How should the general strike be prepared?
Committees of struggle! Workers can place no confidence in the leaders of the CGT to prepare, organise and launch the general strike. More interested in discussions with the top bosses of the CNPF [employers’ federation], Jouhaux, Frachon and Co intend above all to ensure social peace against the most legitimate interests of the working people. Workers should count only on themselves to prepare action. Irrespective of, and transcending, all party or union barriers, the advanced workers of the PCI, the revolutionary tendency of the CGT, the Workers Front, the CNT, the PCF and the PS, the Anarchists and those without a party who have understood the betrayal of the leaders of the big workers’ organisations, must get together to prepare action in committees of struggle. What are committees of struggle? Towards a congress of enterprises! During the engineering workers’ strike in February 1947, workers from different political and union tendencies got together in committees of struggle in or
