fabienne Marrot, was born in Bordeaux on December 31, 1954. She was an activist with the Alliance Syndicale and the CFDT (French Democratic Confederation of Labour).

After his baccalaureate and a general university diploma (DEUG) in German, he was first a warehouse worker and then a construction worker before becoming a proofreader in 1973 and until his retirement.

An antimilitarist, he was a conscientious objector from December 1973 to December 1975. First at the National Forestry Office in Barcelonnette, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, then at the Federation of Secular Works (Paris).

Julien Toublet, Georges Yvernel, Aimé Capelle of the CGT-SR then of the CNT-F were decisive in his commitment and his militant career which began in the Anarchist Federation (1972-1975) which he left in disagreement with the notion of "position of mind" to the detriment of that of class struggle, to join the Syndicalist Alliance (1975-1981).

Upon the dissolution of the Alliance, he joined the Anarchist Federation in 1981 where he participated in the creation of the Pierre-Besnard group. At the FA, he was a member of the editorial board of Le Monde libertaire for several years, first in 1973 for the monthly, then regularly for the weekly since 1982.

As a member of the CGT Proofreaders' Union, which he joined in 1973, he was labour secretary, elected to the union committee on statutory intervals until 2001 and deputy secretary between 1998 and 1999, with Jacky Toublet as secretary at the time. He was also a staff representative at Sirlo ( Le Figaro ) until 2000 and, from 2001 to 2004, at Presse Alliance ( France-Soir ).

In both of the aforementioned companies, he also served as secretary of the GIA (Inter-Workshop Group, which coordinated all the trades within the book industry). A bookbinder himself, he participated in numerous labor disputes, notably the Parisien Libéré strike , which lasted nearly two years (1975-1977). He is also the founding host of Blues en Liberté on Radio Libertaire since 1981, a program that grew out of Jazz en Liberté, itself launched at the initiative of Gérard Terronés.