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

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

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

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.                                           

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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 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

(Translated in Beauty – pp 211-2) 

DE GAULLE AT THE DOOR!

 The Motion to Censure did not pass, and already the ministers lift up their heads, forgetting their fear of the day before, and already some hesitate to continue the struggle. Both sides are fooling themselves just as much as the other. 
 We do not need an impotent and hostile parliament to recognise our force. No censure will be as strong and definitive as this one, given by 10 million strikers. 
 No permission is any longer necessary for the masses to make their will to power known.

The State? 
 It has lost its universities, its manufacturer of fake ideas and of the framework of oppression
 It has lost its factories, its control of economic activity, its riches. 
 The State has lost everything; it has nothing left but power:

IT IS FOR THE TAKING. 

 But already the CRS attempts to attack the picket lines of strikes that are isolated from one another and therefore vulnerable. In the street we oppose them in a united front. 
 Today, the small farmers, in turn, show their opposition to the regime.

WORKERS, FARMERS, STUDENTS,
AGAINST THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM,
TOGETHER IN THE STREET

 In France, foreign workers, the most exploited, those at the greatest risk, are shoulder to shoulder with us. De Gaulle claims to forbid one of our comrades to return. If COHN-BENDIT is a foreigner, we are all foreigners!

NO BORDERS!
COHN-BENDIT WITH US!

 In Belgium, in Germany, in Italy, in England, in Holland, in all capitalist countries, struggles similar to ours or unified with our combat are developing.

LONG LIVE THE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY OF WORKERS AND STUDENTS

 Our industry, regional, and faculty Action Committees are already bringing together thousands of workers and students who do not want their struggle to be in vain:

EVERYONE TO THE DEMONSTRATION
 Friday May 24 at 5:00 p.m.

-Place Clichy -Stalingrad -Porte des Lilas -Porte de Montreuil

 We will gather at the Gare de Lyon at 7 p.m.

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!

THE ACTION COMMITTEES