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Tract – “Call to High-School Students (10 May 1968 – Comité d’action Lyceen)

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CALL TO HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS

 Since Friday police repression has rained down on university and high-school students. The cops beat, arrest, and imprison.

 Why this violence?

 Because the Government no longer has any other way to suppress the legitimate anger of students protesting against the selection process and claiming freedom of expression in the University.

 Since Friday university, high-school students, and young workers have protested against this repression and demand:
 — THE OPENING OF ALL THE FACULTIES
 — THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE POLICE FROM THE LATIN QUARTER
 — THE RELEASE OF THE JAILED
 — THE LIFTING OF UNIVERSITY SANCTIONS

 In many high schools in Paris and the suburbs the pupils are organising strikes and rallies. This isn’t merely in solidarity with the struggle of the university students, but also because they are aware that these questions directly affect them – it’s their future that’s at stake.

   STUDENTS OF HECTOR BERLIOZ MOBILISE YOURSELVES
   JOIN THE HIGH-SCHOOL ACTION COMMITTEE

Meet at Café “Le Donjon” (metro Château de Vincennes) at 5:45pm
      FRIDAY May 10

Tract – “Communique of the National Bureau of the FER” (10 May 1968 – FER)

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REVOLTES FER
COMMUNIQUE OF THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF THE F.E.R

 the fight continues

THE GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE IN

 The unity of university students, school students, young workers and the working class in the struggle is the weapon of victory.

 Unity in this battle is brought to fruition in : 

the common protest of the unef and of all the workers’ confederations

 The FER reaffirms the need to hold a major protest at 3pm on SATURDAY 11 MAY in the cause of this fight.

 THE CARRYING OUT OF THIS PROTEST RELIES ON THE ORGANISATION AND GENERAL CO-ORDINATION OF THE STRIKE whose instrument is :
the national strike committee that
the unef
must encourage and establish in order to co-ordinate the action of the
STRIKE COMMITTEES IN PARIS AND
     THE PROVINCES 

EVERYONE to THE RALLY of the
FER at 8:30 tonight at
Mutualité

Patrick LEU J.L. ARGENTIN
Charles BERG
under the chairmanship of CHRISTIAN DE BRESSON

Tract – “Appeal” (30 May 1968 – Cimade)

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APPEAL

Cimade once again renews its appeal to help those that the current events have placed in a very difficult situation, in particular foreign workers and students.

Cimade invites everyone to join in with the current efforts towards aid and solidarity.

You can bring your donations of money (cash, postal orders or bank checks) to Cimade.

You can bring your in-kind or cash donations to one of the depots organised by Cimade and shown on the attached sheet.

For further information or offers of service please call Cimade: 705 93-99

Cimade

Paris, May 30, 1968

Tract – “Call of the Communist Youth Movement” (12 May 1968 – JCF)

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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.

Tract – “In the Face of Repression” (9 May 1968 – JCR)

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(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

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

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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 – “The Combat Continues” (10 May 1968 – FER)

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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 

Tract – “Combat Gas!” (13 May 1968 – Comités d’Action du 3 Mai)

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Mbat

(Translation – Schnapp 52)

COMBAT GAS!

MATERIAL USED BY THE C.R.S. FOR REPRESSION OF DEMONSTRATORS

 – Offensive hand grenades (a powerful blast).
 – Incendiary grenades (which burn skin and eyes)
 – Combat gas C.N. and C.B. (based on chlorine and bromide compounds already currently used by Americans in Vietnam; they cause asphyxia and death).
 – Disabling gas.

 These devices have been used this week in the Latin Quarter for attacks in cafés, in the subway, buses, stores, and apartment houses.

NOW IT IS CLEAR!

 We are the guinea pigs for the experiments of a sadistic police who already has Charonne and the tortures in Algeria to its credit.

 Thousands of youth who came to demonstrate have been harried, tracked down, bestially beaten.

 We know that already there have been:
 – injured who were blackjacked on stretchers
 – members of the Red Cross (Hôpital Curie) systematically harried wherever they went
 – doctors beaten (rue Gay-Lussac)
 – people weak from loss of blood in police stations (Panthéon)
 – injured to whom the police refused medical care for more than twenty-four hours
 – torn limbs requiring amputation
 – people in a coma
 – serious eye lesions
 – a student whose throat was slit by a cop on a windowpane (24 rue Gay-Lussac)
 – probable dead

 All these facts have been carefully suppressed by the government and the press. They have tried to impose silence in the name of medical secrecy by fabricating false medical reports.

 The strike of medical students, the protests of professors, the UNEF press conference on the means of repression used by the police, that of the doctors from Saint-Antoine Hospital, the spontaneous testimony of 50 doctors who had offered medical aid, prove that the medical profession will not allow itself to be muzzled by police repression.                                           

—–

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 is not possible to discuss with
assassins and liars
WE ARE CONTINUING STREET ACTION AND OCCUPATION OF THE FACULTIES, UNTIL 
GRIMAUD 
    AND 
FOUCHÉ
RESIGN!

Monday, 2:00 AM
The May 3 Action Committees

Tract – “The organisations of the U.N.E.F, U.G.E, the S.N.E.Sup, the C.G.T, the C.F.D.T and the F.E.N. make the following call :” (12 May 1968 – UNEF, SNESup, CGT, CFDT, FEN)

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(Translation – Fisera 46 – May 12, UNEF, UGE, SNESup, CGT, CFDT, FEN)

The organisations of the U.N.E.F
U.G.E, the S.N.E.Sup, the C.G.T
the C.F.D.T and the F.E.N.
make the following call :

 Public opinion has been shattered by the ferocious police repression which has been unleashed against the students and academics in the Latin Quarter.

 The repression has provoked spirited indignation against the regime.

 The union organisations C.F.D.T., C.G.T., F.E.N., C.G.T.-F.O. and C.G.C. have declared a general 24 hour strike for Monday, 13 May. the U.N.E.F.-U.G.E. and S.N.E. Sup. are carrying on with their strike.

 It is the determined action of the students and teachers in higher education, followed by the call for a general stake and the emotion expressed by a large part of public opinion as well as the attitudes of numerous political parties and movements that have forced the government to stand down.

 In the name of the solidarity which joins together the students. teachers and all the workers against police repression, let us unite.

– For an amnesty for convicted demonstrators and for the revocation of all legal, administrative and academic trials,
– For trade-union and political freedoms,
– And for the success of their common aspirations:
– A democratic reform of education serving the workers,
– Full employment,
– A change in the economic system by and for the people.

—–

 The trade-union organisations of the Paris region, U.N.E.F., U.G.E., S.N.E. Sup., F.E.N., C.F.D.T. and C.G.T., call on the students, teachers, workers and all the population to demonstrate en masse.

 Monday afternoon, 13 May
from Place de la République 
to Place Denfert-Rochereau. 

 The demonstration is set to leave at 3.30p.m.

 The C.G.T.-F.O. of the Paris region has also put out an appeal for this demonstration.

 On the route of the demonstration collections will be made by the organisations, on behalf of the victims of the repression.

 Welcoming the calls from parties and groups to participate in the demonstration, the organisers have decided to maintain the trade-unionist character of the demonstration. 

 In the same spirit, the only papers which will be distributed will be those of the organisations who have signed the appeal.

Paris, May 12 1968 – 7:30 p.m.

The URP CGT and CFDT call on the workers of the
Paris Region to assemble from 2:30 p.m.
In the Avenue de la République
at the top of Rue 
Jean-Pierre Timbaud

Tract – “For the Creation of the Revolutionary Youth Organisation” (6 May 1968 – FER)

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(Translation – Fisera 23)

FOR THE CREATION OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH ORGANISATION

MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS

YOUNG PEOPLE – SCHOOL STUDENTS – APPRENTICES

– STUDENTS –

    For the first time since 1940 a vice-chancellor has dared to call the police into the university!

    Only the Gestapo and Pétain, in their time, closed down the Sorbonne.
 MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, YOUNG PEOPLE, SCHOOL STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, APPRENTICES,
    the freedom of the university is an integral part of democratic freedom and workers’ freedom. 

 THEY ARE LYING TO YOU , when they tell you students want to defend their privileges. 

OUR FREEDOM ARE ALSO YOURS

    If the bourgeoisie wipe out our freedoms, they are also wiping out yours.

 WHY ARE STUDENTS FIGHTING? 

    The Ministry and the Government want to expel from the university 2/3 of the students whom the Gaullist vice-chancellor has described as “scum”. 

 MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, YOUNG PEOPLE, SCHOOL STUDENTS, STUDENTS APPRENTICES,
 THE FER SAYS: 

    In order to ensure the survival of the profit régime, the bourgeoisie and the state have established a whoIe series of structures aiming to impose unemployment and dismissals, the end of Social Security and pension schemes, to destroy workers’ organisations and freedoms.                       

 FOR CAPITAL AND ITS STATE
    – There are too many workers in the factories,
    – There are too many office employees, 
    – There are too many peasants,
    – There are too many schoolchildren in the schools, too many apprentices in the technical colleges, too many students in the universities!

—–

The students say NO! 

    to selection, to repression, as the CAEN workers said no on 26 January, whilst fighting against unemployment and sackings.

  This is why at Nanterre, at Halle-aux-Vins, at Censier and at the Sorbonne, gardes mobiles, guards helmeted, with shields, clubs, rifles, and tear-gas grenades, savagely attacked male and female workers who were demonstrating FOR FREEDOM, FOR THE RIGHT TO STUDY, FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE.  

 MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, YOUNG PEOPLE, SCHOOL STUDENTS, STUDENTS APPRENTICES,
THE STUDENTS FIGHT IS YOURS TOO

 In solidarity, students, lecturers, pupils’ parents, young people, ALL ORGANISATIONS UNITED

  CAN MAKE THE GOVERNMENT STAND DOWN 

 We, the revolutionary students of the Federation of Revolutionary Students, have proposed the following objective to our trade-union organisation, UNEF: 

  A GENERAL STRIKE OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, for the respect of freedoms, against sanctions, against police despotism in the university.

We, the revolutionary students of the FER, stand
– against the expulsion of students from the university                    
– for the right to study
– against unemployment
– for the defence of university, democratic and workers’ freedoms.

WE ASK ALL MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS to impose on their managers:

A CENTRAL DEMONSTRATION OF WORKERS, YOUNG PEOPLE AND STUDENTS

MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, it depends on us, and we shall accept our responsibilities, it depends on you, and you will accept your responsibilities so that resolutely, in a united battle, our legitimate demands will be satisfied.

THE DESTINY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IS TO BE DECIDED.
THE DESTINY OF YOUR CHILDREN IS TO BE DECIDED.
YOUR FUTURE IS TO BE DECIDED.

EVERYBODY TO THE RALLY OF THE F.E.R., FRIDAY MAY 10, at 8:30 p.m. ,


        At the Mutualité.