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[email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications ‘March Separately but Strike Together’ ‘March Separately but Strike Together’ The use of the united front tactic by Trotskyists in French trade unions by Christopher David Blakey A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in French Studies University of Warwick, Department of French Studies June 2011 Contents Page Illustrations and Tables vi Acknowledgements vii Declaration ix Abstract x Abbreviations xi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: The united front tactic: an overview 34 The emergence of the united front tactic 36 The united front tactic is formalised 41 The united front and the ‘French question’ 49 The Left Opposition 58 The Popular Front 65 The united front: towards a working definition 71 Chapter 3: The 1936 Hotchkiss strike: the united front tested in practice 76 The early development of the Hotchkiss Strike Committee 80 Trotskyist unity and the Parti ouvrier internationaliste 84 Strikes in Levallois and the further development of the Hotchkiss