In an article on the French crisis which appeared in the May 19th issue of the OBSERVER the following appeared:
Behind these organisations (UNEF and SNESUP) lies [illegible] Past two weeks, which may justly be described as the greatest success the Trotskyists have ever achieved in Europe. The JCR believes that revolution is war, Like Trotsky, its prophet, it is fascinated by military strategy. Its members are inflamed by the [illegible] themes of [illegible] bourgeois society [illegible] Vietnam war, They provide the principal French link with the German League of Socialist Students (SDS) led by Rudi Dutschke, In France they are estimated to have some 1,000 hard-core members spread over 30 cities, In Paris, scratch any one of the proliferating Sorbonne committees and you find their men, Their directing hand is at work in the 22 March Movement, the May 3 Movement, and also in the CAL (Comites d'Action des Lyceens), the secondary school action committees, which are leading the attack on the baccalaureate - and which, if successful, could plunge France into a crisis even graver than the university revolution, From the first day of the crisis a group of men has been meeting regularly, outside the ferment at the Sorbonne, to direct operations, Their organisations and names are: 22 March Movement: Daniel Cohn-Bendit; UNEF, the students' union: Jacques Sauvageot; SNESUP, the teachers' union: Alain Geismar; JCR: Alain Krevine; CAL, secondary students' organisation: Recanati This is the secret high command of the revolution which, with the snowballing industrial strike, has brought General de Gaulle hurrying home from Romania,
* in an otherwise fairly accurate article this is an error, The International Communist Party (PCI) is in fact the French section of the Fourth International, The JCR has close links with the PCI.