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I'm asking Gérard to send you a very shady little book (Protestation… sur les capitulations de 1980), which I think should be read very attentively.
Guy Debord, letter to Jaap Kloosterman, July 13, 1981

Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980 ("A protest aimed at the libertarians of the present and the future, about the surrenders of 1980") was published in 1981. It was only signed with the word Incontrôlé ("Uncontrolled"), didn't bear the name of any publisher, and was printed on stolen paper.

Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980
Jean-Claude Lutanie

Printed in France
Published in March 2011
300 copies
18 × 11,1 cm, 7 × 4.4 in, 108 pages
French edition
ISBN: 978-2-918685-00-5

Design: Manon Lutanie

Press:
The Third Rail Quarterly

Out of print

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Jean-Claude Lutanie was a French writer born in Poitiers, France in 1951. He was involved in the social protests of the 1970s and 1980s, breaking away early on from any allegiance to a particular movement. In 1981, he published anonymously Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980, in which he outlined the Situationists’ contradictory position towards the far-left militant group Action directe. In 1993, he published Une lecture paranoïaque-critique de La Maison Tellier (Guy de Maupassant) with Le Veilleur. Lutanie’s academic research focused on the work of Jean-Pierre Brisset. He taught French in Tebessa, Algeria, from 1985 to 1987, then literature and history in a vocational high school in La Rochelle until his passing in 2006.