A-Infos (en) France, FA: Jean-Marc, the struggle continues (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Jean-Marc Raynaud wasn't always a troublemaker. He started out as a 
troublemaker in his youth. From high school onward, he and his friends 
from the Café de la Paix formed a discussion group focused on 
secularism; a theme that would stay with him throughout his life. His 
rationalist commitment as a freethinker is undeniable. With this group 
of friends, he also became involved in the anti-nuclear movement, 
fighting against the Braud-et-Saint-Louis power plant and a harmful 
highway construction project. Few people know this, but when he enrolled 
in law school in Bordeaux, his intention was to become... a police 
commissioner! Fortunately, a wind of emancipation was blowing through 
the spring of 1968, and Jean-Marc became friends with Sanchez and Jean 
Barrué.

The 1970s would be the decade in which his libertarian commitments were 
solidified. It was during this period that he joined the Anarchist 
Federation, held regular meetings in Rochefort, and campaigned for male 
contraception in general and vasectomy in particular. At the same time, 
he joined the cremationists' union and their journal, "La Flamme" (The 
Flame), promoting the practice of cremation. He wasn't ahead of his 
time; his time was behind him.

Once the ball was rolling, he would theorize and put into practice a 
life of continuous struggle, dedicated to creating concrete alternatives 
to the world he refused to submit to. Uncle Bakunin's summer camps, the 
self-managed daycare center, the Bonaventure libertarian school, and 
other such projects filled the time of this committed educator who, not 
content with simply taking action, also wrote numerous texts more than 
600 cataloged to date for various activist newspapers and magazines.

"I always wanted to be a publisher," Jean-Marc confided to his longtime 
friend Jean-Claude Richard. On the advice of the latter, and after 
managing the publishing house Le Monde Libertaire, he founded Éditions 
Libertaires, which published over 250 books and, for many years, awarded 
the prestigious Ni Dieu Ni Maître prize. This publishing house still 
exists and is a leading voice in French-language anarchist publishing. 
Many authors join us in expressing their sorrow.

Despite the great failure of his life namely, the achievement of unity 
within the libertarian movement Jean-Marc did not give up and tirelessly 
continued to defend a non-negotiable humanism. Thus, when the despicable 
Manuel Valls put the stripping of citizenship on the agenda during 
Hollande's presidency, he publicly asked to have it revoked himself. The 
local press still remembers this.

Jean-Marc was a card-carrying member. His world citizen card, which he 
never failed to flash in the faces of the police, always quick to 
suppress the freedom of peoples.

Today, a great man has left us, but his struggles and convictions will 
neither be forgotten nor abandoned.

We are all fierce Raynauds!

Anarchist Federation
Chaucre, Saint-Georges-d'Oléron
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

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