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Did the events of 1968 reach Australia? Jon Piccini and Evan Smith on the "long '68" and the old and new left in Australia

Andy Merrifield discusses the influence of Guy Debord and the Situationist International on the events of May '68.

At least a decade before the “Global 68,” students in Guatemala and elsewhere around the world were leading their own political struggles and connecting them with others.

The radical newspaper The Black Dwarf played a pivotal role in the British left in the late '60s. In this introduction to the magazine by Tariq Ali, it's editor for the first years of its existence, Ali discusses the influences behind the formation of the magazine and the role its played in the events of 1968 in Britain.

Thai society was profoundly influenced by the wave of struggles throughout the world around 1968 — but there was a slight time-lag, with radicalisation reaching its peak in the 1970s.

"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.