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"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."

In this extract from the first issue of The Black Dwarf, Jean-Jacques Lebel gives a vivid first-hand account of the events of May '68 in Paris

By ignoring African American intellectual history, many accounts of 1968 consolidate the very segregation 1960s youth were once so determined to undo.

Richard Seymour on the Israeli attacks on the protests in Gaza and murderous humanitarianism.

A conversation between Jean Paul Sartre and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, held in the midst of the 1968 May events. 

Educated by ’68, workers at the Besançon watch factory developed a transformative workplace democracy. For female employees, a new working-class feminism was vital in the fight against sexual harassment and the patriarchal union structures of the era.

Activist posters from 1968 movements around the world, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the uprisings.

70 years since the Nakba and the founding act of the state of Israel, Lynne Segal reflects on survival, resistance and memory.

“The legal recognition of the 1948 Nakbah as an act of ethnic cleansing would pave the way for some form of restitutive justice.”

To commemorate Nakba Day, we present an excerpt from Ilan Pappe’s book Ten Myths About Israel. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the radical Israeli historian examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel, including the myth that the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948.

In 1968, Suharto's authoritarian New Order regime obliterated the Indonesian Communist Party's efforts to rebuild after the 1965 massacre.