Ne pas se pencher au déhors!
E pericoloso sporgesi!
Danger! Do not lean out!
Det är livsfarligt att luta sig ut!
Niet naar buiten hangen!
Paris, a witches' cauldron of political
instigations and demonstrations, armoured cars in the streets, the bloody
shadow of the Algerian war, OAS, FLN, clearing murders and torture. Strikes,
Police raids, censorship, no gallic ciarity but a dark witches' trial, shoo-ting
and reprisals, many dead and wounded. On the very first day of the meeting a previously printed ultimatum
was presented by the four last named members declaring the German group
of artists, SPUR, (Sturm, Zim-mer, Prem, Fischer and Kunzelmann) excluded
in the name of the Conseil Central. Those four go as far as to accuse
SPUR of "fractionist activity based on a systematic misunder-standing
of the situationnist theses ..."
That is precisely what they themseives might be denounced for, if we
chose to adopt their jesuit methods.
We came to the meeting also prepared to critizise the SPUR members,
but in quite another way. We protest against all kinds of fractionist
activity within the IS. In this council meeting in Paris we were confronted
with a fait acompli, which made an empty farce of the entire meeting.
An organization whose essential decisions are not based on th principle
of debate is totalitarian and does not agree with our rules of collabora-tion.
This was a fractionist attack against us, which is unacceptable to the
situationnists. To call in comrades from other countries only to hand
out a printed leaflet is a not very positive method. It can be explained
only as an outcome of the non-activity policy of those four members. This
is no good omen for the future of our movement Internationale Situationniste.
It is not only pointless but ridiculous indeed to pull the emerqency
brake when the train has already stopped.
Paris 13th February 1962.
Jacqueline de Jong, Jørgen Nash, Ansgar Elde
Paris, where our Conseil Central hoId a meeting in the Internationale Situationniste
the 10th and 11th February 1962, 129 Boulevard Saint-Germain - even here
brother against brother!
The conseil central of the IS has 8 members: