Mohamed Saïl

Mohamed Saïl (full name Mohand Amezian ben Ameziane Saïl; born October 14, 1894) was an Algerian-French anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary. As a child, Mohamed was one of the few who were able to attend primary school for a short period, but he managed to become self-taught. He spent the first half of the 1920s as an anti-militarist activist (he rebelled and refused to enlist in the French army during the First World War 1914–1918). He worked in his life as a driver mechanic and then a pottery repairer. He was also a writer and volunteer in the International Group of the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War. He died on April 27 1953 in Bobigny (Seine).

The French writer Jacques Prévert dedicated a poem to him. Provided by Wikipedia