Module 05: 1968 — A Generation in Revolt?

Evidence 3: "Slogans to Be Spread Now by Every Means" by the Occupation Committee of the Autonomous and Popular Sorbonne University, May 16, 1968

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(leaflets, announcements over microphones, comic strips, songs, graffiti, balloons on paintings in the Sorbonne, announcements in the theaters during films or while disrupting them, balloons on subway billboards, before making love, after making love, in elevators, each time you raise your glass in a bar):

OCCUPY THE FACTORIES
POWER TO THE WORKERS COUNCILS
ABOLISH CLASS SOCIETY
DOWN WITH THE SPECTACLE-COMMODITY SOCIETY
ABOLISH ALIENATION
HUMANITY WON'T BE HAPPY TILL THE LAST BUREAUCRAT IS HUNG WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST CAPITALIST
DEATH TO THE COPS
FREE ALSO THE 4 GUYS CONVICTED FOR LOOTING DURING THE 6 MAY RIOT

OCCUPATION COMMITTEE OF THE
AUTONOMOUS AND POPULAR SORBONNE UNIVERSITY
16 May 1968, 7:00 p.m.

Source:
Ken Knabb, ed., Situationist International Anthology (Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1989), 344.

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