The events described in this text took place over a ten-year period between 1970 and 1980 and this text was written 25 years later. It goes without saying that this document cannot be a ’scientific’ study of the history of the "Alliance Syndicaliste" and that it contains a certain amount of subjectivity, and that I cannot have avoided printing in it the way I experienced this period, which was intense and marked by hearty comradeship.