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Place of Birth: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France, France
About Pierre Morain
- Pierre Morain (12 April 1930 - 27 May 2013) was a building worker, a trades unionist, a militant libertarian communist and an anti-colonialist activist.
- For most purposes he would be considered a Frenchman.
- However, when he faced trial in connection with a newspaper article he had written opposing the government position in respect of the Algerian War, the president of the court noticed that his nineteen co-defendants were all Algerian and felt it necessary to clarify Morain's nationality: "But you ..
- are nevertheless French".
- Morain's defiant clarification is often requoted when Pierre Morain is discussed: "No, I'm not French.
- I'm a worker".
- When he was arrested on 29 May 1955 (or 29 June 1955: sources differ) Morain became the first French anti-colonialist activist to be sent to prison for supporting Algerian independence.
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