AT the CSF factory in Brest, the workers decided to carry on production, but they produced what they themselves considered important, notably walkie-talkies to help strikers and demonstrators to defend themselves against the forces of represAt Nantes, the strike committee tried to control traffic town;
distributed permits for the use of vehicles, and blocked the entrances to the town with barricades.
same committee even issued "cremil-lokens wich were accepted as currency by certain shopkeepers and farmers.
At the Mureaux cement works, the workers voted in a French working _class blooded revolt. The communications system was paralysed and soon the power stations, printing presses, and une sapyards The scale of the strike had become clear. It was a spontaneous general strike from The general strike had a number of imporda tant features. The first was that it had no clearly defined economic objectives. against Gaullism. The Gaullist state trembled. Isolated and paralysed by the strike it took comfort in the fact that it was not yet facing a frontal attack. general assembly to remove the manager. They refused to accept employers' proposals for a new vote.
The manager in question was thereupon sent off to a different branch of the same cement works, where, out of solidarity with those from Mureaux, workers immediately came out on strike — for the first time in the history of the factory.
At the Wonder Batteries factory, at Saint-Ouen, the strikers elected a strike committee, and in order to show telr disapproval for the reformist line of the CGT, the Communist Party-led unions, they barricaded themselves inside the factory and refused to let the union officials in.
At the Rouen naval yards, the workers took people selling revolutionary was in fullcame to a serious results.
The strike It was a revolt down any go all the way.
literature under their protec tion, and prevented the CRS who were following and trying to arrest them from entering the factory.
In several Paris printing works, the workers insisted changes headline (Le Figaro) or refused to print a newspaper (La Nation), when the content was directly damaging to In the Peugeot plant at Sochaux, the workers built barricades against any intrusion by the CRS, and chased the latter victoriously out of the factory.
Perhaps the quent. case of all: in the Atlantic Yards at Nazaire, the workers cupied the plant and for ter days refused to submit a list despite constant from the union apparatus.
Georges Pompidou emerged as the leading bourgeois strategist. He accepted that France confronted a 'pre-revolutionary' situation. But he insisted that the state should remain inactive, since any provocation could have very had no political objectives either, and the only workers' party capable oi giving a lead refused to do so. The French Communist Partv (PCI) became the ultimate bastion of the French state. It did not even lay conditions for its support to Gaulie. The favourite slogan of French workers occupying the factories was: 'This time we will Revolution SaintUC• of bold, agrarian reforms. demands, experience of paratus (the army). de books.