This is a fascinating collection of documents and analyses indispensable for the understanding of the upsurge. Pierre Frank, secretary of the [illegible] Parti Communiste Internationaliste (French section of the Fourth International) writes at length on the significance of the events as a whole, and contributions by Francois Thibault, Lludovik and Francis Michel cover particular aspects - the student movement, the Comites d'Action Lyceens, and the way the various revolutionary organisations measured up to the test of the events. Two statements by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International and a complete documentation of the leaflets issued by the P.C.I. provide a stage-by-stage analysis of the trend of developments.
[An in]teresting addition is the collection of quotations from L'Humanite, together with the press issues of the leadership of the French Communist Party and the C.G.T., which provides a hardly creditable record for these bodies in the face of what happened.
The pamphlet as a whole is a must for all those [illegible] events have [illegible] European revolutionary politics. For those whose French is not so strong, English versions exist of six of these documents in the appropriate back issues of INTERCONTINENTAL PRESS(1) - the two statements [by] the United Secretariat (Vol. 6, No. 21, 3rd. June [illegible]), two of the leaflets of the [P.C.I.] (Vol. 6, No. 22, 10th. June p. 525 and Vol. 6, No. 23, 17th. June p. 569), the joint communique of the three Trotskyist [organisations] (Vol. 6, No. 22, 10th. June pp. 525-528) and the statement by Pierre Frank on the dissolution of the P.C.I. (Vol. 6, [No.] [illegible] June [illegible]). [illegible] copies of an [English] translation [of an] account of the behaviour of the different revolutionary bodies by Francis Michel can be obtained, postage paid, for 9d., from Pioneer Books, at the above address.
(1) Available from Pioneer Books, price 2/3 post-paid. A translation of the main article by Pierre Frank appears in INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST REVIEW current issue, also available from the same address, price 4/- post-paid.
Mai 1968: Premiere phase de la revolution socialiste francaise - numero special [de] Quatrieme Internationale, juillet 1968. (Available from Pioneer Books, 8 Toynbee St., London E.1. - price: 7/6d, postage paid.)