16 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, Elections, June 10-16 1968, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers
THE STATE IS CALM
it has built its electoral machine
LET’S FIGHT
on our
battlefield
THE OCCUPATION
OF THE FACTORIES
(16 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Blue screen-print (Atelier Populaire stamp)
47.5 x 76 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 192 ; Camard #88b ; Mesa p110, UUU p79, Dobson #185 ; Beaubourg #121 ; Murs #177 ; Chartres #79 ; Beauty #69; Artcurial #413
Online Resources:
BNF
ENSBA # 10770
Zurich – 64-0740
15 Wednesday Jun 2016
ELECTIONS
Deception? Trickery? Mockery? Division? Betrayal? Takeover?
LEGITIMATE? NO!
Rigged: Electoral lists are not updated! Doctored electoral districts! Youth under 21 can’t vote, 2,500,000 (foreign) workers can’t vote!
DEMOCRATIC? NO!
Fascist: Progressive organizations have been dissolved! The Government has freed the OAS terrorists! The State spreads repression in the factories and in the streets through its police and CDR commandos!
FREE? NO!
Poisoned: The ORTF is besieged by the army! (Radio) Europe and Luxembourg are owned by the bourgeoisie! The mass media are on capital’s payroll!
THESE ELECTIONS ARE A MANEUVRE TO DIVERT AND SABOTAGE THE REAL DEMOCRACY THAT WAS BORN IN MAY.
– IN MAY THE PEOPLE CHOSE: … WORKERS POWER!
– IN JUNE THE PANICKING POLITICIANS MADE THEMSELVES THE ACCOMPLICES OF CAPITALIST POWER BY SUPPORTING THEIR ELECTIONS
Co-ordination of Action Committees
(June 1968 – Coordination des Comités d’Action)
46 x 61.5 cm
Documented in:
Beauty #214; Gasquet p. 52
Online Resources:
BNF
Zurich – 64-0668
13 Monday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, June 10-16 1968, Poster, Uncategorized
“Hold firm Comrades, Everyone United until Victory”
(13 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Blue screen-print on newsprint (no stamp)
56 x 78 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 144 ; Wlassikoff p.130 ; Paves ; Chartres #112 ; Beauty #129 ; Dobson #192; Artcurial #380 ; Camard #49b ; Les Affiches #37
Online Resources:
ENSBA # 10599
BNF
12 Sunday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, June 10-16 1968, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers
“The Metal Workers will hold firm for the struggle of all Workers”
(12 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Blue screen-print on semi-gloss paper (Atelier Populaire stamp – no border)
42 x 62.5 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 79 Camard # 73b ; Wlassikoff p. 115 ; Dobson #108 ; UUU p. 46 ; Les Affiches #93; Peters #142 ; Beauty #89 ; Mesa p106 ; Murs #125 ; Chartres #62 ; Artcurial #369
Online Resources:
ENSBA # 10689
BNF
Zurich – 64-0667
10 Friday Jun 2016
“Civic Action Committee”
(10 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Blue-black screen-print on salmon newsprint (Atelier Populaire stamp)
25.5 x 55.5 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 38 ; Wlassikoff p.36 ; Camard #122a ; Beaubourg #30 ; Dobson #72 ; Peters #215 ; Beauty #206 ; Mesa p95 ; Dobson #7 ; Murs #92 ; Chartres #110 ; Les Affiches #124
Online Resources:
ENSBA # 10670
BNF
09 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, Flins, June 3-9 1968, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers
“Flins not Cops”
(June 9 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Red screen-print on newsprint (ENSBA stamp)
52 x 67 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 69 ; Beaubourg #138 ; Wlassikoff p. 106 ; Dobson #49 ; Beauty #56 ; Mesa p88 ; Chartres #71 ; Les Affiches #48
Online References:
ENSBA # 10609
BNF
08 Wednesday Jun 2016
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
04 Saturday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, ORTF, Police, Poster, Uncategorized
“The Police at the ORTF are Police at your house”
(3 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Blue screen-print on newsprint (no stamp)
46 x 74 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 122 ; Dobson #84 ; UUU p. 80 ; Beaubourg #78 ; Imagination #19 ; Wlassikoff p. 101 ; Camard #169a ; Artcurial #518 ; Les Affiches #213, Beauty #195 ; Mesa p85 ; Murs #105 ; Chartres #32 ; Paris p71
Online References:
ENSBA # 10547
BNF
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 39
03 Friday Jun 2016
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
02 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, June 3-9 1968, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers
“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
Documents from May 1968 