CAL |
Comité d'Action Lycéene: High School Action Committee
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CFDT |
Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail: second largest union in France
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CGT |
Confédération Générale du Travail: the Communist Party trades union, the largest union in France
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CMDO |
Comité pour le Maintien des Occupations: see Chapter 8
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CNPF |
Confédération Nationale du Patronat Française: National Federation of French Employers
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CRS |
Confédération Républicaines de Sécurité: national riot police
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FER |
Fédération des Étudiants Révolutionnaires: Trotskyites
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ICO |
Information et Correspondance Ouvrières: student-run bulletin of working class news
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JCR |
Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire: the major Trotskyite bureaucratic group of 'Communist Youths'
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NMPP |
Nouvelle Messageries de la Presse Parisienne: monopoly distributors of newspapers
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OAS |
Organisation de l'Armée Secrète: Extreme right wing paramilitary organization responsible for terrorism at the time of the Algerian War of Independence
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ORTF |
Office de la Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française: government controlled monopoly of radio and television
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PCF |
Parti Communiste Française: French Communist Party
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PTT |
Poste, Télégraphe et Télécommunications: national postal, telegraph and telephone system
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RATP |
Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens: Paris bus and underground rail system
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SFIO |
Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière: French Socialist Party
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SMIG |
Salarie Minimum Intégral Garantie: minimum legal wage
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SNCF |
Société Nationale de Chemins de Fer Française: national railway system
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SNESup |
Syndicat National de l'Education Supérieure: National Union of Higher Education Employees
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UDR |
Union pour la Défense de la République: From May 30th onwards, both the Gaullist party (formerly UNR Union pour la Nouvelle République) and groups of anti-red 'patriots' formed at de Gaulle's call
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UNEF |
Union Nationale des Étudiants Française: National French Union of Students
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Fouchet Reform |
Educational reform introduced by Minister Fouchet in 1966 for the 'modernization' of French education. Followed in 1968 by the Faure Reform.
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Alain Geismar |
Maoist secretary of SNESup
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Les Halles |
Central warehouse district for food distribution in Paris, 'the belly of Paris,' demolished by urbanists in 1970.
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L'Humanité |
Communist Party daily newspaper
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Nouvel Observateur |
Modernist left-wing weekly newspaper
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Jacques Sauvegeot |
Recuperator and bureaucratic boss of the UNEF
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Georges Seguy |
Secretary-general of the CGT and a major Stalinist
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Sorbonne |
The University of Paris |