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Tract – (8 June 1968 – Action Committees, Movement 22 March)

08 Friday Jun 2018

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RENAULT-FLINS; VICTORIOUS RESUMPTION OF THE STRIKE

– Capital believed it was attacking the weak link of the metal-working industry (an isolated factory, no union tradition, a number of immigrant workers, a fascist organisation in the factories).

– It sent 5,000 CRS, mobile guards, a half-track, etc…, to protect the scabs’ “freedom to work.”

– But the workers of Flins continue the combat. Friday, at 5:00am, they amassed with a number of students in front of the thousands of cops protecting the factory.

Workers and students overtake the CRS along the route where the cars arrive, carrying the workers who were tricked into thinking they were resuming work. They get into each car to explain the situation, and quickly all of the cars are empty and the 9,000 workers are united in a meeting to continue the strike.

– It is then (10 in the morning) that the mobile guards attack the gatherings of workers in Elizabethville. Not only do the workers have no access to their factory, but the neighboring villages are also prohibited.

– All day the workers, at first surprised and unarmed, respond and hold on before the mobile guards.

Power is forced to add 50 cars of CRS during Friday night.

This morning L’Humanité says it is the student provocateurs that are at the origin of the violence. This is a lie. It was the workers of Flins (there were 8,000 of them) who sent for the students. It was the CRS, by their scandalous presence in the factory and the surrounding area, who provoked the workers of Flins. The students who wish to retake the Sorbonne understand the workers of Flins who wish to retake their factory: that’s why they were yesterday and are still at the side of the workers in the face of the repression of the bosses and the police.

The reality: is the anger of the workers.

The reality: is the fraternization of the workers and the students.

Today the strike movement turns its eyes to RENAULT-FLlNS. Entire sectors take up the struggle again; the postal sorting offices, Berliet, etc… go back on strike, seeing in the fighting spirit of the workers of Flins the sign of an ongoing struggle for the abolition of the bosses.

The workers of Flins have opened a new stage of the struggle.

LET’S MOBILIZE; all of the businesses, all of the workers, all of the students.

LET’S REINFORCE THE STRIKE MOVEMENT.

SUNDAY AND MONDAY will be two decisive days for the workers’ struggle.

Coordination of the Action Committees of the Parisian Region
Movement of Support for the Struggles of the people
Movement of March 22

Tract – “Everyone to the Faculties” (14 May 1968 – High School Action Committee)

14 Monday May 2018

Posted by biffbang in Comites d'Action, May 13-19 1968, Students, Tract

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EVERYONE TO THE FACULTIES

Action won’t cease after a demonstration, even if it brings together more than a million people. We are all agreed that the crumbs thrown by the Gaullist regime can’t resolve the crisis in the University.

After the use of deadly gas, incendiary bombs and attack grenades by the CRS (estimated to have injured a thousand) it’s necessary to add to the three demands of the UNEF:

– THE DEMAND FOR THE RESIGNATIONS OF GRIMAUD AND FOUCHET, already common to the UNEF, SNESup and MVT 22 March.

Until this condition is met, the CAL calls for the continuation of the multifaceted strike (in particular the formation of Study Groups to examine the demands of high-school students)

– THE RIGHT TO STRIKE ARISING FROM THE RIGHT OF UNION AND POLITICAL ACTION

Starting last night the students have reached a new stage in their struggle by occupying the Faculties and setting up Action Committees that gather together: high-school and university students with workers.

The CAL commits us to go en masse to the Faculties to discuss demands together with the blue-collar and white-collar workers.

COME IN GREAT NUMBERS!

Tract – “Workers Students” (20 May 1968 – Comité d’Action Etudiants Ouvriers)

22 Monday Aug 2016

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Students Workers

 During the protests that have shaken the sterile “Gaullist order” the people have become aware of the immense force they represent, while at the same time assessing the real weakness of the state.

 10 years of the Gaullist regime have proven to the total ineffectiveness of traditional forms of struggle.

 The bosses and the government are stunned. Panic-sticken Capitalism entreats the “representative leadership” of the working class to take things in hand.

 It knows that in times of profound social crisis the reformist leadership are the best and ultimate bulwark of the regime.

 In the trap of their negotiations, these leaders divert workers from total victory in favor of interim financial benefits quickly offset by the increased cost of living.

 The workers and students do not want their fight to end up like the movements of 1936 and 1945.

        It must go all the way. WE HAVE OCCUPIED THE FACULTIES, THE ADMINISTRATIONS , THE FACTORIES …

we will stay there

 Let us make them function by us and for us, showing that workers’ management has the ability make things better for all, rather than the benefit of the few that the capitalists scandalously used them for.

 Do not let the bourgeois politicians or the social democrats negotiate a return to order with a sitting cabinet.

 We insist on the departure of De Gaulle and the creation of a workers’ government. The state which we want must institute direct democracy within a socialist framework, established through the directions of grass-roots committees.

 These committees will have the duty to ensure its effective implementation.

 WE WON’T FALL INTO THE TRAP OF FUTILE DISCUSSIONS

power is to be taken

Students Workers Action Committee

Tract – “We Support the Strikers and we also Commit Ourselves to the Struggle” (around 19 May 1968 – Comité d’Action Censier)

22 Monday Aug 2016

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WE SUPPORT THE STRIKERS
AND WE ALSO COMMIT OURSELVES TO THE STRUGGLE

  —————————————

The strikers are a family:

1) ORGANISE FUND-RAISING
2) NEGOTIATION STRIKE
3) RENT STRIKE
4) TAX STRIKE
5) OCCUPY VACANT APARTMENTS
6) SEIZE THE STOCK FROM THE SUPERMARKETS
7) ORGANISE OURSELVES INTO AN ACTION COMMITTEE FOR THE QUARTER

THE MASSIVE MOVEMENT ALREADY UNDERWAY OUTFLANKS ALL THE
POSSIBLE REPRESSIONS OF THE STATE

ACTION COMMITTEE CENSIER
15 RUE DE SANTEUIL
Office room 325

Tract – “Paris, 12 May (AFP)” (12 May 1968 – Comités d’Action du 3 Mai)

21 Sunday Aug 2016

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PARIS, May 12 (AFP)

 During a press conference held yesterday evening (Sunday) in an amphitheater of the Faculty of Sciences, Dr. KAHN, professor of medicine, protested against the use of a particularly toxic gas during the demonstrations in the Latin Quarter.

 The professor revealed that his observations of many students, together with a personal investigation, had enabled him to identify it absolutely as chlorobenzalmalomonitride, more commonly called C.S. or C.B.

 This gas, according to Dr. KAHN, which is used by the police in the United States as well as by American troops in Vietnam, is said to attack the human hepatic and renal centres and, in the laboratory, to have been proved fatal to animals that have been given concentrated doses.

 But what is serious, added Professor KAHN, is that they have been able to use such a gas during forty-eight hours in Paris without warning the medical authorities, whereas no known antidotes exist in France at this time against this compound. 

       AFP, 10:41 P.M.

IT ISN’T POSSIBLE TO TALK
WITH AN ASSASSIN AND A LIAR!

WE ARE CONTINUING STREET ACTION
AND OCCUPATION OF THE FACULTIES,
UNTIL 
GRIMAUD 
    AND 
FOUCHET
RESIGN

Monday, 2:00 AM

The May 3 Action Committees

Tract – “Combat Gas!” (13 May 1968 – Comités d’Action du 3 Mai)

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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Mbat

(Translation – Schnapp 52)

COMBAT GAS!

MATERIAL USED BY THE C.R.S. FOR REPRESSION OF DEMONSTRATORS

 – Offensive hand grenades (a powerful blast).
 – Incendiary grenades (which burn skin and eyes)
 – Combat gas C.N. and C.B. (based on chlorine and bromide compounds already currently used by Americans in Vietnam; they cause asphyxia and death).
 – Disabling gas.

 These devices have been used this week in the Latin Quarter for attacks in cafés, in the subway, buses, stores, and apartment houses.

NOW IT IS CLEAR!

 We are the guinea pigs for the experiments of a sadistic police who already has Charonne and the tortures in Algeria to its credit.

 Thousands of youth who came to demonstrate have been harried, tracked down, bestially beaten.

 We know that already there have been:
 – injured who were blackjacked on stretchers
 – members of the Red Cross (Hôpital Curie) systematically harried wherever they went
 – doctors beaten (rue Gay-Lussac)
 – people weak from loss of blood in police stations (Panthéon)
 – injured to whom the police refused medical care for more than twenty-four hours
 – torn limbs requiring amputation
 – people in a coma
 – serious eye lesions
 – a student whose throat was slit by a cop on a windowpane (24 rue Gay-Lussac)
 – probable dead

 All these facts have been carefully suppressed by the government and the press. They have tried to impose silence in the name of medical secrecy by fabricating false medical reports.

 The strike of medical students, the protests of professors, the UNEF press conference on the means of repression used by the police, that of the doctors from Saint-Antoine Hospital, the spontaneous testimony of 50 doctors who had offered medical aid, prove that the medical profession will not allow itself to be muzzled by police repression.                                           

—–

PARIS, May 12 (AFP)

 During a press conference held yesterday evening (Sunday) in an amphitheater of the Faculty of Sciences, Dr. KAHN, professor of medicine, protested against the use of a particularly toxic gas during the demonstrations in the Latin Quarter.

 The professor revealed that his observations of many students, together with a personal investigation, had enabled him to identify it absolutely as chlorobenzalmalomonitride, more commonly called C.S. or C.B.

 This gas, according to Dr. KAHN, which is used by the police in the United States as well as by American troops in Vietnam, is said to attack the human hepatic and renal centres and, in the laboratory, to have been proved fatal to animals that have been given concentrated doses.

 But what is serious, added Professor KAHN, is that they have been able to use such a gas during forty-eight hours in Paris without warning the medical authorities, whereas no known antidotes exist in France at this time against this compound. 

       AFP, 10:41 P.M.

It is not possible to discuss with
assassins and liars
WE ARE CONTINUING STREET ACTION AND OCCUPATION OF THE FACULTIES, UNTIL 
GRIMAUD 
    AND 
FOUCHÉ
RESIGN!

Monday, 2:00 AM
The May 3 Action Committees

Poster – “Elections” (? June 1968 – Coordination des Comités d’Action)

15 Wednesday Jun 2016

Posted by biffbang in Comites d'Action, Coordination des Comités d'Action, Elections, Poster, Uncategorized

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ELECTIONS

Deception? Trickery? Mockery? Division? Betrayal? Takeover? 

LEGITIMATE?   NO!
Rigged: Electoral lists are not updated! Doctored  electoral districts! Youth under 21 can’t vote, 2,500,000 (foreign) workers can’t vote! 

DEMOCRATIC?    NO! 
Fascist: Progressive organizations have been dissolved! The Government has freed the OAS terrorists! The State spreads repression in the factories and in the streets through its police and CDR commandos! 

FREE?   NO! 
Poisoned: The ORTF is besieged by the army! (Radio) Europe and Luxembourg are owned by the bourgeoisie! The mass media are on capital’s payroll! 

THESE ELECTIONS ARE A MANEUVRE TO DIVERT AND SABOTAGE THE REAL DEMOCRACY THAT WAS BORN IN MAY. 

– IN MAY THE PEOPLE CHOSE: …  WORKERS POWER! 

– IN JUNE THE PANICKING POLITICIANS MADE THEMSELVES THE ACCOMPLICES OF CAPITALIST POWER BY SUPPORTING THEIR ELECTIONS 

Co-ordination of Action Committees

(June 1968 – Coordination des Comités d’Action)

46 x 61.5 cm

Documented in:
Beauty #214; Gasquet p. 52

Online Resources:
BNF 
Zurich – 64-0668

Poster – “Renault-Flins: It Continues” (Comités D’Action/Mouvement de Soutien aux Luttes du Peuple/Mouvement du 22 Mars)

08 Wednesday Jun 2016

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RENAULT-FLINS : IT CONTINUES

ON THURSDAY 5000 CRS IN HALF-TRACKS OCCUPIED THE FLINS FACTORY, BY SATURDAY THERE WERE 10,000!…
DE GAULLE ADMITS: 
– the employers have the means to quickly recover the increase in salaries
– the bourgeoisie know that any continuation of the struggle poses the issue of workers’ power.

So those in power profit from the dividing the struggles in order to attempt to crush the whole working class: FLINS was attacked first because it was a isolated factory.

However the workers fought, still fight and have defeated the manoeuvre of the bourgeoisie.

For 15 days the struggle proved that unity is our real strength in the abolition of the ruling class.

THE ISOLATION OF FLINS IS BROKEN
THE STRIKE IS REINFORCED!

To help your comrades to liberate their factory:

LET’S SET UP NEW FRONTS IN THE STRUGGLE WHEREVER WE ARE, IN THE COMPANIES, IN THE DISTRICTS, IN ORDER TO BREAK UP THE STATE,S FORCES: THE CRS CAN’T BE EVERYWHERE!

GATHER TOGETHER AND TOMORROW…

The Action Committees of the Paris region
The Movement to Support the Peoples’ Struggle
Movement of 22 March

(June 68 – Comités d’Action/Mouvement de Soutien aux Luttes du Peuple/Mouvement Du 22 Mars)

Blue offset on semi-gloss paper

46 x 61.5 cm


Documented in:
Chartres #72 ; Artcurial #388 ; Camard #74b ; Les Affiches #58

Online Resources:
BNF

Tract – “Renault leads the way” (early June 1968 – Action Committees)

06 Monday Jun 2016

Posted by biffbang in Comites d'Action, Coordination des Comités d'Action, June 3-9 1968, Renault, Uncategorized, Workers

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RENAULT LEADS THE WAY

The state decided to make an example out of the workers of Renault, who have been at the forefront of these three weeks of fighting. To do this, it chose the moment when other sectors were returning to work. It chose the Renault corporation’s most isolated factory. THIS PUNITIVE ACT AIMED TO SET AN EXAMPLE. By doing this the state wanted to show that the established order can’t be scorned.

BUT, BY THEIR RESISTANCE, THE WORKERS OF RENAULT FLINS HAVE DEFEATED THE STATE’S CRS

Strengthened by the support of the local people, they revealed the willpower and the determination of the working class in its resolute opposition to employers’ power.

REFUSING TO INCORPORATE THEMSELVES INTO THE EMPLOYERS’ STATE, REFUSING ALL FORMES OF ILLUSORY PARTICIPATION, THEY FIGHT FOR ALL WORKERS. Effectively the benefits snatched by the workers from the bosses will, by De Gaulle’s own admission, be eaten away by inflation owing to rising prices. ONLY CONTROL THROUGH WORKERS’ POWER CAN PRESERVE THESE BENEFITS AGAINST EVERY RECLAMATION OF THE EMPLOYERS.

The struggle of the workers at Flins demonstrates that the phase of social tranquility isrelative and that, tomorrow, the movement can begin again with vigour, strengthened by the experience it has acquired.

LET’S SUPPORT THE BATTLE OF EVERY WORKER ON STRIKE.
LET’S JOIN IN WITH THE STRUGGLE OF THE WORKERS AT FLINS.

 THE ACTION COMMITTEES

Poster – “The Bourgeoisie is Afraid!” (3 June 1968 – Action Committees/March 22)

03 Friday Jun 2016

Posted by biffbang in Comites d'Action, Coordination des Comités d'Action, June 3-9 1968, Mouvement du 22 Mars, Poster, Uncategorized

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THE BOURGEOISIE IS AFRAID!

THE DESPERATE STATE PROVOKES 
It gathers all of its cops, its spies, its foremen, and the fascist remnants: the CRS and Gaullist commandos have thrown tear-gas grenades at the picket lines, and many PTT and ORTF facilities have been attacked (both in Paris the provinces).

THE STATE LIES
The entire press throws out false rumours of a return to work, remaining totally silent about the workers resistance. 
At the Gare de Lyon, of over 5,000 workers and employees, only 60 scab managers have “returned to work”; the press fantasizes about an imminent return to work at the RATP when all depots have voted with 95% supporting the continuation of the strike.

THE STATE CHEATS
It grants some provisional appeasements to workers and tries to divert their struggle onto parliamentary terrain, where it is always able to cheat the people.

MORE THAN EVER THE WORKERS ORGANISE THEIR RESPONSE 
They  search out striking workers to reinforce the mass occupation of the factories. They unite the whole working population around themselves: owners of small shops, employees, and intellectuals. They fight for the total satisfaction of all demands, for all workers.

THEY ORGANISE THEIR SELF-DEFENSE BY EVERY MEANS 
Already at Rennes the postal workers have been fighting against the CRS for an hour and a half. 
Already the strikers break down the age-old divisions between town and country, and between the industries themselves. Already the strikers of the CSF at Brest have put their production at the service of the workers, at the service of struggles against the employers. 

Today the decisive battle is carried out in the occupied factories. 

LET’S REMAIN UNITED AND RESOLUTE IN SUPPORT OF THE OCCUPIED FACTORIES. 
LET’S ORGANISE THE UNITY OF THE POPULAR FORCES IN PRINCIPLE AND IN ACTlON.
FOR THE SELF-DEFENSE OF THE MASSES. 
FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE BOURGEOIS STATE. 

The workers take up the heroic example of the Paris Commune. They will carry out the struggle until the system of employers and wage-earners is abolished. 

ALL POWER TO THE WORKERS.

3 June 1968

Coordination Committee of the Action Committees
Movement of support for the struggles of the people
Movement of March 22

(3 June 1968 – Coordination Committee of the Action Committees)

Offset/screenprint

40 x 56 cm

Documented in:
Mesa p.69; Camard #46; Beauty #160b; Gasquet p.20; Murs #138; Chartres #154; Artcurial #431

Online Resources:
ENSBA #10574
BNF

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