Following the 1974 strikes in the banks, the PTT and the railways, a revolutionary syndicalist tendency was formed within the Revolutionary Anarchist Organization (French: Organisation révolutionnaire anarchiste, ORA), called the Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (French: Union des travailleurs communistes libertaires, UTCL).
[2] In 1986, during the protests against Alain Devaquet, the Young Libertarian Collective (French: Collectif jeunes libertaires, CJL) was born, which soon joined the UTCL.
[1][3] In 1986, the UTCL railway workers, including Henri Célié and Christian Mahieux, played an important role in triggering the winter strikes at the SNCF, which for the first time saw the appearance of coordinating strikers.
[3] In 1988, one found them in the strikes of the Post office which led to the exclusion of several combative CFDT unions, and to the birth of SUD-PTT.
The UTCL was for 15 years one of the far-left organizations most at the forefront in the emergence of alternative trade unionism which was to result, after the refocusing of the CFDT, in the creation of new radical unions (SLT in Usinor- Dunkirk, SNPIT at Air Inter, CRC in health, SUD at PTT, etc.).