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"festival of the oppressed"-- and there was good humor in these
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occupations, again the same kind of guerrilla
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theater and all of this; great attention not to destroy the
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machinery that the workers, when this all had settled, would
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come back.
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But on May 14th^( )there an aircraft plant near Nantes was occupied and
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then the sit-down strike spread, as in 1936.
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On May 16th workers occupied the giant Renault Billancourt,
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Renault plant there, and then it spread to other areas.
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It was the largest mobilization of workers in French history,
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without any question, even more than 1936.
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And rather like 1936 it left the Communist Party confused and