“With De Gaulle to assure renewal
A solid majority”
Offset print – 3 colour
39.5 x 60cm
04 Monday Jun 2018
“With De Gaulle to assure renewal
A solid majority”
Offset print – 3 colour
39.5 x 60cm
03 Sunday Jun 2018
Posted de Gaulle, Poster, Strasbourg
in“The End of a Regime”
The text in the pot holding de Gaulle reads: “The blood of the people”
The sign reads: “Estates-General of Autonomous Universities, Strasbourg 8-9-10 June 1968)”
(Early June 1968 – Strasbourg)
Photocopy on paper
25 x 33.5cm
02 Saturday Jun 2018
Posted Atelier Graphique de l'UAS, Poster, Strasbourg
in”If the life of those who give in is no longer than the life of the rebel, it’s better to be a rebel in the name of an idea”
(June? 1968 – Atelier Graphique de l’UAS – Strasbourg)
Photocopy on paper
25 x 33.5cm
01 Friday Jun 2018
Posted May 27-June 2 1968, Tract, UNEF
inSince early May, the most powerful mass movement that France has ever known has continued to grow. By occupying the factories, workers aim to impose their authority in industry as well as on the whole of society. By occupying the faculties, students are demonstrating their determination to radically transform society.
The breadth of the movement has been such that the bourgeoisie became frightened and is now trying to pull itself together by rallying around a government which was breaking down. its game consists in trying to canalize the present movement, with a view to elections in which the employers’ money and election combinations will allow it to save the essentials.
We cannot fall into such a trap. Only real worker authority in the factories and in society can guarantee lasting satisfaction of our demands. Otherwise the rise in prices and employer repression will quickly reduce to nothing the few advantages that have been won. When the mass of workers decided to pursue their action they understood this very well. They will not give in to threats and intimidation; they have already begun to organize to take over production in the factories, and they will continue the fight.
The consultations requested by the UNEF for the last three days, with a view to organizing a broad inter-union demonstration, could not take place. Certain people seem to have no concrete outlook beyond preparing for the elections. This is not our objective, a popular movement of this kind cannot get bogged down in any electoral operation whatsoever. The UNEF is therefore taking the initiative of calling on students, teachers, and workers to come to a large demonstration on Saturday, June 1, and is inviting the union organizations to join in this call.
DOWN WITH GAULLISM!
POWER TO THE WORKERS!
THE FIGHT CONTINUES!
4 PM MEET AT MONTPARNASSE STATION
(Place du 18 juin)
01 Friday Jun 2018
Posted Agence Dumas, May 1-5, Nanterre, Photograph
inTHE STUDENTS OF NANTERRE OCCUPY THEIR UNIVERSITY
In the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, as in many of the university cities throughout the world, the students are in turmoil. The reasons for their agitation are variable, it’s rather a matter of tension related to a certain anxiety over the future. In our photo the extremist students of Nanterre have occupied the great amphitheatre of the Faculty and are demonstrating loudly, singing revolutionary songs.
Photographic print
(early May 1968 – Dumas Agency)
17.5 x 12.5cm
On rear of photo:
31 Thursday May 2018
Posted Grenelle Agreement, May 27-June 2 1968, Students, Tract, UNEF
inThe desire of the students and workers to continue the occupation of their workplaces has unambiguously demonstrated the profound deficiency of the negotiations. Together, at Charlety Stadium, they powerfully showed what their objective was
Ten years of Gaullism
Centuries of exploitation
That’s enough
what the workers and students want is power.
De Gaulle uses the carrot and the stick, we understand the stick well… now. It is the call to civil war, the march towards a potential fascist regime. De Gaulle defends neither the “Republic” nor “democracy”, but his regime, that of the Bourgeoisie.
From now on he will only be able to remain by organising violence.
His carrot is poisoned, the workers know that any increase in wages is only a decoy, inflation will quickly bring their purchasing power back to the level it was before; it is the same with every partial concession a capitalist regime agrees to.
Only a radical change in economic structures can allow the demands of the workers to be met.
In the same way the students know that being satisfied with the rearrangement of the current framework of the University would be useless; it would remain the tool of the bourgeoisie. It’s here that the fight of the students joins with that of the workers: a democratic university is impossible in a capitalist society. The democratic University must be that of all workers at the service of the working class.
THE STRUGGLE MUST BE CONTINUED
Mass demonstrations are needed, but they aren’t enough.
The question of power isn’t resolved by ballots or votes, but by continuing the strike, the occupations, and by organising in our places of work; in other words by taking the responsibility for the life of our faculties, of our factories for ourselves.
NATIONAL STUDENT UNION OF FRANCE
30 May 1968.
30 Wednesday May 2018
Posted CDR, de Gaulle, Gaullist, May 27-June 2 1968, Patrick Ribadeau-Dumas, Photograph
in2 x Photographic prints
(30 May 1968 – Patrick Ribadeau-Dumas)
12.5 x 17.5cm
29 Tuesday May 2018
Photographic print
(29 May 1968 – un-named photographer)
20.5 x 22.5cm
From rear of photograph:
28 Monday May 2018
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
27 Sunday May 2018
Posted Journal, May 27-June 2 1968
in