Claude Guillon: 1952-2023

January 20, 2023
by CIRA

Salut Claude!

On January 19, 2023, our friend Claude Guillon bowed out.

It was cancer that got the better of him at the age of 70 (he was born in Paris on September 17, 1952). He kept us informed of the progress of his disease on his blog. His regular health bulletins were reserved for "those who really care!"

We cannot reduce Claude to being only the co-author of Suicide mode d'emploi (1982), a book which caused a scandal but which also had many readers (more than 100,000 copies sold before its ban).

He was interested in the right to choose the time and the means of his death, of course. But he had many other centers of interest: psychoanalysis, the rights of minors, the freedom of the body, certain sexual practices (in particular sodomy), the Revolution of 1789 (seen from below), the recognition of pain (especially that of children), the failings of democracy, the struggles of undocumented migrants, opposition to all wars...

He expressed his ideas in a dozen books, in newspapers (notably Mordicus in the 1990s), in leaflets and two blogs, one generalist Ligne de force , the other devoted to the French Revolution, La Révolution et us .

He was an anarchist, defining himself as a libertarian communist. He had collected a large number of texts in a book published in 2015 How can one be an anarchist? He had come to present it to the CIRA on September 19, 2015. Having found accommodation in Marseille, he visited us several times thereafter. He supported our activities and disseminated our information.

We will remember him as a supportive and generous companion...

The CIRA of Marseilles

https://linesofforce.wordpress.com/

https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article154788&id_mot=28

https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/mort-de-lecrivain-claude-guillon

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