Comités de défense paysanne
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The Comités de Défense Paysanne or Peasant Defense Committees were agrarian militias founded by Henry Dorgères in France founded in 1929.[1] It had an "action squad" called the Greenshirts[2] which was how his general movement was often known.
The Peasant Defense Committees were seen as differing from the more established and conservative Syndicats agricoles through a willingness to embrace direct action, a more egalitarian organisational structure that did not rely on aristocratic rural social hierarchies and the use of more militaristic attributes such as oaths and uniforms.[3]
In 1934 it would join up with the larger and more conservative Union nationale des syndicats agricoles and the French Agrarian and Peasant Party to form the Front paysan.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Ory 1975, p. 169.
- ^ Paxton 1997, pp. 3–4.
- ^ Paxton 1997, p. 127.
- ^ Ory 1975, pp. 175–176.
Sources
[edit]- Ory, Pascal (1975), Le dorgérisme, institution et discours d'une colère paysanne (1929-1939), retrieved 2024-11-13
- Paxton, Robert O. (1997-09-26), French Peasant Fascism : Henry Dorgeres' Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN 978-0-19-535474-4, retrieved 2024-11-13
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