Hamba Kahle Gerard Ali Khanifar
1950-1997
This French comrade of African Arab origin died 21 February 1997.
Born 10 August 1950, Gerard Ali Khanifar started work in the
factories of Michelin as an unskilled worker.
He became an libertarian socialist (anarchist) during the
revolutionary upheavals in France in May 1968, when he was active in
the worker-student alliance. He served several prison terms for his
active solidarity with the Spanish and Portuguese anarchists
struggling against the fascist dictatorships of Franco and Salazar.
His uncompromising militancy put him on boss' blacklists.
He earned a diploma in 1993 for his work on Mikhail Bakunin (the
"father" of anarcho- syndicalism) and then earned a doctorate for his
work on anarchist history. He also prepared a work popularising
Bakunin's ideas.
He was a worker militant, participating in both local and
international struggles: the great British miners' strike of 1984-5,
and work with French truck drivers and the unemployed. He founded the
Spartacus group of the Francophone Anarchist Federation. For his
friends and comrades he was warm, and, above all, always in
solidarity.
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