Augustin Frédéric Adolphe Hamon (3 December 1862 – 20 January 1945) was a French socialist-anarchist and later communist editor, translator, and writer on philosophy and social psychology.

[3] From 1904 onwards he and his wife Henriette (née Rynenbroeck) translated Shaw's work into French.

[4] Hamon was a proponent of using antisemitism to appeal to a mass audience, arguing in an 1898 interview that "With the petty bourgeois especially, anti-Judaism is the road to Socialism.

[5] During the First World War, not being mobilized, he went into exile with his family in Great Britain and, as a lecturer, gave 13 courses at the University of London.

The electoral victory of the Popular Front was an opportunity for a resurgence his notoriety, thanks to his stature as an anti-fascist and pacifist political writer.