21 Monday May 2018
Posted in Action, Cartoon, Enragés, May 6-12 1968, PCF, Siné, Waldeck Rochet
Study for cartoon – Siné
Pen on tracing paper
9.5 x 13.3cm
In it’s final form this cartoon was published in issue 3 of the journal Action – on 21 May 1968, as below:
The text translates as: ”Take the photos of those two Enragés away from me!”.
The speaker is Waldeck Rochet – the General Secretary of the French Communist Party. “Enragé” was used a designation for ultra-leftists during May 1968, in reference to a radical leftist group from the French Revolution.
15 Tuesday May 2018
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From rear cover of journal:
This is a reprint of a cartoon magazine put out by the Paris students belonging to the Committee of Action – which organised the resistance activities against the authorities.
It is a non-profit edition, published in solidarity with the revolutionary students of France by the revolutionary students of Berkeley, California.
Translated (freely and roughly, in the spirit of the original) by Ruth Porter.
Documents from May 1968 