Posts tagged: 1968

Malaysia’s “Second Emergency” (1968–89)

The upsurge of armed struggle in Malaysia represents one of the lesser noticed repercussions of the 1968 developments in Vietnam and China.
Louis Althusser's Letter on the "May Events"

Louis Althusser's preliminary analysis of May 1968, written in a 1969 letter to Maria Antonietta Macciocchi.
Storm in the Philippines

Alex De Jong on the Philippines in the global '68
The May ’68 That Was Not May ’68: Latin America in the Global Sixties

Aldo Marchesi on '68 in Latin America
The Black Façade of the Universities of German Revisionism (1968)

A Maoist critique of the East German university system published in 1968 by the Shanghai Red Guards.
Sweden and the Long 1968

Sweden's 1968 can be most clearly registered in the context of a wave of radicalization that stretched from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Worldwide Youth Radicalization and the Tasks  of the Fourth International (1969)

A document from the Ninth World Congress of the Fourth International on the implications of the 1968 student uprisings for the Trotskyist movement.
Continuing '68

Daniel Bensaïd's 1988 squib on the capitulation of soixante-huitard intellectuals.
Post-68 Student Uprisings and the Rise of the Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Movement

Partly inspired by 1968 student uprisings around the world, the New Left in Morocco emerged as a revolutionary alternative to the traditional Communist parties and the nationalist movement.
A Hidden Struggle: China's Cultural Revolution in 1968

China's Cultural Revolution was a key reference point for huge numbers of activists in 1968, but by then the CR was all but over.
“Down with the Pipe and the Poodle!”: Yugoslavia, 1968

The events of June 1968 in Yugoslavia both revealed the contradictions of self-management socialism and affirmed the vitality of official socialist discourse as a language of critique.
The Long Japanese Sixties

A communist league of students founded in 1948 in Japan, the Zengakuren amassed power over two decades, creating tremendous tensions in the US-Japan Cold War alliance by challenging standard concepts of democracy, peace and the history of imperialism.