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CAL – Comités d’Action Lycéens (High-School Action Committees)
CFDT – Confederation Française et Democratique du Travail (French Democratic Confederation of Labor – an independent union of Catholic origin)
CGC – Confederation Generale des Cadres (General Confederation of Professionals)
CGT – Confederation Generale du Travail (General Confederation of Labor – the Communist controlled union)
CNPF – Conseil National du Patronnat Français (French Employers Association)
CVN – Comités Vietnam Nationaux ( National Vietnam Committees)
CP – Communist Party
CRS – Compagnies Republicaines de Securité (Republican Security Companies – militarily armed and trained elite security troops)
CSF – Compagnie Generale de Telegraphic sans Fil (General Electric Company)
FEN – Federation de l’Education National (National Educational Federation)
FER – Federation des Etudiants Revolutionnaires (Federation of Revolutionary Students – the youth group of the OCI)
FGDS – Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste (Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left – an alliance of right-wing Social Democrats and liberals)
FO – Force Ouvrière (Work Force – a right-wing Social Democratic controlled union under American patronage)
FTP – Franc-Tireurs et Partisans (Snipers and Partisans – the armed forces of the French resistance)
Groupes Marxistes Revolutionnaires (Revolutionary Marxist Groups – the group associated with the former Fourth International leader Michel Pablo)
JCR – Jeunesse Communiste Revolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Youth)
OAS – Organisation de l’Armée Secrete (Secret Army Organization – the right-wing terror organization which arose in the last phase of the Algerian war)
OCI – Organisation Communiste Internationaliste (the Internationalist Communist Organization – a sectarian organization claiming to be Trotskyist – allied with the Socialist Labour League in England)
ORTF – Office de Radio et Television Français (Bureau of French Radio and Television – the state controlled communications network)
PCF – Parti Communiste Francais (French Communist Party)
PCI – Parti Communiste Internationaliste (Internationalist Communist party – the French section of the Fourth International)
PCMLF – Parti Communiste Marxiste-Leniniste Français (the Marxist-Leninist French Communist Party – one of the two pro-Chinese groups in France)
PSU – Parti Socialiste Unifié (United Socialist Party – a centrist formation)
PTT – Postes Telephones et Telegraphes (the telephone and telegraph system)
RATP – Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (the Paris transportation company)
SNESup – Syndicat National de l’Enseignement Superieur (National Union of University Teachers)
SNCF – Societé Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (the French state railways)
SNECMA – Societé Nationale d’Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d’Aviation (the state supported aviation construction and research company)
Syndicat du Livre – the printers union
UC – Union Communiste (Communist Union – a group claiming to be Trotskyist which publishes Voix Ouvrière)
UEC – Union des Etudiants Communistes (Union of Communist Students – the Communist Party’s student organization)
UNEF – Union Nationale des Etudiants Français (National Union of French Students)
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