Union of Communist youths Marxist-Leninists

The Union of Communist youths Marxist-Leninists , UJC (ml) , is a founded organization Maoist the December 10th 1966 by a hundred militants excluded from the Union of the communist students. Directed by Benny Levy, Robert Linhart and Jacques Broyelle, it is mainly established with Paris with the National university. Contrary to the French communist Movement (Marxist-Leninist) and to the Communist party Marxist-Leninist of France, UJC (ml) considers that the construction of the Communist party must rest on the initiative of the popular masses.

For UJC (ml), the students Maoists must bind to the workmen by giving up their studies and while going to work in the factories. It creates the Comités Vietnam basic to defend the mode of North Vietnam against the American army and publishes the red newspaper Garde .

UJC (ml) also obtains a paramilitary branch, the GPA (Groups of protection and self-defense), directed by Olivier Rolin. The April 27th 1968, the GPA tackle with Paris the exposure on the “crimes” of Vietcongs organized by the United front of support for the South-Vietnam who is held, 44, Rue of Rennes, with the seat of the Company of encouragement for national industry. The students of the Sorbonne expect then in the days which follow to a response of the Extrême right-hand side. The May 3rd, the gathering of the various services of order of the organizations of extreme left in the court of the Sorbonne causes the intervention of the police force and the first riot of May 1968.

UJC (ml) is prohibited by the Presidential decree of the Republic of June 12th, 1968. Its militants then gather in the committees “To serve the People” then in the proletarian Gauche.

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