The World Federation of Trade Unions learns with pain the death of Raymonde Dien, which occurred on the morning of August 19, 2022 in Saint-Denis, at the age of 93. It was on February 23, 1950 that the worker militant Raymonde Dien opposed, at the call of the French Communist Party, a rail convoy of armored vehicles at the Saint-Pierre-Des-Corps station on its way to Indochina, where the French army was waging a relentless colonial war against the Viet Minh. Many anti-imperialist militants, including Raymonde, lied down on the tracks to prevent the departure of the train. The only woman to wear pants, Raymonde was identified, denounced, and arrested by the police the same evening. Her trial began in Bordeaux, on May 31, before a military court, where she was accused of “destroying the property of the army”, a crime punishable by capital punishment. A national and international campaign spearheaded by the PCF and the CGT began, seeking to free Raymonde Dien, who became the symbol of the struggles of the working class and the youth against the war in Indochina; a campaign in which the WFTU affiliates would take their full part (motions, letters, rallies, demonstrations). Raymonde would finally be sentenced to 1 year in prison and 15 years of forfeiture of her civil rights (prohibition to vote, to be part of a jury and to apply for a job as a civil servant). Released after 10 months, at Christmas 1950, Raymonde Dien, now world famous, would continue her fight for peace and against oppression. In particular, she would become, for 2 years, a member of the offices of the World Federation of Teachers Unions (FISE) of the WFTU, alongside the Frenchman Paul Delanoue, a leading member of the National Education Federation (FEN) in France, who was secretary general of the FISE. In 1953, a statue representing Raymonde Dien lying on a railway track was erected in Victory Park in Leningrad. In 2004, Raymonde was awarded the Vietnam Friendship Medal, and a street in Ho Chi Minh City bears her name. The WFTU honors its heroes and keeps alive the memory of internationalist fighters, like Raymonde Dien, so that the younger generations of the world’s working class continue their struggle. The World Federation of Trade Unions presents its condolences to the family and friends of Raymonde Dien, to the PCF and to the FISE of which she was a member.