SITUATIONISTS AND THE 1£CH MAY 1968

Workers Beware!
Text of a CGT poster, placarded all over Boulogne Billancourt:
For some months the most diverse publications have been distributed by elements recruited
in a milieu foreign to the working class. .
The authors of these articles remain anonymous most of the time, a fact which .fully
illustrates their dishonesty. They give the most weird and tempting titles to their papers,
the better to mislead: Luttes Ouvrieres; Servir le Peuple; Unite et Tra vail*; · Lutte
Communiste; Revoltes; Voix Ourriere; Un Groupe d' Ouvriers.
The titles may vary but the content has a common objective: to lead the workers away
from the CGT and to provoke divisions in their ranks, in order to weaken them.
At night, their commandos tear up our posters. Every time they distribute something
at the gates, the police are not far off, ready to protect their distribution, as was the case
recently at LMT. Recently they attempted to invade the offices of the Labour Exchange at
Boulogne. Their activities are given an exaggerated publicity on the Gaullist radio and in
the columns of the bourgeois press.
This warning is no doubt superfluous for the majority of Renault workers, who, in the
past, have got to know about this kind of agitation. On the other hand the younger workers
must be told that these elements are in the service of the bourgeoisie, who have
always made use of these pseudo-revolutionaries whenever the rise of united left forces
has presented a threat to its privileges.
lt is therefore important not to allow these people to come to the gates of our factory,
to sully our trade union organisation and our CGT militants. who are tirelessly exerting
themselves in defence of our demands and to bring about unity. These elements always
reap a fat reward at the end of the day fo r their dirty work, and for the loyal services given
to the bosses (some now occupy high positions in the management of the factory).
This having been said, the CGT (Renault} Committee calls on the workers to continue
the fight for their demands, to intensify their efforts to ensure greater unity of the trade
union and democratic forces, and to strengthen the ranks of the CGT struggling for these
noble objectives:
The Trade Union Bureau, CGT, Renault
*This is a fascist publication; all the others are 'left' public'ations. A typical amalgam technique.