SITUATIONISTS AND THE 1£CH MAY 1968

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C:ONT£NiS Foreword 1 On The Poverty of Student Life 9 Menibers of the lnternationale Situationniste and Students of Strasbourg 2 Our Goals & Methods Situationist International 29 3 Totality For kids Raoul Vaneigem 4 Paris May 1968 Solidarity 5 The Decline & Fall of the "Spectacular" Commodity-Economy GuyDebord 6 Documents Situationist International 7 Further reading 105 117 Afterward
Foreword This anthology brings together the three most widely translated, distributed and influential pamphlets of the Situationist International available in the sixties. We have also included an eyewitness account of the May Events by a member of Solidarity published in June 1968. (Dark Star would like to point out that although Solidarity does not possess the current 'kudos' or media/cultural interest possessed by the Situationists, politically they are deserving of more recognition and research). To briefly sketch in some historical context, both The Poverty of Student Life (also known as Ten Days That Shook The University), and Paris: May 1968 were conceived as pamphlets. The Totality for Kids and The Decline And Fall of The Spectacular Commodity Economy were translated from articles in the Situationist International journal. The Totality for Kids, written by Raoul Vaneigem, originally appeared in two parts in Issue No 7 (April 1962) and Issue No 8 Oanuary 1963). The Decline and Fall of The Spectacular Commodity Economy, written by Guy Debord, originally appeared in Issue No 10 (March 1966). The Poverty of Student Life, probably the most famous or infamous of these pamphlets, was originally distributed by AFGES students on 22 November 1966. lt was reissued in March 1967 and in May 1967 it was widely distributed around the Nanterre campus by Anarchists. November of that year saw the publication of Debord's Society of the Spectacle and December the publication of Vaneigem's Revolution of Everyday Life. What we hope this Anthology will offer the reader is not only a concise introduction to the ideas of the Situationists but also an insight into what Situationist material was readily available in the late sixties. For the non-French speaking person with an interest in radical politics the chances are that their encounter with and knowledge of the Situationists would be derived from these three pamphlets. lt is worth emphasising that although we recall seeing a duplicated translation of Society of the Spectacle it was not until Black & Red published their translation in 1970 that the book became generally available. Likewise, although an edition of Revolution Of Everyday Life was translated by John Fullerton and Paul Sieveking and published by Practical Paradise in 1972 (in an edition whose unique selling point to utilise a commercial phrase - seemed to be the book's ability to fall to pieces in pamphlet-size chunks!), it was not until Donald Nicholson Smith's translation published by Rebel Press in 1983 that the title became widely available. If we recall that Chris
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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
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students. The regime will not toler
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demonstrators. One can't even move
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ards really means. All day, the ste
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packed out, the seat of continuous,
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Unknown Soldier was the outrage tha
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- - Sorbonne, they ' also took over
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"The blokes liked the leaflet. They
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some streets many Algerians line th
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the role of the PCF to be best of o
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page, a statement issued the day be
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France, 1968 This has undoubtedly b
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and multiplying its numbers a hundr
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Workers Beware! Text of a CGT poste
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ified by these actions so unintelli
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and drug orgies were uncovered amon
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!owed unless the system is overthro
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activity. The organisation radicall
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The varlous working parties can, wh
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goal. The next day's general assemb
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Address to all workers Comrades, Wh
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The struggle against alienation has
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.· ® Afterword There is a traditi
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