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Understanding the Spanish 68 requires an understanding of the rise of anti-Francoism in the previous years and its evolution after the state of exception declared in January 1969.

Hannah Proctor on the influence of radical psychiatry on the events of May '68.

Peace activist Christine Ahn condemns the dangerous, opportunistic response to Trump's North Korea talks from American liberals. 

The refugees, migrants, sans-papiers, and people in solidarity occupying Paris-8 University to demand documents and housing for all denounce the manipulations of the French state. 

Today in Argentina we see a battle for political spirituality in the streets, in houses, in beds, and in schools.

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

Politicans around the world associate themselves with popular sports, but in South America the relationship between politicians and football has often been much stronger than that.

For much of the 20th century there was a general trend towards greater wealth equality. That is now set in reverse, with wealth much more unequally distributed than incomes. How we can solve his crisis of wealth? This article, by Duncan McCann and Stewart Lansley, argues that the time is right for Citizens' Wealth Funds.

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. 

14 June 2018 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Che Guevara. Below is a lecture delivered by Martínez Heredia, one of Cuba’s leading public intellectuals, at the Center for the Study of Che Guevara in March 2015, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Guevara’s 'Man and Socialism in Cuba'.