22 Monday Aug 2016
Posted in CDR, Gaullist, May 13-19 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
WARNING!
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 in CAL, May 13-19 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
Facing 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
22 Monday Aug 2016
Posted in CAET, CAL, May 13-19 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
APPEAL TO YOUNG TEACHERS
LETS JOIN TOGETHER IN STRIKE ACTION FROM 20 MAY
IN OUR INSTITUTIONS
FORM COMMITTEES AND SEND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO:
– C A L SORBONNE ESC. B. 2nd FLOOR
– C A E T SORBONNE , ESC. E, 1st FL
DELAMARE ROOM
NO EXAMS ON 6 JUNE
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CAL. CAET. SORBONNE
22 Monday Aug 2016
Posted in May 20-26 1968, PSU, Tract, Uncategorized
P.S.U.
11th Section
CALL TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE 11th ARRONDISSEMENT
— 600,000 unemployed ……..
— 600,000 Students who refuse an uncertain future enslaved to capitalism
— Millions of workers exploding and occupy their workplaces
— Millions of peasants who revolt.
WHY?
— The Anger of People everywhere has the same basis:
— The refusal of a centralized capitalist society
— Protesting a scornful and authoritarian government, of the bosses and the big agricultural capital.
WHAT TO DO?
Since 1936 dispute through elections, the parliament or via petitions has never resulted in anything.
In contrast, since first the Students, and then the workers have begun to directly confront the government it shrinks back.
We must therefore increase the pressure of direct action until the defeat of capitalism, and the establishment of a Socialist Society.
To organize this action requires that the Workers, whether they are Factory Workers, Peasants, Office Workers or Students, unite in ACTION COMMITTEES at their places of work and residence.
THE UNIFIED SOCIALIST PARTY
invites you to debate with it the action to be taken during a MEETING to be held on:
TUESDAY, MAY 21
20 H 30 at CINEMA “ARTISTIC VOLTAIRE”
45 bis rue Richard Lenoir
With the participation of:
– Mr. BRIDIER Member of P.S.U Nat. Off.
– J. M. VINCENT. ” ” ” ” ”
-C. BALL Secretary General E.S.U.
-A representative of the Action Committee of the “VOLTAIRE” high-school
-A representative of the National Bureau of UNEF
22 Monday Aug 2016
DOWN WITH THE ANTI-POPULAR
GAULLIST REGIME
OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY
On Monday 13 May workers and students, en masse, gave proof of their immense strength. 13th May was an great day of struggle against Gaullism. Workers and progressive students DEMONSTRATED AGAINST GAULLISM. It is no longer a question of fighting for small demands – bourgeois irrelevancies. The Gaullist state currently wants TO BREAK THE TIDAL WAVE raised against it and all reactionary forces. The Sorbonne? It is open again. The freedom of our comrades? Workers and students have demanded it.
SO, WHAT NOW? The mass movement against Gaullism, against the regime of unemployment and poverty must intensify.
THE WORKING CLASS DEMAND THAT THE SACRIFICES THEY HAVE AGREED TO, THE GREAT STRIKE THEY HAVE EMBARKED ON, MUST LEAD TO POSITIVE RESULTS. THE WORKERS WON’T FIGHT FOR NOTHING.
Those who protest, those who strike, like those who haven’t yet gone on strike because they’ve been preparing a massive struggle in the factories against the onslaught of big capital – the great mass of workers aspire to continue the popular battle against big capital and its Gaullist state.
The UNEF, the management of the CFT and of the PCF, GIVE NO CONCRETE POSSIBILITY to strengthen the unity of the people in the struggle against Gaullism.
The workers and progressive students ARE WAITING.
Do they want a parliamentary debate? No.
An adjustment of the bourgeois University? No.
Do they want the rotten politicians of the “left”, the assassins of workers, the J. Moches and the Mollets to profit from the situation and sneak into power? No.
POPULAR GOVERNMENT? YES. MITTERAND? NO!
They want a popular government that gives work to everyone, a university at the service of the people, freedom for the people. They want a regime where workers, farmers, all the people are the masters of the country.
They want to develop the popular movement together.
The workers and the progressive students want to support the development of the strike movement, working towards the common association of active workers and the unemployed, working towards the common association of French and immigrant workers, brothers in the struggle against capitalist poverty.
They want the struggle, under the guidance of the working class, to continue.
EVERYONE TO THE RALLY
TO CONTINUE AND DEVELOP THE POPULAR STRUGGLE AGAINST GAULLISM
The workers are in the front line against Gaullism,
LONG LIVE THE UNION OF WORKERS AND PROGRESSIVE STUDENTS.
AT THE APPEAL OF THE COMMUNIST WORK GROUPS, OF THE UNION OF YOUNG COMMUNISTS (Marxist-Leninist), OF THE “TO SERVE THE PEOPLE” GROUP, OF THE SUPPORT MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE, and OF THE DEFENCE COMMITTEES AGAINST REPRESSION.
SUNDAY 19 MAY
RALLY at 3:30pm at the MULTUALITE
21 Sunday Aug 2016
Posted in Comites d'Action, May 6-12 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
PARIS, May 12 (AFP)
During a press conference held yesterday evening (Sunday) in an amphitheater of the Faculty of Sciences, Dr. KAHN, professor of medicine, protested against the use of a particularly toxic gas during the demonstrations in the Latin Quarter.
The professor revealed that his observations of many students, together with a personal investigation, had enabled him to identify it absolutely as chlorobenzalmalomonitride, more commonly called C.S. or C.B.
This gas, according to Dr. KAHN, which is used by the police in the United States as well as by American troops in Vietnam, is said to attack the human hepatic and renal centres and, in the laboratory, to have been proved fatal to animals that have been given concentrated doses.
But what is serious, added Professor KAHN, is that they have been able to use such a gas during forty-eight hours in Paris without warning the medical authorities, whereas no known antidotes exist in France at this time against this compound.
AFP, 10:41 P.M.
IT ISN’T POSSIBLE TO TALK
WITH AN ASSASSIN AND A LIAR!
WE ARE CONTINUING STREET ACTION
AND OCCUPATION OF THE FACULTIES,
UNTIL
GRIMAUD
AND
FOUCHET
RESIGN
Monday, 2:00 AM
The May 3 Action Committees
21 Sunday Aug 2016
Posted in JCF, May 6-12 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
CALL OF THE COMMUNIST YOUTH MOVEMENT
In the Latin Quarter, on the night of May 10 and 11 1968, the Gaullist police attacked students with unprecedented brutality. The students were pummelled, charged, choked and blinded by gas. Hundreds were wounded.
The young workers, high-school pupils, and university students of France are rising up in indignation and anger.
The Communist Youth Movement of France and its student organisation, the U.E.C.F., ACCUSES THE GAULLIST GOVERNMENT OF TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE DRAMATIC EVENTS.
They reveal the extent to which this government is the defender of the bourgeois order, the capitalist system, bankers and big bosses.
THIS REGIME IS THE ENEMY OF THE YOUTH AND OF STUDENTS.
In protest against the brutality of the Gaullist police, we will defend our rights, and develop anti-capitalist action.
To meet the demands of the youth and students, our country has to be rid of this evil regime.
Students, pupils, young workers, let us unite and act together with the working class for the establishment of a popular government that will be realised with and for youth.
The Communist Youth Committee of the XIIth Arrondissement calls on students, pupils, and young workers to
a massive participation in strikes, demonstrations, rallies over the coming hours: in the protests of all our people against police repression.
ALL OF THE YOUTH ARE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE MASS OF STUDENTS AND HIGH-SCHOOL PUPILS.
The Latin Quarter for students and teachers !
Reopening of all the faculties !
Immediate amnesty for all the imprisoned !
——
EVERYONE TO THE
PROTEST:
Monday 13th May 1968
With the participation of:
– CGT
– CFDT
– FEN
– FO
– SNESup
– SNES
– UNEF
Supported by the French Communist Party
and the Federation of the Left.
Union of French Communist Youth.
20 Saturday Aug 2016
Posted in JCR, May 6-12 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
(Translation – Fisera 30)
In the Face of Repression
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS , HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS , WORKERS
WE MUST ; BREAK THE SILENCE
BREAK THE ISOLATION
CREATE A UNITED RESISTANCE FRONT
– By extending the battle front to all the workers
– By extending our battle to the whole nation,
– By the international co-ordination of youth movements
YOUNG PEOPLE , FROM REVOLT TO REVOLUTION
WE MUST ORGANISE OURSELVES
EVERYONE TO THE INTERNATIONAL RALLY
With the participation of:
The leaders of the S.D.S. of BERLIN
The leaders of the S.D.E.E. MADRID
The representatives of S.N.C.C. BLACK POWER
PAOLO FLORES from ARCAIS ROME
MASSIMO GORLA ITALY
ERNEST MANDEL BELGIUM
THE LEADERS OF THE J.C.R.
At the Mutualité – Thursday 9 May, 8.30p.m.
REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST YOUTH PO Box AGJ 39-16. Paris
20 Saturday Aug 2016
Posted in May 13-19 1968, Tract, UJC(ml), Uncategorized
(Translation – Fisera 45)
DOWN WITH THE
ANTI-POPULAR
GAULLIST REGIME
Police repression has been unleashed upon the students during the past few days: the students have responded courageously with force. The workers themselves have known this repression for a long time. Every day it is a struggle against increasingly difficult working conditions. To repress this struggle the bosses call upon the bourgeois state, their faithful servant; these are the methods of fascist repression used by the CRS at Redon, at Caen, at La Rhodia in Lyon, etc. Redon, Caen, La Rhodia are serious blows struck at big capital and the Gaullist régime by the workers and the poor peasants. The workers know that it is their blows which are always the most forceful, always the most determined, which will bring down the regime that is oppressing the people.
The students have also dealt blows against this repressive regime. But the socialist “politicians”, the new left-wing careerists, are taking full advantage of the confusions and inconsistencies of what is a petty-bourgeois movement. They are doing all they can to corrupt the student struggle, to enlist it under their banner: they wish to use the student movement to snatch the reins of the struggle from the proletariat. How? By calling on the workers to support the petty-bourgeois demands of Daddy’s boys in the university. But the contrary is true. The progressive students ought to put themselves at the service of the workers and peoples struggle against unemployment and poverty, for freedom. The opportunist leaders of the PCF and the CGT first of all attacked the students fight in an un-worthy manner. Then, faced with the development of the situation, they changed their tack and asked for support for the social-democratic manoeuvres, for complete support of the strike on the basis of petty-bourgeois slogans, the manoeuvres and capitulation of opportunist leaders will not be able to withstand the mounting tide of the workers revolt. The workers are seizing the banner of the struggle against Gaullist. In the CGT they are going to overthrow the reformist bureaucrats, they are building the proletarian party in mass struggles against unemployment and capitalist poverty. Progressive students are doing to serve the People.
LET US BREAK
THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC
COUNTER-CURRENT
20 Saturday Aug 2016
Posted in FER, May 6-12 1968, Students, Tract, Uncategorized
FER —— REVOLTES —— FER
The nation bureau of the revolutionary federation of students declares:
the fight continues!
The government dreads the students combining with the working class.
Last Monday it savagely beat the students, BUT THEY FOUGHT BACK.
On Tuesday it couldn’t prevent 50,000 workers and students from holding the street for 6 hours, until the government made the Latin Quarter prohibited. The fight is paying off, but nothing has been won.
THE U.N.E.F. HAS ASKED THE CONFEDERATIONS TO ORGANISE A GENERAL PROTEST.
we’ll fight
workers, students
together!
STUDENTS, WORKERS,
To triumph, it’s necessary to set up a way to organise democratic decisions on action against the machinery of the centralised state.
The workers and students must hold assemblies and form their strike committees in every faculty and enterprise, with representatives that are elected and subject to recall at any time, forming a NATIONAL STRIKE COMMITTEE AND PREPARING PROTESTS TOGETHER WITH THE WORKERS.
THE U.N.E.F. MUST CALL FOR ALL WORKERS AND THEIR ORGANISATIONS to
PROTEST Saturday 11 May
AT 3PM, DENFERT ROCHEREAU.
FOR — the freeing of our imprisoned comrades
— the removal of the police
— the reopening of the faculties
— the abolition of the Selection Commissions
take part in the THE RALLY of the FER
Friday 10 May, 8:30pm
At the Mutualité
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