Global 68: Solidarity and Alliances — Tariq Ali and Angela Davis in Conversation

Global '68, a program of conferences organzied by Françoise Vergès, Marcus Rediker, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, and Sylvie Robic, took place in Paris May 2–4 and London May 5–6. Panels examined the political movements and historical developments that made 1968 a key year in countries around the world.

1968 was a year of offensives, uprisings, and demonstrations against capitalism and imperialism, for liberation and emancipation and the war in Vietnam was its epicenter. The events claimed many victories for democracy, equality, and emancipation, but also provoked deep, abiding repression. A counterfeit history has subsequently erased police violence and the deaths of participants, removed workers, women, students, and indigenous peoples from the picture, and eliminated anti-americanism, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, as well as the profound influences of the wars and interventions in Algeria, Latin America, and Vietnam. “Global 68” will retrieve the aspirations, energies, memories, and histories of this worldwide movement and offer hope to a new generation of activists.

On May 3 at the University of Nanterre, Tariq Ali joined Angela Davis in a conversation moderated by Vergès and Rediker, on internationalist solidarity and alliances.

Listen below to a full recording of their discussion, courtesy of R22 Tout-Monde. 

Uprising in Pakistan

by Tariq Ali

The story of what happened in 1968 in Pakistan is often forgotten, but is yet another proof that the revolutionary moment was global. In that year, following a long period of tumult, a radical coal...

Street-Fighting Years

by Tariq Ali

The 1960s were a time of tumult and radicalism. Street Fighting Years captures the era’s mood and energy, its hope and its passion. In this, the first of his memoirs, Tariq Ali tracks the growing s...

If They Come in the Morning

by Angela Davis

The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Ange...

Algiers, Third World Capital

by Elaine Mokhtefi

Introduction by Jeremy Harding

Mokhtefi (née Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she served as a press adviser to the National Liberation Front in postwar Algiers, before going...

Down with Colonialism!

by Ho Chi Minh

Introduction by Walden Bello

Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, having defeated Japanese and French colonialist became a hate figure of the USA during the Vietnam War....

Revolution in the Revolution?

by Régis Debray

Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare...

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