Category Archives: June 3-9 1968

Poster – “Frey – Civic Action. Head of the informers. Assassin of Charonne. Boss of the strike-breakers” (7 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

11 Friday Nov 2016

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“Frey – Civic Action. Head of the informers. Assassin of Charonne. Boss of the strike-breakers”
(7 June – Atelier Populaire)

This poster refers to Roger Frey – a Gaullist politician reviled for his role in the violent crackdown on protests against the Algerian War in Paris. The most notorious being the massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961 and the 1962 Charonne Metro killings.

Maroon/brown screen-print on newpaper

49 x 66 cm

Documented in:
Camard #121a; Les Affiches #136; Wlassikoff p92; Beauty #21; Gasquet p38; Mesa p80; Beaubourg #18; Murs #123; Chartres #109

Online Resources:
BNF
Zurich
ENSBA #10595/#10686

Tract – “Faculty of Medicine” (7 June 1968 – Faculty of Medicine)

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

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FACULTY OF MEDICINE

Medical students no longer want a news service controlled by the Police.

 This Friday, throughout France, the Action Committees are organising rallies to support the 13,000 Workers of the ORTF that the Government would like to keep quiet; as well as to explain the political dimension of their struggle.  

 A rally for the Faculty has been organised for 6pm in LECTURE ROOM BINET, followed by a discussion. 

 The fighting, which has gone on since May 3, has shown that it’s in the streets, in the lecture rooms, through the occupation of workplaces, that the State can be made to retreat.

 Everywhere, the struggle can lead to a definitive Victory.

 Let’s find new ways to cut down Gaullism and to prepare the Workers’ victory. 

EVERYONE COME TO LECTURE ROOM BINET, FRIDAY 7TH AT 6PM.

 E V E R Y O N E  C O M E   TO   L E C T U R E   R O O M   B I N E T
 F R I D A Y   7   J U N E   A T   6 P M

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 – “To all Workers” (7 June 1968 – Internationale Situationniste/CMDO)

07 Tuesday Jun 2016

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National Council of French Employers
31 rue Pierre 1er de Serbie – Paris 16e

To all Workers:

Ladies,
Gentlemen,

In an agreement with the majority of your unions we have granted you many dozens of hours of extra paid leave along with significant increases in wages.

Therefore, on the eve of the summer holidays, we suggest that you leave for Club Med and no longer concern yourself with “workers’ councils” and “class struggle” . 

Would you also please steer clear of occupying the factories.

Yours Sincerely,
Paris, 7 June 1968
For the C.N.P.F., the president
P. HUVELIN

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

06 Monday Jun 2016

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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 – “At Citroen – the Workers will get rid of the Traitors and Capitulators” (5 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

05 Sunday Jun 2016

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“At Citroen – the Workers will get rid of the Traitors and Capitulators”

(5-7 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

Red screenprint on newsprint

48 x 76 cm

Documented in:
Gasquet p. 60 ; Wlassikoff p.44 ; Artcurial #364 ; Camard #87 ; Mesa p86; Beauborg #148 ; Paves; Peters #100; Murs #122  Chartres #65 ; Dobson #106

Online References: 
ENSBA # 10612 
BNF
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 153
Zurich – 64-0737

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

03 Friday Jun 2016

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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

Poster – “The RATP (Paris Metro) will hold firm” (3 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

02 Thursday Jun 2016

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“The RATP (Paris Metro) will hold firm” 

(3 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

Blue & Red litho on semi-gloss paper (ENSBA stamp)

42 x 62.5 cm

Documented in:
Gasquet p. 65 ; Camard #77a ; Imagination #17 ; Wlassikoff p.97 ; Peters #141 ; Les Affiches #65 ; Mesa p70 ; UUU p42 ; Dobson #113 ; Beaubourg #147 ; Beauty #196 ; Paris p103; Artcurial #405

Online Resources:
ENSBA # 10630
BNF 

Poster – Cross of Lorraine (June 3 1968, Fac Medicine)

07 Thursday May 2015

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Cross of Lorraine 

(3 June 1968, Fac Medicine)


Black screen-print on newsprint

This poster was released just after de Gaulle had announced the election to be held at the end of June.

The Cross of Lorraine (Croix de Lorraine) was the symbol of Free France (the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle) during World War 2, and was retained by de Gaulle after the war as the symbol of his political movement: Gaullism.

So here we have a depiction of the generic French voter with de Gaulle’s symbol screwed right into his brain.

Documented in:

Camard #145; Peters #237; Beauty #146; Beaubourg #71;  Gasquet p.97; Paves; Dobson #67
Online References:
BnF

Zurich – 64-0708