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Joseph Tommasi was born in 1886.
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He died in exile in Moscow at the age of about forty. He worked as a bicycle courier, a carpenter and then a mechanic. He joined the Socialist Party of France in 1904.
Tommasi became a union activist, and during World War I (1914-1918) supported the left wing of the Confédération générale du travail. Tommasi became secretary of the Carolina and Aviation Workers Federation, and secretary of the GGT in 1919.
At the Confédération générale du travail"s first postwar congress, held in Lyon from 15-21 September 1919, Tommasi was among the leaders of the minority, with Pierre Monatte, Raymond Péricat and Gaston Monmousseau. The minority wanted the Confédération générale du travail to join the International.
When the French Party (Parti Communiste Français (French Communist Party): Parti e Français) was formed in December 1920 Tommasi was 34 years old and was working in the aviation industry. He was a delegate to the Third Congress of the International in Moscow in June–July 1921, where he supported the Left current.
At the request of Stepanov, Tommasi organized an intelligence network in France.
Tommasi attended the congress in Saint-Étienne on 25 June – 1 July 1922 at which the syndicates, unions and federations that had been excluded from the Confédération générale du travail founded the Confédération générale du travail unitaire (CGTU). The dynamic new organization was attached to peace and to the anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist struggle. The French police forced Tommasi into exile in 1924.
He moved to Moscow, where he joined the Left Opposition led by Leon Trotsky.
Joseph Tommasi died in 1926.
Politics
This group denounced the Confédération générale du travail membership in the Amsterdam International of Labor Unions, said the Confédération générale du travail majority had broken with the principles of syndicalism and lost faith in revolution by dealing with the government. He was also a member of the political bureau of the party, and for a while was acting secretary-general.
Membership
In 1919 he was a member of the Confédération générale du travail administrative committee. From 1921 to 1922 he was a member of the Party executive committee.
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Political Party
French Communist Party