organized in local sections, mostly corresponding to universities or campus. These sections are sometimes regrouped in citywide sections or groups of cities. It is headed by a national collective of 30 members, elected during each congress of the MJCF. The national collective then elects a national coordination, charged of the implementation of the collective's decision and of the organisation of debates, as well as a national secretary. The UEC is present in many universities, including the Sorbonne, Jussieu University, Tolbiac University, University of Paris III (Censier), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, University of Paris VIII, University of Aix-Marseille, University of Bordeaux, University of Caen, University of Grenoble, University of Lyon, University of Orléans, University of Dijon, etc. Activity Along with ATTAC Campus, the UEC is the only student political association present at the national scale (notwithstanding students' union such as the UNEF). Since it is not a students' union, it does not present itself at students' elections in universities. However, the UEC did present an electoral list in December 2005 for the elections in the University of Aix-Marseille I, which obtained 15% of the votes; the vice-president of the students' representatives in the universities is therefore affiliated to the UEC. The UEC contributes to political debate, carries out investigations and information tasks. It took part to the 2006 protests against the CPE labour contract. It has opposed itself to the Bologna process reforming universities at the European scale, implemented in France by the LMD reforms, and participated to the demonstrations in 2003 against these reforms. In June 2006, the UEC participated to the collective Unis contre l'immigration jetable (United Against Throw-Away Immigration) and to the creation of the Réseau université sans frontière (Network of Universities Without Borders), opposed to anti-immigration policies then enacted by Dominique de Villepin's government (with Nicolas Sarkozy as Minister of Interior). List of national secretaries Some former members Tony Bloncourt (executed in 1942) Pierre Goldman (assassinated in 1979) Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (Resistant during Vichy France, died in 2006) Alain Krivine (now leader of the Revolutionary Communist League, LCR) Dominique Strauss-Kahn (president of the International Monetary Fund as of 2007) References Bibliography BRILLANT, Bernard, Les clercs de 68. Paris : PUF, 2003. DREYFUS, Michel, PCF, crises et dissidences. Paris : éditions Complexe, 1990. HAMON Hervé, ROTMAN Patrick, Génération. 1. Les années de rêve. Paris : Le Seuil, 1987. MATONTI, Frédérique, Intellectuels communistes, essai sur l'obéissance politique : la Nouvelle