"La Lutte Continue"  - “the Fight Continues” is a French poster and ephemera of the student revolt in Paris, 1968.

A century ago, the red and the black referred to the struggle between two Frances, one anticlerical, socialist, universalist; the other Catholic, conservative, nationalist. By 1968, red and black had come to designate a different kind of conflict. Those who paraded behind red flags during the May revolt represented one or another brand of Communism in power (now or in the past), while those who proudly displayed black flags were anarchists in fact or in tendency. Red flags and black flags flew together in defiance of the bourgeois state. The students of France, in the May revolution of 1968, developed a new barebones poster style for anti-Gaullist and anti-police propaganda. With silkscreen and lithograph, the students produced a series of spontaneous designs. The absence of newspapers, radio, and television allowed the poster to monopolize immediate communication. In next to no time, thousands of posters began to appear all over the country, giving aid and encouragement to the revolution.

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