SITUATIONISTS AND THE 1£CH MAY 1968

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Documents Communique Comrades, Considering that the Sud-Aviation factory at Nantes has been occupied' for two days by the workers and students of that ity, and thattoday the movement is spreading to several factories (Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne ·in Paris, Renault in Cleon, etc), THE SORBONNE OCCUPATION COMMITTEE calls for the immedi' ate occupation of all the factories in France and the formation of Workers Councils. Comrades, spread and reproduce this · appeal as quickly as possible. Sorbonne, 26 May 1968, J.JO pm Slogans to be spread now by every .means (Leaflets, announcements over microphones, comic strips, songs, graffiti, balloons on paintings in the Sorbonne, announcements in theatres during films or while disrupting them, balloons on subway billboards, before making love, after making love, in elevators, each time you raise your glass in a bar): OCCUPY THE FACTORIES POWER TO TH E WORKERS COUNCILS ABOLISH CLASS SOCIETY DOWN WITH THE SPECTACLE-COMMODITY SOCIETY ABOLISH ALIENATION ABOLISH THE UNIVERSITY . HUMANITY WON'T B HAPPY TILL THE LAST BUREAUCRAT IS HUNG WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST CAPITALIST DEATH TO THE COPS FREE ALSO THE 4 GUYS CONVICTED FOR LOOT- ING DURING THE 6 MAY RIOT Occupation Committee of the Autonomous and Popular Sorbonne University, 26 May 1968, 7 .oo pm Minimum definition of revolutionary organisations · . Since the only purpose of a revolutionary organisation is the abolition 'of all existing classes.in a . way that does not bring about a new division of society, we consider any organisation revolutionary which consistent/yand effectively works toward the internatfonal ,realisation of the absolute power of the workers co . uncils, as prefigured in the experienc.e of the proletarian revo- · · · lutions of this century, Such an organisation makes a unitary cri' · tique of the world, !>r is nothing. By unitary critique we mean a comprehensive critique of all geographical areas where VJrious forms of separate socioeconomic powers exist, as well as a comprehensive critique of all aspects of life. · Such an · organisation sees the beginning and end of its program in the complete decolohisation of everyday life .. it thus aims not at the mases' self-management of the existing world, · but at its UJ1interrupted transformation. it embodies the radical critique of political economy, the supersession of the commodity and of wage labour. Such an
activity. The organisation radically criticises every ideology as separate power of ideas and as ideas of separate power. lt is thus at the same time the negation of any remnants of religion, and of the prevailing social spectacle which, from news media to mass culture, monopolizes communication between people around their unilateral reception of images·of their alienated activity. The organisation dissolves any 'revolutionary ideology' unmasking it as a sign of the failure of the revolutionary project, as the private property of new specialists of power, as one more fraudulent representation setting itself above real proletarianised life. Since the ultimate criterion of the modern revolutionary organisation is its totalness, such an organisation is ultimately a critique of politics. lt must explicitly aim to dissolve itself as a separate organisation at its moment of victory. Adopted by the 7th Conference of the 51, July 1966 A gu't of wind through the Japanese apple tree Ladies and Gentlemen, Henri Lefebvre, one of the most well-known agents of recuperation of this half of the century (it's well-known how the situationists well and truly put him and the whole Arguments gang in their place in their pamphlet Into the Dustbin of History!) proposes to add the Zengakuren to his trophies. The CNRS has its emissaries, PRAXIS has its researchers. The metaphilosopher Lefebvre is less stupid than the pataphilosopher Morin. But the metastalinist ought to have the good grace to shut up when it's a matter of class struggle. A word to the wise is enough. The Enrages, Nanterre, March 19, 968 Gut rage! Comrades, In spite of the proven collusion between UEC Stalinists and reactionaries, last Friday's marvellous riots show that students, in struggle, are starting to gain a consciousness that they didn't have before: and where violence begins, reformism ends. The University Council which met this morning will have its work cut out: this obsolete form of repression can do nothing to counter the violence in the streets. The banning for Five years of our comrade Gerard Bigorgne from all the universities of France - quietly ignored by the whole of the press, the political groups, and students' associations - and which now menaces our comrade Rene Riesel and six other Nanterre students, is at the same time a way for the university authorities to hand them over to the police. Faced with repression, the struggle which has begun must retain its method of violent action, which for the time being is its only streugth. But above all it must instigate a consciousness amongst students who will lead the - movement forward. Because there aren't only the cops: there are also the lies of the various political tendencies - Trotskyists OCR, FER, VO), Maoists (UJCML, CP rank and file), and anarchists-a-la-Cohn Bendit. Let's settle our business ourselves! The example shown by the comrades arrested at the Sorbonne on Friday, who escaped from the van they'd been taken to, is an example to follow. When there are only three cops in a police van, we'll know what to do. The case of Sergeant Brunet, done over yesterday, will set a precedent: death to the pigs! Already violence has shut the mouths of the petty bosses of the political groups; to challenge the bourgeois university alone is trivial when it's the whole of this sociey which is to be destroyed. LONG LIVE THE ZENGAKUREN! LONG LIVE. TH E VANDALIST COMMITTEE OF PUB LIC SAFETY (Bordeaux)! LONG LIVE THE ENRAGES! LONG LIVE THE S.l.! LONG LIVE THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION! The Enrages, Paris, May 6, 1968
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Foreword This anthology brings toge
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On the poverty of student life Cons
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world of lies, working diligently f
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social form. With autogestion ends
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