From the uprising Paris: correspondent of “International Worker Organizer” - May 18, 2016

The masses clashed against the government and the regime forces, as the murderous police…
Pickets, strikes, road blocks…

Long live the new French May! The fight has started!

Today in several regions of Paris and cities across France there were strikes, roadblocks, blockades and assemblies in the factories.
Many of them voted for the strike and organized for the demonstration call for tomorrow 19/5 by the Inter-Union.
Although there was no centralized called to the strike by the unions, many companies and factories are partially paralyzed, and other completely paralyzed, as longshoremen and the National Federation of Mines and Energy.
The central battalions of French working class begin to go out to battle against the collaborationist union bureaucracies. Today strikes and assemblies were made while bureaucracy refuses to make a decisive call to strike and "leaves each worker under their own decision" whether or not to strike.
But the French workers entered into the hurricane of rebellious youth who breaking banks and facing the fascist police, start to follow the steps of the French May, the fighting on the barricades and the unity of the workers-youth.
So much so, Hollande was forced to mount a filthy provocation against rebellious youth in general and the movement Nuit Debout in particular which was uprising again. For that, with the ever faithful support of the Stalinist bureaucracy of CGT who have a union within the police, they set up a police "demonstration" in the Square of la Republique in Paris demanding tougher measures against the "vandals". This provocation was also developed in other cities where ere were violent clashes against the enforcement of this 5th Republic, as in Nantes, Lille, Rennes and Calais. In the latter city, where the refugees were attacked and their camps burned months ago, the murderous fascist police made their demonstration also demanding better conditions to repress and kill refugees under the discourse of "migration crisis".
This huge provocation mounted by Hollande and called by the treacherous bureaucracy of CGT also attended in some cities, such as Paris, with the presence of the fascist union police "Alliance" and with the support of the Zionists "Jewish League " from Paris.
The provocation was mounted just in the Square of La Republique, to break this movement, the May 15 thousands of people gathered at an international conference. It was mounted just knowing the rebellious, anti-fascist and militant youth fighting against a real battlefield.
In the periphery of Paris, as Saint Denis, group of youth reached the square, and when the confrontation started against the contingent of riot police (willing to smash the “counter-demonstration”) began the siege and the offensive on the square.
It was a brutal fight. The youth managed to surround a police car and set it on fire, which was used as an excuse by the state to arrest all who were in the square, with questioning for "attempted murder".
But the youth and exploited did not surrender, and various groups and collectives have already announced that they will return to the square, and begin to coordinate with each other, even between different cities.

We have already got the lessons! The will to fight too! So now the immediate task is to fight for the coordination of all sectors in struggle in a Congress with rank and file delegates, where can be voted the need for a revolutionary general strike to tear down Hollande, the 5th imperialist Republic, and passing over of all their supporters.

We do not sell out or give up in the Square of la Republique