05 Monday Dec 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, Flins, Poster, Renault, Uncategorized
“Effective Contact with Flins”
(15 June – Atelier Populaire)
Black screen-print on newspaper
60 x 80 cm
Documented in:
Mesa p118; Dobson #139; UUU p62; Peters #132; Beaubourg #118; Camard #75; Les Affiches #49; Wlassikoff p107, Beauty #37; Gasquet p76; Artcurial #396; Chartres #74
Online Resources:
BNF
Zurich 64-0712
ENSBA #10601
27 Saturday Aug 2016
Posted in June 10-16 1968, Renault, Tract, Uncategorized
On 10 June, our comrade Gilles TAUTIN, a 17 year old high-school student, died – murdered by the Gaullist police. He had gone to Flins, outpost of the the proletarian resistance, to put himself at the service of the legitimate struggle of the workers of Renault for the satisfaction of all their claims and for the freedom of their factory.
GILLES died in the service of the people, for the union of the youth with the workers’ movement. From this point on his name is inseparable from the popular revolution, the springtime of our people.
We will escort Gilles for the last time in militant discipline.
The cortege will assemble on Saturday at 3pm, in front of his parents home, 120 Bd Berthier (17th)
His comrades.
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You have fallen for all who starve
All who are despised and oppressed
From your pity for your brothers
Wonderful martyrs and victims.
Chorus
But the hour has sounded and the people victorious
Stretch out, breathe and prosper.
Farewell comrades, Farewell noble hearts;
Farewell most noble brothers.
The prize of your efforts, the sentence of death
Or else a life in chains,
The noise of your shackles is pregnant with
The plains of Siberia.
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
06 Monday Jun 2016
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
