Archive of Verso Books

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

"We, filmmakers, call on ourselves to bite, to film, and to defend this territory which is beaten and hits back."

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.

On the 50th anniversary of 1968, we present a collection of images from around the world captured during the global uprisings.

Tariq Ali and Angela Davis discuss the internationalist solidarity that animated the movements of 1968 around the world.