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Daniel Bensaïd's 1988 squib on the capitulation of soixante-huitard intellectuals. 

Asad Haider's left critique of "identity politics," a call for us to move beyond individual recognition to the collective struggle for an egalitarian society.

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.

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Nicaraguans are caught between the corrupt and repressive Ortega government and the traditional oligarchy, backed by the international right wing.

A playlist of songs that informed or express aspects of the theory and history presented in Mistaken Identity. 

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.

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. 

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.