SITUATIONISTS AND THE 1£CH MAY 1968

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.· ® Afterword There is a tradition of denigrating certain political ideas and actions by describing them as Utopian, unrealistic, naive etc. We have deliberately chosen the ti'tle of this Anthology as we feel it sums up important aspects of the events in May. The importance that graffiti1 posters, pamphlets etc played both in terms of practical communication and inspirational agitation cannot be denied. Some of the slogans may on one level appear Utopian but a closer analysis shows that they partake of the great Surrealist tradition of the imaginative transformation of the world, a transformation firmly rooted in, not an escape from, reality. As And re Breton observed, "The Imaginary is that which tends tci become real." On one level a slogqn on a .Parisian wall referring to the beach appears a contradiction. The beach with its connotation of seaside holidays, fun and leisure scrawled on an urban wall in the capital of France. However, although the quality of our illustrations doesn't allow us to show it too clearly, if you look carefully at photographs of Parisian streets which have had their paving stones/ cobbles torn up what can you see? Sand, · · ' · · of course. For our records and for use in future editions of this book Dark Star would welcome copies of the covers of the pamphlets reprinted in this book to enable us to illustrate the widespread distribution of them both in terms of time and geographical locations. DARK STAR c/o AK Distribution
Dark Star would like to thank Chris Gray and Ken Knabb, without whose translations this anthology would not have been possible. As Lautreamont observed, "Words expressing evil are destined to take on a more positive meaning. Ideas improve - the sense of words takes part in this process. Plagiarism is necessary. it is implied in the idea of progress. it clasps an author's sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea. To be well wrought, a maxim does not need to be corrected. it needs to be developed. " ..
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SITUATIONISTS AND THE 1£CH, MAY 19
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en tant qu'intelligence de la prati
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Foreword This anthology brings toge
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On the poverty of student life Cons
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produced the grandiose compensation
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and makes them the only measuring-r
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sterile options, But their refusal
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Oam.arades, des Cl ':A! vous aures
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world of lies, working diligently f
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social form. With autogestion ends
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Strasbourg affair in terms of a "cr
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capitalist system is unabated,. wil
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ly through Mustapha Khayati. The di
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perspective was to destroy their ow
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assured themselves that their histo
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their world, for the suppression of
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Bureaucratic capitalism has found i
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to work (in its form of sacrifice i
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EST DAN5 Lt\ RUE
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j · sentation and thus it provokes
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equally mythical sacrifice of a new
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sion of immobile instants (this not
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holds it by isolating it; yet such
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which it served both as a regulatin
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deprived of spectacle; the fact tha
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wear the same mask and only the tor
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Paris: May 1968 Introduction (Writt
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like us ...) wistfully dreams anoth
Page 69: students. The regime will not toler
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Page 97: Workers Beware! Text of a CGT poste
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Page 109 and 110: The varlous working parties can, wh
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Page 114 and 115: Address to all workers Comrades, Wh
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