09 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, Flins, June 3-9 1968, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers
“Flins not Cops”
(June 9 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Red screen-print on newsprint (ENSBA stamp)
52 x 67 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 69 ; Beaubourg #138 ; Wlassikoff p. 106 ; Dobson #49 ; Beauty #56 ; Mesa p88 ; Chartres #71 ; Les Affiches #48
Online References:
ENSBA # 10609
BNF
08 Wednesday Jun 2016
RENAULT-FLINS : IT CONTINUES
ON THURSDAY 5000 CRS IN HALF-TRACKS OCCUPIED THE FLINS FACTORY, BY SATURDAY THERE WERE 10,000!…
DE GAULLE ADMITS:
– the employers have the means to quickly recover the increase in salaries
– the bourgeoisie know that any continuation of the struggle poses the issue of workers’ power.
So those in power profit from the dividing the struggles in order to attempt to crush the whole working class: FLINS was attacked first because it was a isolated factory.
However the workers fought, still fight and have defeated the manoeuvre of the bourgeoisie.
For 15 days the struggle proved that unity is our real strength in the abolition of the ruling class.
THE ISOLATION OF FLINS IS BROKEN
THE STRIKE IS REINFORCED!
To help your comrades to liberate their factory:
LET’S SET UP NEW FRONTS IN THE STRUGGLE WHEREVER WE ARE, IN THE COMPANIES, IN THE DISTRICTS, IN ORDER TO BREAK UP THE STATE,S FORCES: THE CRS CAN’T BE EVERYWHERE!
GATHER TOGETHER AND TOMORROW…
The Action Committees of the Paris region
The Movement to Support the Peoples’ Struggle
Movement of 22 March
(June 68 – Comités d’Action/Mouvement de Soutien aux Luttes du Peuple/Mouvement Du 22 Mars)
Blue offset on semi-gloss paper
46 x 61.5 cm
Documented in:
Chartres #72 ; Artcurial #388 ; Camard #74b ; Les Affiches #58
Online Resources:
BNF
07 Tuesday Jun 2016
Posted in CMDO, Internationale Situationniste, June 3-9 1968, Tract, Uncategorized, Workers
National Council of French Employers
31 rue Pierre 1er de Serbie – Paris 16e
To all Workers:
Ladies,
Gentlemen,
In an agreement with the majority of your unions we have granted you many dozens of hours of extra paid leave along with significant increases in wages.
Therefore, on the eve of the summer holidays, we suggest that you leave for Club Med and no longer concern yourself with “workers’ councils” and “class struggle” .
Would you also please steer clear of occupying the factories.
Yours Sincerely,
Paris, 7 June 1968
For the C.N.P.F., the president
P. HUVELIN
06 Monday Jun 2016
RENAULT LEADS THE WAY
The state decided to make an example out of the workers of Renault, who have been at the forefront of these three weeks of fighting. To do this, it chose the moment when other sectors were returning to work. It chose the Renault corporation’s most isolated factory. THIS PUNITIVE ACT AIMED TO SET AN EXAMPLE. By doing this the state wanted to show that the established order can’t be scorned.
BUT, BY THEIR RESISTANCE, THE WORKERS OF RENAULT FLINS HAVE DEFEATED THE STATE’S CRS
Strengthened by the support of the local people, they revealed the willpower and the determination of the working class in its resolute opposition to employers’ power.
REFUSING TO INCORPORATE THEMSELVES INTO THE EMPLOYERS’ STATE, REFUSING ALL FORMES OF ILLUSORY PARTICIPATION, THEY FIGHT FOR ALL WORKERS. Effectively the benefits snatched by the workers from the bosses will, by De Gaulle’s own admission, be eaten away by inflation owing to rising prices. ONLY CONTROL THROUGH WORKERS’ POWER CAN PRESERVE THESE BENEFITS AGAINST EVERY RECLAMATION OF THE EMPLOYERS.
The struggle of the workers at Flins demonstrates that the phase of social tranquility isrelative and that, tomorrow, the movement can begin again with vigour, strengthened by the experience it has acquired.
LET’S SUPPORT THE BATTLE OF EVERY WORKER ON STRIKE.
LET’S JOIN IN WITH THE STRUGGLE OF THE WORKERS AT FLINS.
THE ACTION COMMITTEES
05 Sunday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, Citroen, June 3-9 1968, Uncategorized, Workers
“At Citroen – the Workers will get rid of the Traitors and Capitulators”
(5-7 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Red screenprint on newsprint
48 x 76 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 60 ; Wlassikoff p.44 ; Artcurial #364 ; Camard #87 ; Mesa p86; Beauborg #148 ; Paves; Peters #100; Murs #122 Chartres #65 ; Dobson #106
Online References:
ENSBA # 10612
BNF
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 153
Zurich – 64-0737
04 Saturday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, ORTF, Police, Poster, Uncategorized
“The Police at the ORTF are Police at your house”
(3 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Blue screen-print on newsprint (no stamp)
46 x 74 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 122 ; Dobson #84 ; UUU p. 80 ; Beaubourg #78 ; Imagination #19 ; Wlassikoff p. 101 ; Camard #169a ; Artcurial #518 ; Les Affiches #213, Beauty #195 ; Mesa p85 ; Murs #105 ; Chartres #32 ; Paris p71
Online References:
ENSBA # 10547
BNF
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 39
03 Friday Jun 2016
THE BOURGEOISIE IS AFRAID!
THE DESPERATE STATE PROVOKES
It gathers all of its cops, its spies, its foremen, and the fascist remnants: the CRS and Gaullist commandos have thrown tear-gas grenades at the picket lines, and many PTT and ORTF facilities have been attacked (both in Paris the provinces).
THE STATE LIES
The entire press throws out false rumours of a return to work, remaining totally silent about the workers resistance.
At the Gare de Lyon, of over 5,000 workers and employees, only 60 scab managers have “returned to work”; the press fantasizes about an imminent return to work at the RATP when all depots have voted with 95% supporting the continuation of the strike.
THE STATE CHEATS
It grants some provisional appeasements to workers and tries to divert their struggle onto parliamentary terrain, where it is always able to cheat the people.
MORE THAN EVER THE WORKERS ORGANISE THEIR RESPONSE
They search out striking workers to reinforce the mass occupation of the factories. They unite the whole working population around themselves: owners of small shops, employees, and intellectuals. They fight for the total satisfaction of all demands, for all workers.
THEY ORGANISE THEIR SELF-DEFENSE BY EVERY MEANS
Already at Rennes the postal workers have been fighting against the CRS for an hour and a half.
Already the strikers break down the age-old divisions between town and country, and between the industries themselves. Already the strikers of the CSF at Brest have put their production at the service of the workers, at the service of struggles against the employers.
Today the decisive battle is carried out in the occupied factories.
LET’S REMAIN UNITED AND RESOLUTE IN SUPPORT OF THE OCCUPIED FACTORIES.
LET’S ORGANISE THE UNITY OF THE POPULAR FORCES IN PRINCIPLE AND IN ACTlON.
FOR THE SELF-DEFENSE OF THE MASSES.
FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE BOURGEOIS STATE.
The workers take up the heroic example of the Paris Commune. They will carry out the struggle until the system of employers and wage-earners is abolished.
ALL POWER TO THE WORKERS.
3 June 1968
Coordination Committee of the Action Committees
Movement of support for the struggles of the people
Movement of March 22
(3 June 1968 – Coordination Committee of the Action Committees)
Offset/screenprint
40 x 56 cm
Documented in:
Mesa p.69; Camard #46; Beauty #160b; Gasquet p.20; Murs #138; Chartres #154; Artcurial #431
Online Resources:
ENSBA #10574
BNF
02 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, June 3-9 1968, Poster, Uncategorized, Workers
“The RATP (Paris Metro) will hold firm”
(3 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Blue & Red litho on semi-gloss paper (ENSBA stamp)
42 x 62.5 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 65 ; Camard #77a ; Imagination #17 ; Wlassikoff p.97 ; Peters #141 ; Les Affiches #65 ; Mesa p70 ; UUU p42 ; Dobson #113 ; Beaubourg #147 ; Beauty #196 ; Paris p103; Artcurial #405
Online Resources:
ENSBA # 10630
BNF
01 Wednesday Jun 2016
Posted by biffbang | Filed under Comité d'Initiative Pour un Mouvement Révolutionnaire, May 27-June 2 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
31 Tuesday May 2016
Posted in Gaullist, May 27-June 2 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
This actually the only example of an “response” tract that I’ve come across – it is a right-wing answer (closely following the same formatting even!) to the union tract posted previously.
WE BELONG TO
THE 75% OF
WORKERS
who wish
TO RETURN TO WORK
AND WE will ALL BE BE PRESENT
ON TUESDAY, JUNE 4 to assert
OUR RIGHTS.
FREEDOM TO WORK
EQUALITY
FRATERNITY
UNION OF ST. ETIENNE
FOR THE DEFENSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS
Documents from May 1968 