strike was a success throughout France. Very few teachers showed up at the universities and many students were on the picket. lines.
The week of demonstrations was to end yesterday with a rally in the — Latin Quarter of Paris. Under the pretext that it would block traffic, the ‘Minister of the Interior banned the gathering. But the organ izations decided to go ahead anyway. - , ,
Yesterday afternoon some ten thousand students assembled at the edge of a zone guarded by large numbers of police.
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When the police sought to disperse the students, violent incidents flared up. For more than three hours the Left Bank was the scene of demonstrations and scuffles in which the police used their lead-weighted capes against the students. ©
Some groups of students crossed the Seine to demonstrate along the Grands Boulevards.
The strike and yesterday's demonstrations testify to the hostility which the campus feels towards the regime and also toward the civil author= ities. ; a wo
. The workers? organizations are expressing solidarity with the teachers and students, But these big organizations, which encompass the majority of the working class, content themselves with expressing verbal solidarity and make no call for action to support the right to demonstrate, This failure is another expression of the. lack of will among the traditional leaders to struggle against the Gaullist regime, They salute partial movements that seek limited objectives in this or that area, but open up no real perspective for these struggles, not. trying to raise them to a.political level. They seek only to draw electoral gains, Something else is needed to bring an end to a bonapartist regime.
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