SITUATIONISTS AND THE 1£CH MAY 1968
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The castle is burning!<br />
Address to the Council of the University of Paris<br />
Relics of the past,<br />
Your crass ignorance of life gives you no authoriy<br />
to do anything. Do you want proof? If you can sit<br />
today it will only be if you are backed up by a<br />
cordon of police.<br />
In fact nobody respects you any more. So<br />
cry now over your old Sorbonne.<br />
lt just makes me laugh that certain modernising<br />
old farts are getting touchy about<br />
defending me, supposing - wrongly - that after<br />
having spat in their faces, I might once more<br />
become presentable enough for them to protect<br />
me. Despite their perseverance in such<br />
masochism, these opportunists wouldn't even<br />
know how to patch up the Universly. Monsieur<br />
Lefebvre, I say to you, shit.<br />
There will be more and more of those who<br />
take from the education system the best thing it<br />
has: the grants. You've refused this to me, so I've<br />
had nothing to hide. I've got to bite the bullet.<br />
Today's trial is, of course, a ridiculous fairy<br />
tale. The real trial took place on Monday on the<br />
streets, and secular justice has already detained<br />
about thirty riotes. For my comrades, what matters<br />
is the unconditional release of all the prisoners<br />
(as well as the students).<br />
Freedom is the crime which contains all<br />
crimes. Woe betide feudal justice when the castle<br />
is burning!<br />
Rene Riese/, Paris, May 10, <strong>1968</strong><br />
Vigilance!<br />
Comrades,<br />
The supremacy of the revolutionary assembly<br />
can only mean something if it exercises its<br />
power.<br />
For the last 48 hours even the capaciy of the<br />
general assembly to make decisions has been<br />
challenged by a systematic obstruction of all<br />
proposals for action.<br />
Up until now no motion could be voted on or<br />
even discussed, and bodies elected by the general<br />
assembly (Occupation Committee and<br />
Coordinating Committee) see their work sabotaged<br />
by pseudo-spontaneous groups.<br />
All the debates on organisation, which people<br />
wanted to argue about before any action, are<br />
pointless if we do nothing.<br />
AT THIS RATE, TH E MOVEMENT WILL BE<br />
BURIED IN <strong>THE</strong> SORBONNE!<br />
·<br />
The prerequisite of direct democracy is the<br />
minimum support that revolutionary students<br />
can give to revolutionary workers who are occupying<br />
their factories.<br />
it is inexcusable that yesterday evening's<br />
incidents in the GA should pass without retaliation.<br />
The priests are holding us back when anticlerical<br />
posters are torn up.<br />
The bureaucrats are holding us back when,<br />
without even giving their names, they paralyse<br />
the revolutionary awareness that can take the<br />
movement forward from the barricades.<br />
Once again, it's the future that is sacrificed<br />
to the re-establishment of the old unionism.<br />
Parliamentary cretinism wants to take over<br />
the rostrum, as it tries to put the old, patched-up<br />
system back on its feet again.<br />
Comrades, the reform of the university alone<br />
is insignificant, when it is the whole of the old<br />
world which is to be destroyed.<br />
The movement is nothing if it is not revolutionary.<br />
Occupation Committee of the Sorbonne, May 16,<br />
<strong>1968</strong>, 4.3opm.<br />
Watch outl<br />
The Press Committee situated on the second<br />
floor, stair C, in the Gaston Azard library, represents<br />
only itself. lt happens to be a case of a<br />
dozen or so student journalists anxious to prove<br />
themselves straight away to their future employ<br />
'ers and future censors.<br />
This Committee, which is trying to monopolize<br />
all contact with the Press, refuses to transmit<br />
the communiques of the regularly elected<br />
bodies of the general assembly.<br />
TH IS PRESS COMMITTEE IS A CENSORSHIP<br />
COMMITTEE: don't have anything more to do<br />
with it.<br />
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