Sorbonne Occupation Committee
The Sorbonne Occupation Committee (French: Comité d'Occupation de la Sorbonne) was a
May 1968 events in France
.
The Sorbonne student occupation began Monday, 13 May, after the police withdrew from the Latin Quarter.[1]
On 16 May, upon hearing about the successful occupation of the Sud-Aviation factory at Nantes by the workers and students of that city,[2] as well as the spread of the movement to several factories (Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne in Paris, Renault in Cléon),[2] the Sorbonne Occupation Committee sent out a communiqué calling for the immediate occupation of all the factories in France and the formation of workers' councils.[2]
See also
- May 1968 in France
- On the Poverty of Student Life
- Council for Maintaining the Occupations
- Situationist International
References
- ^ René Viénet (1968) The Sorbonne Occupied. Enragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement (Paris, May 1968). Translated by Loren Goldner and Paul Sieveking.
- ^ a b c Sorbonne Occupation Committee (1968) Communiqué. (Paris, May 1968). Translated by Ken Knabb.
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