SITUATIONISTS AND THE 1£CH MAY 1968

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