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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

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

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

Poster – “The Police Speak to You Every Evening at 8pm” (June 6 1968 – École des Arts Décoratifs)

04 Monday May 2015

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“The Police Speak to You Every Evening at 8pm” (


École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs)
Red screenprint on poster paper

46cm x 62cm

Documented in:
Gasquet p. 122; Beaubourg #63 ;Wlassikoff p. 102 ; Camard #180 ; Imagination #45; Artcurial #354 ; Dobson #83 ; UUU p. 83 ; Peters #186 ; Beauty #82+117b ; Paves ; Mesa p85 ; Murs #103 ; Paris p73

Online References:
ENSBA # 10756, 10757
BNF 
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 37

Tract – “What is happening at the ORTF?” (Around 7th June 1968 – Intersyndicale de l’ORTF)

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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UNION OF THE O.R.T.F.

116 Quai du President Kennedy, Paris 16
What is happening at the O.R.T.F.?

The television is on strike

France-Inter is on strike

THE ARMY AND THE POLICE HAVE BESIEGED THE TRANSMITTERS.

The pictures that you see, the news reports that you hear, are no longer ours, but THOSE OF THE GOVERNMENT.  All the staff of the O.R.T.F. are on strike.

WHY?
For impartial NEW REPORTS, honest and complete.
For INDEPENDENCE from the government, whatever it’s [composition].

For quality programmes.

THE FIGHT OF THE O.R.T.F. ON STRIKE IS THAT OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

Tract – “Why is the ORTF on strike?” (Around 3rd June 1968 – Comité de grève)

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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The O.R.T.F. is on strike

WHY  ?

The journalists of the radio and television explain it to you:

More than 12,000 technicians, workers, employees, journalists, filmmakers and presenters have stopped work. They want to serve the 30 million listeners and viewers and not partisan propaganda. The O.R.T.F. must be a true reflection of France and the French, what they do, think, like and desire. This is also what was provided for by the Act of 27 June 1964 on the status of the ORTF which assigned to the Office of French Radio and Television, “objectivity and accuracy of information, giving the ability for large currents of opinion to express themselves through it.”

The journalists of the radio and television, intend to practise our profession freely. We have always sought to do so. But the pressures of the government and the management of the ORTF, chosen by that government, are depriving you of some of the information we gathered for you.

A serious crisis has broken out in the country. Aware of our obligations to you, we have done everything to keep you informed until the day we were totally prevented.. We then refused to provide a truncated newscast and together we protested by stopping work.

Today the problem is posed. The O.R.T.F. must be independent from any government or any party. It is not yet so:

— its board of directors is appointed by the government,

— As its CEO,

— the heads of radio and television are, in fact, appointed in the same manner.

The O.R.T.F. remains the government’s own

The government can:

— cancel a show like “The camera explores time” against the will of viewers,

— sack journalists respected by the public

— censor broadcasts like the sequence in “Panorama” on the student movements,

— in place of commentary made in the world of the workers, peasants or the university, substitute official statements on the same subject …

— divert attention from the French internal situation, to the problems of other countries …

— give the airtime to the majority, refusing it to the opposition and even to public opinion.

This will continue as long as the O.R.T.F. is submitted to the government. This will be so regardless of which government [is in power].

To change this, to ensure the French full and impartial information, the staff of the O.R.T.F propose a statute that provides for:

— the appointment of the management of the Office by representatives of all the forces of the Nation,

— the possibility for all groups: political, union, economic, philosophical or religious to appeal to a council of arbitration in the case of a breach of objectivity.

This statute is realistic : lawyers have studied it, and political groups, trade unions, cultural associations have given it their support. There will be a bill, the Members of Parliament elected by you will be asked to vote on it.

So demand of your candidates, of your associations, of your unions, that they take a stand. This battle concerns you all. The strikers of the O.R.T.F. are fighting for you, they need you.

Poster – “The Struggle Continues” (6th June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

14 Sunday Sep 2014

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“The Struggle Continues”

(June 6 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

Produced around June 5, this poster of a group of workers is one of the most iconic images of May 68. The same image was used on 2 different posters – an earlier one was produced on 20 May with the text ‘Nous somme le pouvoir’ (‘We are the power’ or ‘We are the state’).

Black screen-print on newsprint (stamp of the ‘École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts’ with address on top left)


43cm x 51cm

Documented in:
Gasquet p. 191; Beaubourg #187; Camard #33b; Tchou ; Peters #26 ; Beauty #149 ; Mesa p84 ; Murs #134b; Chartres #52; Paris p46

Online References:
ENSBA #10637
BNF
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 52
Zurich Museum of Design

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