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Tract – “The Combat Continues” (10 May 1968 – FER)

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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FER —— REVOLTES —— FER

The nation bureau of the revolutionary federation of students declares:

 the fight continues!

 The government dreads the students combining with the working class.

 Last Monday it savagely beat the students, BUT THEY FOUGHT BACK.

 On Tuesday it couldn’t prevent 50,000 workers and students from holding the street for 6 hours, until the government made the Latin Quarter prohibited. The fight is paying off, but nothing has been won.

 THE U.N.E.F. HAS ASKED THE CONFEDERATIONS TO ORGANISE A GENERAL PROTEST.

       we’ll fight

 workers, students 

       together!

STUDENTS, WORKERS, 

 To triumph, it’s necessary to set up a way to organise democratic decisions on action against the machinery of the centralised state.

 The workers and students must hold assemblies and form their strike committees in every faculty and enterprise, with representatives that are elected and subject to recall at any time, forming a NATIONAL STRIKE COMMITTEE AND PREPARING PROTESTS TOGETHER WITH THE WORKERS.

THE U.N.E.F. MUST CALL FOR ALL WORKERS AND THEIR ORGANISATIONS to

PROTEST Saturday 11 May  
AT 3PM, DENFERT ROCHEREAU.

FOR — the freeing of our imprisoned comrades
  — the removal of the police
  — the reopening of the faculties
  — the abolition of the Selection Commissions

take part in the THE RALLY of the FER 
Friday 10 May, 8:30pm
   At the Mutualité 

Tract – “For the Creation of the Revolutionary Youth Organisation” (6 May 1968 – FER)

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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(Translation – Fisera 23)

FOR THE CREATION OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH ORGANISATION

MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS

YOUNG PEOPLE – SCHOOL STUDENTS – APPRENTICES

– STUDENTS –

    For the first time since 1940 a vice-chancellor has dared to call the police into the university!

    Only the Gestapo and Pétain, in their time, closed down the Sorbonne.
 MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, YOUNG PEOPLE, SCHOOL STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, APPRENTICES,
    the freedom of the university is an integral part of democratic freedom and workers’ freedom. 

 THEY ARE LYING TO YOU , when they tell you students want to defend their privileges. 

OUR FREEDOM ARE ALSO YOURS

    If the bourgeoisie wipe out our freedoms, they are also wiping out yours.

 WHY ARE STUDENTS FIGHTING? 

    The Ministry and the Government want to expel from the university 2/3 of the students whom the Gaullist vice-chancellor has described as “scum”. 

 MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, YOUNG PEOPLE, SCHOOL STUDENTS, STUDENTS APPRENTICES,
 THE FER SAYS: 

    In order to ensure the survival of the profit régime, the bourgeoisie and the state have established a whoIe series of structures aiming to impose unemployment and dismissals, the end of Social Security and pension schemes, to destroy workers’ organisations and freedoms.                       

 FOR CAPITAL AND ITS STATE
    – There are too many workers in the factories,
    – There are too many office employees, 
    – There are too many peasants,
    – There are too many schoolchildren in the schools, too many apprentices in the technical colleges, too many students in the universities!

—–

The students say NO! 

    to selection, to repression, as the CAEN workers said no on 26 January, whilst fighting against unemployment and sackings.

  This is why at Nanterre, at Halle-aux-Vins, at Censier and at the Sorbonne, gardes mobiles, guards helmeted, with shields, clubs, rifles, and tear-gas grenades, savagely attacked male and female workers who were demonstrating FOR FREEDOM, FOR THE RIGHT TO STUDY, FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE.  

 MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, YOUNG PEOPLE, SCHOOL STUDENTS, STUDENTS APPRENTICES,
THE STUDENTS FIGHT IS YOURS TOO

 In solidarity, students, lecturers, pupils’ parents, young people, ALL ORGANISATIONS UNITED

  CAN MAKE THE GOVERNMENT STAND DOWN 

 We, the revolutionary students of the Federation of Revolutionary Students, have proposed the following objective to our trade-union organisation, UNEF: 

  A GENERAL STRIKE OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, for the respect of freedoms, against sanctions, against police despotism in the university.

We, the revolutionary students of the FER, stand
– against the expulsion of students from the university                    
– for the right to study
– against unemployment
– for the defence of university, democratic and workers’ freedoms.

WE ASK ALL MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS to impose on their managers:

A CENTRAL DEMONSTRATION OF WORKERS, YOUNG PEOPLE AND STUDENTS

MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, it depends on us, and we shall accept our responsibilities, it depends on you, and you will accept your responsibilities so that resolutely, in a united battle, our legitimate demands will be satisfied.

THE DESTINY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IS TO BE DECIDED.
THE DESTINY OF YOUR CHILDREN IS TO BE DECIDED.
YOUR FUTURE IS TO BE DECIDED.

EVERYBODY TO THE RALLY OF THE F.E.R., FRIDAY MAY 10, at 8:30 p.m. ,


        At the Mutualité.

Tract – “University Students, High-school Students, Young Workers” (May 5 1968 – FER)

05 Thursday May 2016

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This tract was distributed on or around May 5. Given that it was offset printed, rather than mimeographed like most of the early student pamphlets, it is almost certain that it was printed before the events of May 3 took place.

It therefore gives a good indication of the state of radical student politics on the very eve of May 1968.

(Translated in Schnapp – Document 49)


University Students, High-School Students, Young Workers


At the moment when students in Prague, Warsaw, Berlin, Madrid, Algiers, New York, Tokyo, and Rome were fighting in the streets against the forces of order and reaction, in Paris, on April 27 and 28, 200 delegates representing 1100 militants, headed by young revolutionaries (“Révoltes”) and the Liaison Committee of Revolutionary Students announced the formation of a

Federation of Revolutionary Students

University students, high-school students, young workers,

At the moment when imperialism is striking at youth and the working class with blood and iron, when Stalinist bureaucracy is striking at and imprisoning students and workers fighting for socialism and worker councils, when student combats augur huge confrontations, on an international scale, between the working classes and imperialism, between the working classes and Stalinist bureaucracy, the revolutionary students declared:

At the moment when de Gaulle is planning to make the working class and, to begin with, young workers and young intellectuals, pay the price for the rationalisation of French economy, at the moment when layoffs are increasing, when unemployment is hitting hundreds of thousands of young workers, when Peyrefitte is preparing to exclude 300,000 students from the University, THE FEDERATION OF REVOLUTIONARY STUDENTS DECLARES:

DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM!

DOWN WITH STALINISM!

LONG LIVE SOCIALISM!


RESISTANCE IS POSSIBLE,
WE MUST ORGANISE IT.

WE INSIST ON A JOINT DEMONSTRATION OF THE YOUTH OF PARIS!

 University Students, men and women, Lycée students, Young Workers,

 On April 27 and 28 the FEDERATION OF REVOLUTIONARY STUDENTS came out in favor of formation of the Revolutionary Organisation of Youth and of the Revolutionary International of Youth.

 On April 27 and 28 the Federation of Revolutionary Students declared that it casts its lot with the fight led by young revolutionaries grouped around the periodical “Revoltés” in order to assemble 3,500 young people at the Mutualité on June 29 and 30.

(page 2)

 The Federation of Revolutionary Students calls on hundreds of thousands of students to fight for socialism, against capitalism, against reformist and Stalinist bureaucracies, BY JOINING ITS RANKS.

 The Federation of Revolutionary Students calls on students to fight by the thousands under the flag of socialism!

 The F.E.R. calls on students by the thousands to help build the revolutionary youth organization.

———-

 The FER calls all Paris students to its joint proclamation rally on May 10 in Paris at 8:30 p.m., at the Mutualité.


EVERYBODY 
COME TO THE F.E.R. RALLY
Friday, May 10 at 8:30 p.m.at the Mutualité

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