Archive of 1968

In the Soviet Union, 1968 marked the end of reformist optimism and the beginning of a more cynical era.  

William Booth on 1968 in Mexico

On 27 May 1968, Dakar University students went on strike and blocked the campus. The protests were violently suppressed, the poor neighbourhoods in the vicinity of the university were immediately set ablaze, and the only existing workers' union called for a full-scale strike. For three days Senegal was engulfed in riots and scenes of plundering. May 1968 in Dakar was a defining moment in the political history of Senegal.

In 1968, Carlos Fonseca and the FSLN adopted a new strategic approach, laying the groundwork for the 1979 revolution. 

Protests and conflicts on the African continent throughout the 1960s had their own internal dynamics but were also linked closely with wider international events and developments.

Ian Birchall reviews Opening the Gates, on the historic 1970s struggles at the Lip watch factory in Besançon.

Articles from a July 1968 edition of Intercontinental Press — on the French May, the Prague Spring, and repression in Greece — register the immediate response of the Fourth International to some of the political upheavals that defined that year.  

Ole Grünbaum, a key figure of Denmark's 1960s youth movement, describes the shift from consciousness raising to practical social experimentation occurring in 1968. 

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 preliminary analysis of May 1968, written in a 1969 letter to Maria Antonietta Macciocchi.