Posts tagged: 1968

"There Were No Teachers": Rossana Rossanda on May 68

In this excerpt from The Comrade from Milan, Rosanna Rossanda recounts her experiences of May 1968 between Italy and France.
Lettrism and the Youth Uprising of 68

A translation of Isidore Isou’s "Between Isou and Marcuse," published in the Lettrist journal Youth Uprising in the summer of 1968.
“Global 1968” on the African Continent

Africa should not be left blank on the map of scholarship that seeks to understand 1968 in a global perspective.
The Historic 1968 Struggle Against Columbia University

How a Black United Front in Harlem, the Students’ Afro American Society, and Students for a Democratic Society took on Columbia University, Mayor John Lindsay, the New York Times, the NYPD in 1968 — and won!
The Beginning of the End

An excerpt from Angelo Quatttrocchi's lyrical eyewitness account of May 1968 in Paris.
Workers Leaving the Factory: From May 68 to October 05

May 1968 stands at the precipice into which the historical labor movement will descend.
Macron Dreamed of Celebrating May ’68 — and Then Sent in the Riot Cops

What is Emmanuel Macron so afraid of, that would lead him to act so violently? Today living a little outside the system constitutes a threat to neoliberalism.
Rossana Rossanda: "Since ’68 the Italian Left has lost its bearings"

An interview with Rossana Rossanda on her life in politics and Italy today.
In Solidarity with the Students at Nanterre

The Mouvement du 22 mars, founded on 22 March 1968, was a Nanterre-based movement decisive to catalysing the student revolt that sparked the France-wide general strike of May–June 1968. Fifty years later, in this text former M22M militants express their solidarity with the students today under attack on this same campus.
The Rise of the Leninist Right

The success of the American far right in shifting the mainstream is built on the repressed strategies of one forgotten wing of 1968: a particular reading of Lenin’s theory of revolution.
Who I Was in 1968 and Other Confessions: an interview with Rossana Rossanda

The legendary figure of the Italian left discusses her new book, her coming to feminism, and her memories of 1968.