Following the 1974
strikes in the
banks, the
PTT and the
railways, a
revolutionary syndicalist tendency was formed within the
Revolutionary Anarchist Organization (, ORA), called the
Union of Libertarian Communist Workers (,
UTCL). The UTCL trend reproached the ORA for its
leftist and anti-syndicalist drift which kept it away from workplace activism. In February 1978 the founding congress of the UTCL was held. 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. ==References==