Posts tagged: 1968

It is Forbidden to Forbid: The Liberation of Desire in France After May 1968

Juliet Jacques and writer and curator Paul Clinton discuss the wave of queer radicalism that followed May 1968 in France.
Yugoslav Students in the 1968 Wave of Revolt: An Interview with Dragomir Olujić

"We were against the regime but not against socialism — we did not demand more socialism but a radically different socialism."
1968 and the Spanish State: The Year in its Context

Understanding the Spanish 68 requires an understanding of the rise of anti-Francoism in the previous years and its evolution after the state of exception declared in January 1969.
Mad World: Radical Psychiatry and 1968

Hannah Proctor on the influence of radical psychiatry on the events of May '68.
The Soviet '68

In the Soviet Union, 1968 marked the end of reformist optimism and the beginning of a more cynical era.
1968: An End and a Beginning for Mexico

William Booth on 1968 in Mexico
May 1968 in Senegal

On 27 May 1968, Dakar University students went on strike and blocked the campus. The protests were violently suppressed, the poor neighbourhoods in the vicinity of the university were immediately set ablaze, and the only existing workers' union called for a full-scale strike. For three days Senegal was engulfed in riots and scenes of plundering. May 1968 in Dakar was a defining moment in the political history of Senegal.
A Turning Point for the Sandinistas: Nicaragua’s 1968

In 1968, Carlos Fonseca and the FSLN adopted a new strategic approach, laying the groundwork for the 1979 revolution.
Africa’s 1968: Protests and Uprisings Across the Continent

Protests and conflicts on the African continent throughout the 1960s had their own internal dynamics but were also linked closely with wider international events and developments.
Socialism in One Factory?

Ian Birchall reviews Opening the Gates, on the historic 1970s struggles at the Lip watch factory in Besançon.
New Forms of Struggle: Selections from Intercontinental Press July 1968

Articles from a July 1968 edition of Intercontinental Press — on the French May, the Prague Spring, and repression in Greece — register the immediate response of the Fourth International to some of the political upheavals that defined that year.
Ole Grünbaum: Emigrate (February 1968)

Ole Grünbaum, a key figure of Denmark's 1960s youth movement, describes the shift from consciousness raising to practical social experimentation occurring in 1968.