Albert Bourderon

Albert Henri Bourderon (26 November 1858 – 2 April 1930) was a French cooper (barrel maker) and syndicalist who became a leading socialist.

[1] In 1905 he was a participant in the conference where the socialist party (Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière, SFIO) was born.

[5] On 15 August 1915 a pacifist resolution was presented at the CGT's national congress at the initiative of Bourderon and Alphonse Merrheim, signed by several militants of the federation of teachers' unions including Louis Bouët, Fernand Loriot, Louis Lafosse, Marie Guillot, Marie Mayoux, Marthe Bigot and Hélène Brion.

[8] The International Action Committee (Comité d'action internationale, CAI) was founded in December 1915 by French syndicalists who supported the pacifist declarations of the Zimmerwald Conference.

Merrheim, Bourderon and Marie Mayoux of the teacher's federation were expected to represent France, but they were refused the passports they needed to travel.

[12] In February 1917 the CRRI split, with Pierre Brizon, Raffin-Dugens and Bourderon joining the SFIO minority led by Jean Longuet, while the socialists Fernand Loriot, Charles Rappoport, Louise Saumoneau and François Mayoux took control of the committee.