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Tract – “Down with Anti-Popular Gaullist Regime of Unemployment and Poverty” (19 May 1968 – UJC(m-l))

22 Monday Aug 2016

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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  

Tract – “Down with the Anti-Popular Gaullist Regime” (13 May 1968 – UJC(m-l))

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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(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

Tract – “A Comrade is Dead” (11 June 1968 – CGT/Mouvement de Soutien aux Luttes du Peuple/UJC (m-l)/Servir le Peuple)

11 Saturday Jun 2016

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A comrade is dead. A young high-school student: Gilles Tautin, who was at the Lycée Mallarmé. A member of the Movement for the Support of the People’s Struggle. A member of the Union of Young Communists (marxist-leninist). He died at FLINS.

 He drowned, having been beaten by the police. Other comrades have still not returned. All day hundreds of young people were chased, hunted down and arrested. And was proletarian FLINS killed, or not? We will find out. Hundreds of proletarians injured. Gilles is our witness.

* Who killed our comrade? : The cops, the Gaullist dictatorship. This government of assassins loathes the People. Built on the power of exploiters, this government is despised by workers, farmers, intellectuals and the whole working population. Our People have risen up against this government. The strength of the millions of proletarians making themselves masters of the factories has rattled the exploiters: the capitalists are trembling. Today their government wants to make the People pay, make them forget that they are an invincible force. It wants to divide them, to repress them. It will not able to.

 The Gaullist government hoped that everyone would return to “order”. Didn’t it promise legislative elections? Yes, elections in order that work resumes. So that work resumes before THE SATISFACTION OF THE WORKERS’ DEMANDS. Elections so that workers return to their factories under pressure from the scabs, the cops, and the CDR. Elections in order to defeat the People. And when workers resist as at CITROEN and RENAULT, the government of assassins sends in its CRS.

 But like all reactionaries, the Gaullist government underestimates the strength of the People: the working class resists, the youth and the population maintain the bastions of proletarian resistance. At FLINS workers, students, and the whole population are united, united in the success of the same cause: the cause of the People.

* Who has assisted the government in the task of division and repression? : Anti-worker and anti-popular politicians. The vast mass of the country has seen them at work. The leaders of FO, kissing the arses of ministers. The leaders of the CFDT, who signed all the capitulating agreements and who, while the working class was fighting for satisfaction of all of its demands and for a popular government, found a way to introduce THEIR candidate, the retired anticommunist politician MENDES-FRANCE. Finally the NATIONAL BUREAU of the CGT, and the political gang of the PCF.

 The stance of the confederated leadership of the CGT was DISGUSTING. It called for the return to work through sham secret ballots. It sabotaged the self-defence of the factories. It opened the gates of FLINS to the CRS. IT HAS DISARMED THE WORKING CLASS SO THAT THE ELECTIONS CAN TAKE PLACE. AND IT HAS ARMED THE ASSASSINS: at FLINS.

What did the Confederal Bureau of the CGT AND HUMANITE say on June 7 1968?:

  • “The government has omitted to name the real troublemakers and provocateurs whose machinations, including those against the return to work, are covered by a singular deference by the State”.
  • The government has responded to this call: it killed our comrade.

 Our comrade is dead. It is the Gaullist government and ITS ACCOMPLICES IN THE NATIONAL BUREAU of the CGT and in the LEADERSHIP of the PCF who are responsible for his murder. Our comrade died for the SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE. For the Unity of the Youth Movement and the Workers’ Movement. He went to FLINS to put himself under the authority of the workers and proletarian unionists of the CGT. Because he belonged to a political organisation that springs from the working masses. An organisation which is proud to count defenders of the proletarian CGT among its members. He was a young militant who defended the cause of the workers and of the great CGT, permanently linked: the class struggle. He did not confuse the traitors of the national leadership with the hundreds of thousands of CGT militants who are ardent defenders of the workers’ cause. It must be made known FOR WHAT and FOR WHO he died: FOR THE WORKING CLASS, FOR THE CGT of CLASS STRUGGLE, FOR THE PARTY of REVOLUTIONARY PROLETARIANS, which he helped to build, FOR THE PEOPLE. He had etched in his mind the direction of the great guide of world Revolution, comrade Mao Tse-tung: SERVE THE PEOPLE.

COMRADE, from now on your name is inseparable from the peoples revolution, from the springtime of our people!

We pledge to follow the path that you have marked out with your blood. The blood of proletarians, the blood of our high-school comrade and of those who have died WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLE, is THE BLOOD of MARTYRS for us all. Martyrs of the PEOPLE’S REVOLUTION. It arouses our hatred, which is immense, to meet the amount of suffering inflicted on the People by its exploiters.       

  Comrades, around the red flag of proletarian resistance, of the 
  People’s Revolution, of communism: UNITED UNTIL VICTORY!

Proletarian unionists of the CGT
Movement of the Support of the People’s Struggle
Union of Young Communists (marxist-leninist) and Organisations of SERVE THE PEOPLE

 

Tract – “AND NOW TO THE FACTORIES!” (7th May 1968 – UJC(ml) & ‘Servir le Peuple’)

21 Sunday Sep 2014

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(Translated in Schnapp Document 40)

AND NOW
TO THE FACTORIES!

Call to action by the UJC(m-l) and “Serve the People” Clubs

Anger is rumbling among the masses. A million out of work. Starvation wages. Fascist repression at Dassault Citroën, Simca, and in many other plants. The CRS against workers’ and peasants’ demonstrations in Le Mans, Radon, and Caen.

For several months now, popular revolts have been breaking out against the employers and Gaullism.

Everywhere the reformist party machines, the revisionist leadership of the PCF, and the bureaucratic leadership of the CGT have striven to break the mass movement in Rhodiaceta, at Schwartz-Hautmont, Aluvac, the ceramic factories of Alès, and in many other places. But more and more the CGT and the PCF organizers have been checkmated and unmasked by the mass movement. More and more the masses are becoming conscious of these maneuvers which aim at crushing the class struggle in the factories in order to canalize action in favor of reformist objectives and, above all, of parliamentary debates.

On the occasion of student demonstrations, with violent police repression, popular pressure made itself felt: on Monday and especially Tuesday, workers and young laborers came to demonstrate in the steets with the students. This worker participation reflects the deep-seated anger that exists among the broad masses of the working class against Gaullism, which is a regime of unemployment and misery, and against revisionism, which is a reactionary trick for demobilizing
the masses.

The masses want to fight against Gaullism.

On the question of street demonstrations, their slogans, and their itineraries: from now on we must take up the fight against the obstacles erected by the reformlsts, we must help the masses to overcome these and to clear a way towards the revolutionary class struggle.

Three reactionary forces have leagued together in order to repress and check the revolutionary mass movement.

Gaullism has repeatedly hurled its aggressive troops against the populace, the students, and the workers.

The social democrats (PSU, SFIO, Trotskyites, and the executive commlttee of the UNEF) were quick to try to turn the student movement to account. Their goals are to keep the students isolated from the working class and limit the movement to reformist objectives: “structural reforms for the University, openings for young cadres, etc. These objectives are reflected in the reactionary political line followed these past days by the UNEF officers: at all costs keep the students in the Latin Quarter, limit slogans to absurd student demands, incapable of uniting students with the broad masses of workers and peasants.

The revisionists of the PCF and of the CGT leadership began by brutally attacking the student movement, revealing their true counter-revolutionary nature. The anger of the masses exploded against these traitors, who are police accomplices. Frightened, they have retreated a bit and rallied to the operation of their social democratic friends to limit the movement’s objectives to the three points laid down by the UNEF officers. That is, the revisionists pretend that the workers are demonstrating for academic freedoms.

This is not true: the workers are demonstrating because they want to fight against Gaullism, a regime of unemployment and misery, because they want to make an end to repression. One flag only can unite the broad masses of workers, poor peasants, and students:

The overthrow of Gaullism.
The conquest of freedom for the broad masses of the people.
Control over the exploiters

Let us sweep away the reformist slogans, which are purely academic, as well as the small revisionist and social democratic groups who are working together in an attempt to prevent us from having access to the masses of the people and to the revolution!

We must leave the bourgeois neighborhoods, which are not our concern. We must go to the factories and to the working class neighborhoods to join with the workers.

DOWN WITH GAULLISM

FREEDOM FOR THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE!

UJC (m-l) , Cercles “Servir le Peuple” Tuesday, May 7, 1968.