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Tract – (8 June 1968 – Action Committees, Movement 22 March)

08 Friday Jun 2018

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RENAULT-FLINS; VICTORIOUS RESUMPTION OF THE STRIKE

– Capital believed it was attacking the weak link of the metal-working industry (an isolated factory, no union tradition, a number of immigrant workers, a fascist organisation in the factories).

– It sent 5,000 CRS, mobile guards, a half-track, etc…, to protect the scabs’ “freedom to work.”

– But the workers of Flins continue the combat. Friday, at 5:00am, they amassed with a number of students in front of the thousands of cops protecting the factory.

Workers and students overtake the CRS along the route where the cars arrive, carrying the workers who were tricked into thinking they were resuming work. They get into each car to explain the situation, and quickly all of the cars are empty and the 9,000 workers are united in a meeting to continue the strike.

– It is then (10 in the morning) that the mobile guards attack the gatherings of workers in Elizabethville. Not only do the workers have no access to their factory, but the neighboring villages are also prohibited.

– All day the workers, at first surprised and unarmed, respond and hold on before the mobile guards.

Power is forced to add 50 cars of CRS during Friday night.

This morning L’Humanité says it is the student provocateurs that are at the origin of the violence. This is a lie. It was the workers of Flins (there were 8,000 of them) who sent for the students. It was the CRS, by their scandalous presence in the factory and the surrounding area, who provoked the workers of Flins. The students who wish to retake the Sorbonne understand the workers of Flins who wish to retake their factory: that’s why they were yesterday and are still at the side of the workers in the face of the repression of the bosses and the police.

The reality: is the anger of the workers.

The reality: is the fraternization of the workers and the students.

Today the strike movement turns its eyes to RENAULT-FLlNS. Entire sectors take up the struggle again; the postal sorting offices, Berliet, etc… go back on strike, seeing in the fighting spirit of the workers of Flins the sign of an ongoing struggle for the abolition of the bosses.

The workers of Flins have opened a new stage of the struggle.

LET’S MOBILIZE; all of the businesses, all of the workers, all of the students.

LET’S REINFORCE THE STRIKE MOVEMENT.

SUNDAY AND MONDAY will be two decisive days for the workers’ struggle.

Coordination of the Action Committees of the Parisian Region
Movement of Support for the Struggles of the people
Movement of March 22

Tract – “Let’s Continue the Battle in the Street” (17 May 1968 – Mouvement du 22 Mars)

17 Thursday May 2018

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LET’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!

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

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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

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Tract – “Your struggle is our struggle!” (21 May 1968 – Mouvement du 22 Mars)

21 Saturday May 2016

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(Translated in Fisera – Document 59)

YOUR STRUGGLE IS OUR STRUGGLE!

 We are occupying the faculties, you are occupying the factories. Aren’t we fighting for the same thing?

Higher education only contains 10 per cent workers’ children. Are we fighting so that there will be more of them, for a democratic university reform? That would be a good thing, but it’s not the most important. These workers children would just become like other students. We are not aiming for a worker’s son to be a manager, We want to wipe out segregation between workers and management.

 There are students who are unable to find jobs on leaving university. Are we fighting so that they’ll find jobs, for a decent graduate employment policy? It would be a good thing, but it is not vital. Psychology or sociology graduates will become the selectors, the planners and psycho-technicians who will try to organise your working conditions; mathematics graduates will become engineers, perfecting maximum-productivity machines to make your life even more unbearable. Why are we, students who are products of middle-class life, criticising capitalist society? The son of a worker who becomes a student leaves his own class. For the son of a middle-class family, it could be his opportunity to see his class in its true light, to question the role he is destined for in society and the organisation of our society. We refuse to besome scholars who are out of touch with real life. We refuse to be used for the benefit of the ruling class. We want to destroy the separation that exists between those who organise and think and those who execute their decisions. We want to form a classless society; your cause is the same as ours.

 You are asking for a minimum wage of 1,000 Francs in the Paris area, retirement at sixty, a 40-hour week for 48 hours’ pay.

 These are long-standing and just demands: nevertheless. they seem to be out of context with our aims. Yet you have gone on to occupy factories, take your managers as hostages, strike without warning, These forms of struggle have been made possible by perseverance and lengthy action in various enterprises, and because of the recent student battles.

 These struggles are even more radical than our official aims. because they go further than simply seeking improvements for the worker within the capitalist system, they imply the destruction of the system. They are political in the true sense of the word: you are fighting not to change the Prime Minister, but so that your boss no longer retains his power in business or society. The form that your struggle has taken offers us students the model for true socialist activity: the appropriation of the means of production and of the decision-making power by the workers.

 Our struggles converge. We must destroy everything that seeks to alienate us (everyday habits, the press, etc.). We must combine our occupations in the faculties and factories.

Long live the unification of our struggles !

Everybody to the four rallies and the demonstration at the Gare de Lyon, on Friday May 24 May 1968, at 7 p.m.

Movement of 22 March 1968

Tract – “Against the Police State, We Continue the Fight in the Streets” (12 May 1968 – Mouvement du 22 Mars)

12 Thursday May 2016

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(Translated in Schnapp – Document 61)

AGAINST THE POLICE STATE WE MUST CONTINUE THE FIGHT

Following in the footsteps of the workers of Caen, Mulhouse, Le Mans, Redon, and the Rhodiaceta, during the night of Friday, May 10, 1968, University and high-school students, teachers, and workers who demonstrated against police state repression, fought in the streets for several hours against 10,000 cops. The bourgeoisie tried to crush a form of protest and demands that directly threatens the regime. The repression was fierce, the resistance tenacious. The cops used all means: incendiary bombs, DEADLY GASES (C.B. and C.S. gas are forbidden by international agreements and unknown to the medical services), chlorine grenades, bullets made of hard plastic. The demonstrators and the population were asphyxiated by the gases, wounded by gunflash, beaten with bludgeons and blackjacks, pursued into apartment houses, given the “third degree” in the police stations, arrested by the hundreds. Red Cross first aid stations were sacked; wounded on stretchers were beaten hard.

The demonstrators, fully supported by the inhabitants of the Latin Quarter, met this violence with political determination; at the barricades the mercenaries of the bourgeoisie were treated to the delights of Molotov cocktails and a shower of paving stones. Several hundreds of them were put out of commission. Students and workers will not forget this lesson.

Faced with this resistance and increasing support from the working masses, the police state is forced to retreat and would appear to be giving in to the three conditions the demonstrators have posed as prerequisites to any discussion. But the basic problems remain unsolved.

The fight against police repression is the fight against the State and against capitalist exploitation. The cops are nothing but the flunkies of de Gaulle and de Gaulle is nothing but the current flunkey of the bourgeoisie.

In the present stage of the struggle, we demand as a prerequisite to the resumption of University life:

(page 2)

– The definitive release of all demonstrators who are being held, whether students or workers, French or foreigners, and including those whom the bourgeoisie has described as “looters.”
– The immediate and final cessation of legal and administrative action because of political activity, whatever the pretext.

On the other hand, since we have proof of criminal acts committed by the cops during the night of Friday, we demand as a new prerequisite:
– The resignation of the killer, Grimaud, Chief of Police, chief of the Paris coppers.
– The resignation of the killer, Fouchet, Minister of the Interior and number one cop in France.

For such acts not to be repeated it is necessary:
– To start a legal investigation of police crimes, with the participation of representatives of the demonstrators side by side with the magistrates of bourgeois justice
– To disarm the CRS = SS, the gardes-mobiles and other detachments specialised in repression.

It is clear that the bourgeoisie will not want to disarm their executioners.
We will force them to do so through our action.

To make an end to repression, workers and students must win their freedom in the streets. As long as the cops are armed, students and workers must organise their self-defence to victoriously resist organised repression.

DOWN WITH THE POLICE STATE! DOWN WITH CAPITALISM!!
FOR SOCIALISM. WORKERS AND STUDENTS, WE MUST FIGHT IN THE STREETS!

EVERYBODY COME TO THE DEMONSTRATION,
Monday, 13 May 1968
GARE DE L’EST, 1:30 pm

MARCH 22ND MOVEMENT 

Tract – “1,000 Injured – 3 Dead – CS Gas” (9 May 1968 – Mouvement du 22 Mars/CAL/Comité d’Action Lycéen)

09 Monday May 2016

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(Translated in Fisera – Document 28)

1,000 Injured – 3 Dead – CS Gas

“LET’S GATHER OURSELVES AND TOMORROW…”

WHY?
Because students refuse to become management cadres, accessories to and profiteers from the exploitation of workers.
Because they reject the so-called “dialogue” which only reflects decisions already taken in high places.
When this rejection changes from words into action (occupation of lecture rooms, showing banned political films, boycotting of exams, etc…)
When for workers this rejection has but one means of expression:
VIOLENCE.

The bourgeois State has onIy one answer:
REPRESSION:

Blackmail via grants,
Threats of expulsion,
Blacklists
Interventions by cops in university premises
massive arrests
imprisonments
Threats of dismissal for workers.

WE DENOUNCE:

The decision to re-open the faculties with the sole aim of having exams taken. We do not want to be capital’s watchdogs.
The diversion of a worldwide movement of confrontation, by the usual bureaucratic devices, into a reformist movement fitting the framework of the imperialism of the bourgeois university.

LET US TAKE ACTION:
Let us reject the normal functioning of the university until foreign students and workers are freed. From today masses of students will occupy university premises in order to impose on it:

THE POWER OF POLITICAL CONFRONTATION
THE IMMEDIATE LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST ALL THOSE STILL THREATENED WITH PENAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES

WE WILL NOT GIVE WAY TO BLACKMAIL.

(page 2)

– Let us not be divided, faced with an escalation of repression, let us oppose it steadfastly.
– Let us organize in order to carry on the battle in our own neighbourhoods and places of work.

WE WILL DEMONSTRATE FRIDAY 10 MAY AT 10:30AM PLACE DENFERT ROCHEREAU

“LET’S GATHER OURSELVES AND TOMORROW…”