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.
In 1986, as in 1968, France saw a massive student movement which ultimately forced Jacques Chirac’s government to abandon plans for greater academic selection. Witness to both movements, Daniel Guérin's 1987 letter on the subject is timely as university occupations spread today.
Jan Willem Stutje describes Ernest Mandel's experiences in Berlin with Rudi Dutschke and on the barricades in Paris during 1968.
The 1960s explosions in Greece and Turkey were neither of the First or Third Worlds, the core or the periphery: they combined elements of both.
Did the events of 1968 reach Australia? Jon Piccini and Evan Smith on the "long '68" and the old and new left in Australia
Andy Merrifield discusses the influence of Guy Debord and the Situationist International on the events of May '68.
At least a decade before the “Global 68,” students in Guatemala and elsewhere around the world were leading their own political struggles and connecting them with others.
The radical newspaper The Black Dwarf played a pivotal role in the British left in the late '60s. In this introduction to the magazine by Tariq Ali, it's editor for the first years of its existence, Ali discusses the influences behind the formation of the magazine and the role its played in the events of 1968 in Britain.
Thai society was profoundly influenced by the wave of struggles throughout the world around 1968 — but there was a slight time-lag, with radicalisation reaching its peak in the 1970s.
"We, filmmakers, call on ourselves to bite, to film, and to defend this territory which is beaten and hits back."
A reading list to celebrate works of and inspired by the Situationist International, on the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 uprisings.
In 1969, The Black Dwarf published an issue on "The Year of the Militant Woman". Reproduced below is the centrepiece article of the issue, Rowbotham's powerful manifesto of women's liberation - an article which broke new ground on the left in Britain. As Rowbotham wrote later, "everyday details such as these were not part of the language of politics in 1969."