Images of the French CGT union's 'services d'ordre' stewards

Thanks to Battlescared for intro text.

Thanks for these. I didn't think anyone still used pickaxe handles. I've not seen these guy before, pretty disappointed that they still do these things.

Nice one for putting these up! Fucking disgusting behaviour from CGT and FO tho..

thanks for sharing

See Maurice Brinton's description of the CGT and its service d'ordre (SO) during May 1968 in Paris. Brinton is quoted on the Libcom thread: France: protests against new labour law

The CGT have produced some leaflets denouncing ‘police violence’ and ‘repression’ in the context of the ongoing struggle against the new labour law. This is a tad ironic considering the CGT’s own marshals have been actively collaborating with police in the repression of uncontrollable elements within the labour law protests. The anti-CGT poster above is a subversion of their own leaflet design.

Thanks for those images!

would be interesting to know more about the internal divisions/discussions inside the CGT about the issue, according to my knowledge, the CGT can't be treated as a coordinated or even a monolithic org anymore

Absolute scumbags. I have seen these guys in action, at a Mayday march in Paris some years ago… Maybe 2003? They got aggro and started shoving around and threatening the front section of anarchist block (which if I recall was about 5000 strong)

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I have seen these guys in action, at a Mayday march in Paris some years ago… Maybe 2003? They got aggro and started shoving around and threatening the front section of anarchist block (which if I recall was about 5000 strong)

And now we have witnessed them on the back foot and petrified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsL_tNNac4E

Schmoopie wrote:

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I have seen these guys in action, at a Mayday march in Paris some years ago… Maybe 2003? They got aggro and started shoving around and threatening the front section of anarchist block (which if I recall was about 5000 strong)

And now we have witnessed them on the back foot and petrified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsL_tNNac4E

What time in the video is this referring to? It's quite long…

9:40

destroy capital wrote:

The CGT have produced some leaflets denouncing ‘police violence’ and ‘repression’ in the context of the ongoing struggle against the new labour law. This is a tad ironic considering the CGT’s own marshals have been actively collaborating with police in the repression of uncontrollable elements within the labour law protests. The anti-CGT poster above is a subversion of their own leaflet design.

Does anyone know how we could get these images back? Also is it possible to automatically cache or save images to galleries? Most of the sites we link to don't last more than a couple of years. Entdinglichung wrote:

would be interesting to know more about the internal divisions/discussions inside the CGT about the issue, according to my knowledge, the CGT can't be treated as a coordinated or even a monolithic org anymore

There is a libertarian communist grouping within the CGT that hs a website, they also reposted the communiqué after the SO attack people at the september 12th demo this year.