posed entirely of women, some IMRO workers and some wives of IMRO workers.
inside the factory?
Y-M: Well, we did at Christmas when we had a huge festival inside the factory. It was a big success. Many women came.
gives her a real feeling of comradeship. This is very encouraging for of the local unemployed workers committee are coming to settle at the factory.
Q. Could you say something about your efforts to co-ordinate your works in France that are occupied at the moment. One of our central We have particularly tried to build links with the two occupied printhave come to occupy - at one time the night occupation shift was comFrees at Evreux.
Q. Didn't you try to set up a creche Another thing is that a woman comrade unemploved but not from IMRO, has settled at the factory. She occupies every night now. I think it us, and in fact quite a few members DeSESO EBO struggle with those of other workers - particularly in the printing industry?
Y-M: IMRO is only one of 15 print- well-known.
aims is to co-ordinate these struggles. works in our region: Caron-Ozanne, who have also been publishing a paper called Ouest Licenciements (West Redundancies), and Michel Unfortunately our union, the CGT, has refused to co-ordinate these struggles. They support us verbally, but all they're really interested in is negotiations.
S: Yes, we have to fight to link together the whole working class against this international offensive of the bosses. Trying to shift our problems onto the backs of other workers abroad is no solution at S: The CGT doesn't popularise the struggles, so we go around ourselves to visit workers in struggle - it's the Y-M: To such an extent that we've produced something like 100,000 leaflets so far. After seven months we're now beginning to be quite We've also begun to develop contacts abroad. We've done two meetings in Germany, now we're in Britain, and we hope to go on to Belgium. Italy and perhaps Portugal.
It is very important that we develop these contacts. There are general moves to restructure the printing industry throughout Europe which have already destroyed many jobs - 12,000 in France, 9,000 in Britain, I think, and 30,000 in West Germany. Another thing we have to guard against is a campaign to bring back to France all printing which is done abroad.
Q. The latest group to move into action against the French Govern ment are the students. Have you established any links with them?
S: There has always been a certain hostility to students inside the working class, but the IMRO workers are not like that. Last week we were invited by the students to speak at their general meeting, and we had very good discussions with them.
We also took part in their demonstraton wim our banners and sio gans; and for the first time since May '68 we heard and shouted back the slogan Students - Workers -Solidarity!