On banner:
“The Youth of Hauts-de-Seine
Are for trades and jobs with wages greater than 600F
Want: A Programme of Nationalisation and a Popular Government”
Photographic print
(13 May 1968 – Photo Azeustarck)
16 x 23.5cm
On rear of photo:
26 Saturday May 2018
Posted May 13-19 1968, Photograph
inOn banner:
“The Youth of Hauts-de-Seine
Are for trades and jobs with wages greater than 600F
Want: A Programme of Nationalisation and a Popular Government”
Photographic print
(13 May 1968 – Photo Azeustarck)
16 x 23.5cm
On rear of photo:
18 Friday May 2018
Posted Booklet, Dali, May 13-19 1968, Surrealist, Tract
in(Click on image to view PDF of full document)
MY CULTURAL REVOLUTION
by Salvador DALI
MY CULTURAL REVOLUTION
I, Salvador Dalí, an apostolic Roman Catholic, apolitical to the highest degree and spiritually monarchist, I note with modesty and jubilation that all the enthusiasms of today’s creative youth are united around a single virtue: opposition to the bourgeois culture.
The most beautiful and the most profound cultural revolutions were made without barricades, with the insurrectional violence animating solely the spirit, the master of space and time. It is by an excavating process, quite the opposite of barricades, that we can give to the past a means of getting round into the future. It was a rediscovery of fragments of “antique” sculpture that brought about, in the 16th century, the cultural revolution rightly called the Renaissance. All real cultural revolutions must be in contact with the evolution of a new style. The Louis 14th style, which was the apotheosis of the Renaissance, was ruined by the revolution, which was to give a vilifying power to the bourgeoisie. The spherical architectures of Ledoux, intended for the workers in a lyrical vision of the city, came to be abandoned by the skeptical, rational and functional bourgeoisie.
I bring to the new revolution what is mine: that is, my paranoid method of criticism, uniquely adapted, it seems to me, to the felicitously irrational nature of the events unfolding. In the light of this method, I offer the following suggestions:
COLOUR
The colour of modern cultural revolutions is no longer red, but an amethyst colour, evoking the air, the sky, fluidity. This is the colour that corresponds to a change in era. The age of Aquarius, which will determine the next millennium, will see the disappearance of bloodshed. For the time being, we have just assassinated The Fish [“God is dead!”], and the blue sea is tinted by his blood, giving the waves this amethyst colour.
STRUCTURE
Bourgeois culture can only be replaced vertically. Culture will be disembourgeoised only by deproletarising society and turning the functions of the mind upward, by redirecting them toward their transcendent and legitimate divine origin. An aristocracy of the mind must emerge . . .
Practically, it is a matter of quantifying the monuments of bourgeois culture. Not destroying them but, by filling them up with new information, modifying their intention. For example, add to the feet of the Auguste Comte statue a shrine to his St. Clothilde, patron saint of humanity according to positivist folly. This shrine would be an amethyst cradle filled with helium, in which would float, by
rote, the most beautiful naked girls in a state of hibernation for the morose delight of voyeur students, providing a respite from their severely and scientifically controlled hallucinogenic experiences.
For the same price l propose to drape public monuments in certain towns with panoplies created by artists who, like Paco Rabane, are capable of celebrating the coming of the Aquarian millennium.
QUANTIFIED INSTITUTIONS
Add a quantum of libido to anti-pleasure organisations such as UNESCO. Make UNESCO a ministry of public Cretinization, so that we will not lose what has already been done. Blend in some laudable folkloric prostitution, but add to it a strong dose of libidinal and spiritual energy. Thus transform this centre of superboredom into a genuine erogenous zone under the auspices of Saint Louis, chief legislator of venal love.
JUSTICE
Activation of cybernetic-research commissions for the resurrection and glorification of great thoughts that have fallen victim to materialism. Examples: the combinative wheels of Raymond Lulle, the natural theology of Raymond de Sebonde, the treatise of Paracelsus, Guadí’s architecture of Mediterranean Gothic inspiration, Francesco Pyiols’ hyperaxiology, Raymond Roussels’ anti-Jules Verne poetics, the theoreticians of traditional mystical thought, all those who are genuinely inspired. Do not desecrate their unworthy tombs. Dig them up and bury them anew, but in the most sumptuous of futuristic mausoleums, imagined by Nicolas Ledoux.
NOTE
Where the cultural revolution takes place, the fantastic should sprout up.
Paris, Saturday, May 18, 1968.
17 Thursday May 2018
Posted May 13-19 1968, Mouvement du 22 Mars, Students, Tract
inLET’S CONTINUE THE BATTLE IN THE STREET
After Pompidou’s speech, it is clear that our aims and those of the bourgeois state are not the same:
– The police repression of recent demonstrations shows that the state cannot tolerate direct confrontation with the authorities in the streets.
– Appeals for co-operation and to the good sense of the mandarins and various bureaucratic apparatuses, plus the reopening of the Sorbonne, show that the state wants to smother and direct the stream of discontent which has been sparked off by the use of repression by tolerating only the traditional forms of opposition: parliamentarianism, discussion round the fireside of the same type as the Grégoire and Tourée commissions, etc. This form of opposition has already shown its sterility.
– Students, school pupils, the young unemployed, lecturers and workers were not fighting side by side in the barricades last Friday night to save the university for the sake of bourgeois interests: there is a whole generation of future managerial staffs who refuse to be the planners of bourgeois needs or the agents of exploitation and continued repression of the workers.
– The state has presumed to represent the general interest and to play the role of arbiter between the classes: the law (400 arrests) and order (more than 1,000 wounded) apparatus has shown clearly that it represents the interests of only one class and defends only bourgeois order.
– Those in power are biding their time today, they tremble for their future. The spontaneous new forms of confrontation which occurred on Friday are. intolerable to the bourgeoisie: the barricades in the Latin Quarter are not simply an expression of students defending their interests as students, their real point is to encourage others to enter into direct confrontation with the state and its police force. This is why young workers were fighting side by side with students, school pupils and lecturers on the barricades: the battle against the police apparatus is the struggle of every worker.
FROM NOW ON
IT IS IN THE STREET
IN THE FACTORIES
THAT THE STRUGGLE AGAINST BOURGEOIS OPPRESSION AND REPRESSION CONTINUES!
16 Wednesday May 2018
Posted Agence France Presse, Jacques Sauvageot, May 13-19 1968, Photograph, Students, UNEF
inPOLITICAL STATEMENT BY MR. SAUVAGEOT
During a press conference Mr. Jacques Sauvageot, deputy President of the UNEF, made a political statement, that can be summarised under four points:
1. Institution of “student power” with a right of veto.
2. The autonomy of universities and faculties.
3. The expansion of the current protest movement to the news, the press, and to cultural and artistic activities.
4. A united movement with factory and agricultural workers.
Photographic print
(17 May 1968 – AFP)
17.7 x 13.5cm
14 Monday May 2018
Posted Comites d'Action, May 13-19 1968, Students, Tract
inEVERYONE 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!
13 Sunday May 2018
Posted Gilles Caron, May 13-19 1968, Night of the Barricades, Photograph
inPhotographic Print
(13 May 1968 – Gilles Caron)
19.5 x 30.4
From rear of photograph:
22 Monday Aug 2016
Posted May 13-19 1968, PCF, Tract, Uncategorized
inSATURDAY MAY 18 at 1P.M.
STATEMENT TO “FRANCE-INTER” by WALDECK ROCHET
Secretary General of The Communist Party of France
The events which are unfolding in both the University and in the Working Class express the profound dissatisfaction that has accumulated over ten years, directed against anti-social and reactionary policies and a state in the service of big capital.
The Workers’ struggle experiences new developments every hour.
The French Communist Party reaffirms its total solidarity with workers fighting for their claims, as it has asserted with the students’ struggle for a modern and democratic University.
Both workers and unions demand increases in wages, the immediate revocation of the orders on Social Security, the guarantee of full employment, reduction of working time and the extension of trade union freedom.
It is essential to meet the most pressing demands of the workers.
The current events constitute the condemnation of the Gaullist government and its policies.
It is high time to bring this government to an end and to promote a genuine democracy which can open the way to socialism, and act in the interests of the people and the Nation.
For the achievement of these objectives the French Communist Party considers it imperative to reach an accord on a socially progressive programme between parties of the left and trade unions, by majority agreement.
We believe this program should provide for the application of far-reaching reforms to shield the state from the grip of capitalist monopolies, and for the implementation of a plan for economic and social development to progressively meet the demands of both blue- and white-collar workers. These reforms should aim to involve citizens in decisions affecting the economic, political and cultural life of the country.
It is time to plan for the establishment of a popular government and a democratic union. For its part, the French Communist Party is willing to take on it’s full responsibilities.
22 Monday Aug 2016
Posted Comites d'Action, May 13-19 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
inWE 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
22 Monday Aug 2016
Posted CDR, Gaullist, May 13-19 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
inWARNING!
French women,
French men,
A subversive undertaking threatens France.
A minority is attempting to impose its rule.
Today everyone is faced with his duty of opposing this.
Every one of you, men, women, young or less young, must defend his future.
Every one of you must be prepared to defend his most precious possession: freedom.
We are here to help you.
Join the Committees for the Defence of the Republic.
Office – Committee Room
5, rue de Solférino
75 – PARIS 7th
22 Monday Aug 2016
Posted CAL, May 13-19 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
inFacing the situation characterised by:
– The scale of the growth of the movement in the high schools, the faculties and the factories
– The threats of repression from the state and the administration
The CAL summons ALL high school students to an
extraordinary General Assembly on Sunday 19 May
2pm at the Grand Amphi at the Sorbonne
High School Action Committees
11, rue Jean de Beauvais
PARIS 5th
Office at the Sorbonne
Staircase B, Amphi Milne Edwards