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Poster – “Comrades Workers!” (11 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

10 Sunday Jun 2018

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“Comrades Workers!

Against management and police Provocations
Against defeatism and capitulation
For the satisfaction of every demand

Let’s join our battlestation against Capital
The Occupied Factory!

Let’s organise our self-defence!
We will win!”

(June 11 – Atelier Populaire)

Maroon screen-print on poster paper

56 x 90cm

Documented in:
Wlassikoff p35; Beaubourg #176, Beauty #61; Gasquet p197; Murs #110; UUU p26; Dobson #172

Online Resources:
BNF
BNF
ENSBA #10551

Poster – “Renault Flins – New Phase” (8 June 1968 -Atelier Populaire)

07 Thursday Jun 2018

Posted by biffbang in Atelier Populaire, Flins, June 3-9 1968, Poster, Renault, Workers

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“Renault Flins – New Phase

Friday, Flins 5000 CRS seal off the factory

5am – Faced with the cops 9000 workers join together to continue the strike

10am – The cops attack the gathered workers with a grenade assault

* THE CRS ARE THE ONLY PROVOCATEURS *

The State and the radio claim that it is the students who are fighting

Until 10am the next day the workers organise and direct the counterattack

* FOR THE ENTIRE STRIKE MOVEMENT *

Sectors take up the strike again in solidarity the first being the Postal sorters

SOLIDARITY WITH FLINS

LET’S MOBILISE OURSELVES ON SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AND MONDAY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE REINFORCEMENT OF THE STRIKE MOVEMENT”

(8 June 1968 -Atelier Populaire)

Red screen-print on newspaper

65 x 99.5cm

Documented in:
Wlassikoff p39; Beaubourg #141, Beauty #46; Gasquet p.70; Murs #123; UUU p61; Dobson #97; Artcurial #371b

Online Resources:
ENSBA #10550

Tract – “CRS Comrades” (undated)

28 Monday May 2018

Posted by biffbang in Police, Students, Tract, Workers

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C.R.S. COMRADES

You do unpopular work, that’s OK; and we imagine that you don’t always do it willingly.

But currently, not only are you doing a revolting job, but a stupid one; because the government that you are defending is condemned by the whole of France.

BECOME OUR BROTHERS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ARBITRARINESS AND INSTITUTIONALISED STUPIDITY

WORKERS AND STUDENTS LIASON COMMITTEE

C.L.E.O

Poster – “(French & Immigrant) Workers All United – Equal Pay for Equal Work” (22 May 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

22 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by biffbang in Atelier Populaire, May 20-26 1968, Poster, Workers

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“(French & Immigrant) Workers All United – Equal Pay for Equal Work”

(22 May 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

Brown screenprint on newspaper

71 x 85cm

Documented in:
Mesa p32; Dobson #154; UUU p29; Peters #62; Beaubourg #128; Camard #94b; Wlassikoff p62, Beauty #66; Gasquet p161; Murs #106; Chartres #7

Online References:
BNF
ENSBA #10813

Tract – “Betrayal!” (Early May 1968)

10 Thursday May 2018

Posted by biffbang in May 6-12 1968, Students, Tract, Workers

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TO EVERYONE – TO EVERYONE – TO EVERYONE – TO EVERYONE – TO EVERYONE

BETRAYAL!

Monday 6 May: In the face of savage police repression students and young workers spontaneously respond to the violence of the State which only very narrowly avoids the retaking of the Sorbonne.

Tuesday 7 May: There is a new demonstration with the appearance of security personnel from various bureaucracies. After having forcefully shown the size of our movement on the Champs-Elysées, we end up facing the Latin Quarter as a result of the tactical carelessness of the security detail, who split us up under the pretext of efficiency.

Wednesday 8 May: A security detail is imposed to control this third demonstration. We vow to march on the Sorbonne. Confident, the demonstrators trust the directives of the security detail who planned and organised our defeat by calling for a shameful dispersion when faced by the cops.

The bureaucrats once again showed their true face as the sanitisers of the struggle. We clarify that this was essentially done by the members of FER (Révoltes). These facts demonstrate that every bureaucracy, no matter how revolutionary, quickly becomes reactionary compared with the struggle of the rank and file.

COMRADES!

Under the threat of being endlessly swindled, and having our struggle corrupted and diverted by the bourgeoise and its reformist allies, we must no longer blindly follow the directives of a leadership, whatever it be.

Let’s organise ourselves, for direct action, ridding ourselves of the whiners and defeatists.

EVERYONE UNITE IN DIRECT ACTION!

A group of workers and students of May 6

Poster – “Cops at Flins – Cops at Your House”

09 Wednesday Nov 2016

Posted by biffbang in Atelier Populaire, Flins, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers

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“Cops at Flins – Cops at Your House”
(Mid-June – Atelier Populaire)

Red screen-print on poster paper

38 x 56 cm

Documented in:
Camard #68b; Les Affiches #55; Beauty #234; Imagination #30; Gasquet p70; Artcurial #406; Beaubourg #12; Murs #123

Online Resources:
BNF
ENSBA #10708 #10736

Poster – “Vote Communiste” (mid-June 1968 – PCF)

20 Monday Jun 2016

Posted by biffbang in Elections, PCF, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers

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FROM THE FIRST ROUND

T0 guarantee the benefits gained by the united struggle of workers

VOTE COMMUNISTE

Poster – “The State is calm” (16 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

16 Thursday Jun 2016

Posted by biffbang in Atelier Populaire, Elections, June 10-16 1968, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers

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THE STATE IS CALM
it has built its electoral machine
LET’S FIGHT
on our 
battlefield
THE OCCUPATION 
OF THE FACTORIES

(16 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

Blue screen-print (Atelier Populaire stamp)

47.5 x 76 cm

Documented in:
Gasquet p. 192 ; Camard #88b ; Mesa p110, UUU p79, Dobson #185 ; Beaubourg #121  ; Murs #177 ; Chartres #79  ; Beauty #69; Artcurial #413 

Online Resources:
BNF
ENSBA # 10770
Zurich – 64-0740

Poster – “The Metal Workers will hold firm for the struggle of all Workers” (12 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

12 Sunday Jun 2016

Posted by biffbang in Atelier Populaire, June 10-16 1968, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers

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“The Metal Workers will hold firm for the struggle of all Workers” 

(12 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

Blue screen-print on semi-gloss paper (Atelier Populaire stamp – no border)

42 x 62.5 cm

Documented in:
Gasquet p. 79  Camard # 73b ; Wlassikoff p. 115 ; Dobson #108 ; UUU p. 46 ; Les Affiches #93; Peters #142 ; Beauty #89 ; Mesa p106 ; Murs #125 ; Chartres #62 ; Artcurial #369 

Online Resources:
ENSBA # 10689
BNF
Zurich – 64-0667

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

Posted by biffbang in CGT, June 10-16 1968, Mouvement de Soutien aux Luttes du Peuple, Servir le Peuple, UJC(ml), Uncategorized, Workers

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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

 

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