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Group councilist and bulletin of the same name, founded in 1958 and originally named information and liaison workers (ILO), ICO changed name in 1960. The group came from a division of Socialism or barbarism grouped around Claude Lefort and Henri Simon. The group considered with Claude Lefort that any party is an artificial "ie manufactured outside of the proletariat" and called for liaison work between "multiple nuclei of activists organizing their activities freely." ILO gave himself for goal:

* - Meet workers who no longer have confidence in the traditional parties or unions;

* - Enable workers to inform each other about their workplace, to denounce the manoeuvres union, to discuss the claims, s'apporter reciprocal assistance, to intervene in the struggle, individually, as workers and not as an organization;

* - Advocate the formation of committees involving an active workers;

* - Considering it essential spontaneous movements, seek to know the struggles of workers, struggles of resistance to the domination of modern aircraft, which are a step towards the management of enterprises and society by the workers themselves same.

In 1968, is a collaboration between ICO and some elements of the Movement of March 22 (those who were close to the Red and Black). This leads to clashes with elements of the group of Enragés who attended the meetings ICO, leading to the rejection of Enragés. This period is followed by the publication of two brochures: "The general strike in France" and "self, State and Revolution," which under the guise of seeking a comprehensive analysis of the situation are in fact - in large part the product of internal contradictions which irot in s'exacerbant.

From No. 85 (September 69), the newsletter ronéoté ICO turns into a printed magazine:

"For 10 years, monthly bulletin-ronéoté so far-was for a limited circle of friends (workers or others) a place of reciprocal information and exchanges, discussions, contacts.

The circle has gradually expanded, and some have disappeared, others have left thinking also find a group more in line with their requirements, or activities, or theoretical or ethical.

May 68 gave our work a new dimension, they are now isolated groups of peers who are involved. "(ICO No. 85)

Indeed, at this time, in addition to the Paris group, a significant number of groups involved in ICO province: Nice (Column L), Marseille (Cahiers du Communism Councils), Toulouse (Revolution Internationale), Grenoble (Archinoir ), Clermont-Ferrand (MARCH then Conseilliste Organization), Le Havre (AEIS), Montpellier, Lille, Perpignan, Strasbourg, Lyon, Albertville,… Most of these groups are born to 68 and their reunification is less a political act that 'the feeling of isolation that was seized from them the fallout of the movement. Some of them took refuge in the ideology of a pseudo-disalienation of everyday life. After a few months (No. 99, November 70) that leads to development and a refocusing of the newspaper on the struggles of workers at production. In the same issue, "platform" which was traditionally the last page of ICO disappears, the differences that tear the group speaking also in some articles:

"WHAT MUST BE THE WORK OF A GROUP (problem of action if lon wants) can make a variety of ways:

-- ICO should simply seek to disseminate information on the struggles, reflections on them and texts broader analysis of capitalism and struggles (ie be confined to current publications)

-- ICO should try to disseminate his ideas in the same vein, but in a more concrete form may be defined by an individual or collective information and propagane.

-- ICO should go beyond the role of information and propaganda and act as a group struggles with positions or concrete proposals for material aid or another? Think there that this role could be expanded to other tasks in a situation which would see widespread struggles. These issues come down to dabat introduced in ICO under the title: What is the relationship between a group and the independent labour movement. "(No. 101-102, January-February 71).

The confusion and differences reignant then inside ICO then led some groups to be detached from it. In particular Revolution Internationale, Les Cahiers de Communism Councils and the Organization councilist of Clermont-Ferrand gather outside ICO end 70.

Information and Connections s'autodissout Workers in 1973. Some of its members will then in 1975 the founding of Trade and movement.

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* Texts on I.C.O.    * The spirit and several members of ICO found themselves after 1975 in the network and Trade Movement and its publication Trade [1] or BP 241, 75866 Paris Cedex 18 France.