Appel du Mouvement du 22 Mars - Constituons des Comités d'Action Révolutionnaire!
Single sheet tract from the Mouvement du 22 Mars French student movement. Quarto (12 1/8 x 8 3/16 inches). Loose as issued. Foxing and toning throughout, overall very good. Paris: Imprimerie Ch. Bernard, [1968].
This single sheet constitutes the first tract from the Mouvement du 22 Mars. It calls for the formation of revolutionary action committees (C.A.R. - comités d'action révolutionnaire) in all workplaces. The Mouvement du 22 Mars was a French student movement centered at the University of Nanterre which carried out a prolonged occupation of the university's administration building, and is considered one of the triggers of May 1968. The tract reads, in part: "Pour l'aboutissement des revendications.... - Formons des GROUPES DE DISCUSSION où tout peut être dit et mis en question, où des objectifs critiques nouveaux seront définis, et les luttes nécessaires organisées. - Préparaons dès maintenant la COORDINATION de nos C.A.R. à travers un contac permanent et une action commune. - EXPRIMONS-NOUS par des tracts, des journaux, des prises de parole dans la rue, des affiches sur les murs, des films, etc. pour que la voix des travailleurs domine enfin le mensonge de la bourgeousie. -Contre la répression policière, contre la violence du capitalisme, pour assurer l'autonomie de notre action politique et pour nous donner les moyens d'atteindre nos objectifs, organisons l'auto-défense."
Led in part by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the movement was described by activist Jean-Jacques Lebel as "a coalition of Guevarists, Anarchists, and Trotskyites...The most active, determined, and spontaneously revolutionary force in the movement." An article from a 2018 series from Medium which examined the events of 1968 worldwide read, "Before May, Mouvement du 22 Mars, or the March 22nd movement, initiated the rise of Student's dissent toward their authoritarian government became most apparent in France. On the Friday evening of March 22, 1968, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a student of the university that was later banned from France by the goverment, led 142 students in the occupation of the Administrative building at the University of Nanterre. To take a 'liberal' stance...the government and authorities allocated a 400-seat lecture hall to the students, but the move was to constrict the movement occurring. Soon the 142 students became an assembly of thousands. (Veronica Arce, "The French Insurrection: May Movement of 1968", Medium.com, April 18, 2018)
An important document from a turning-point event in the history of 1968.
Book ID: 53356
Price: $2,750.00