Georges Adda

Georges Adda (; September 22, 1916 in Tunis – September 28, 2008 in Tunis) was a Tunisian politician and trade unionist, and a former leader of the Tunisian Communist Party.

Biography Adda was a respected figure of the Tunisian left opposition. He described himself as an Anti-Zionist Tunisian Jew. He was also active in the fight for workers' rights in the Tunisian General Labour Union. Adda was arrested again in 1952 by the French colonial authorities, and with other Destour and Communist leaders was sent to internal exile in Southern Tunisia. He was not freed until 1955. He later wrote about this period:For the liberation of my country, I experienced prisons, concentration camps and deportations by the French colonialists.

Adda was a member of the PCT executive until 1957. For many years he remained an important leading member of the party and the managing editor of its French-speaking weekly, ("Tunisia's Future"). After independence, he continued to play a role as an activist, but without an official post inside the party. His presence was still felt through his opinions, press articles and participation in democratic and trade-unionist movements.

His son, Serge Adda, the former president of TV5Monde, predeceased him in 2004 of cancer.

Adda died of a heart attack, and was buried at the Borgel Jewish Cemetery where his wife Gladys and his son were already interred.