Lucien Tronchet

Lucien Tronchet (1902–1982) was a Swiss anarcho-syndicalist activist. An emblematic figure of trade unionism in Geneva, he took action alongside Italian anti-fascist refugees and Spanish libertarians during the Spanish Civil War. A convinced antimilitarist, he spent two times, in 1920 and 1940, in prison for "refusing to serve" in the Swiss Army.

Revolutionary syndicalist In 1922, a conscientious objector, he was sentenced to 20 days in detention. It was at this time that he became friends with Luigi Bertoni, one of the major figures of the libertarian movement in Switzerland, who published Le Réveil anarchiste, in Geneva, from 1900 to 1946.

The same year, he founded, with five members of the group of the newspaper Le Réveil anarchiste, the "Autonomous Syndicate of Masons and Maneuvers" while remaining a member of the autonomous union.

Publications With Luigi Bertoni, Face à la guerre... devant le tribunal militaire de la Première Division, à Lausanne, le 16 mars 1940, Éditions Germinal, Geneva, 1940. Un homme dans la Mêlée sociale. Louis Bertoni, pour son 70e anniversaire, Geneva 1942. 1922–1942, 20e anniversaire de l’union FOBB, les batailles syndicalistes des bâtisseurs à Genève, Geneva 1943. Cent ans de lutte des gars du bâtiment à Genève suivi de La semaine de cinq jours, Geneva 1948. Les actions héroïques des gars du bâtiment, FOBB, Geneva 1954. Clovis Pignat, une vocation syndicale internationale, Lausanne, Éditions du Grand-Pont, 1971. Combats pour la dignité ouvrière, Geneva, Grounauer, 1979.