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What do the French student movement, the strike in the SNCF, and the various movements in the public services really have in common?

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

Alex De Jong on the Philippines in the global '68

On the death of the influential left-wing political scientist.

Aldo Marchesi on '68 in Latin America

A Maoist critique of the East German university system published in 1968 by the Shanghai Red Guards.  

20 years after Suharto's fall, new movements in Indonesia are resuming a struggle against capital that had been buried by 33 years of dictatorship. 

Sophie Lewis on bodies, work and the misguided school of feminist abolitionism.

Asad Haider traces Spinoza’s question through the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and Stuart Hall, and argues that to make politics possible again we need to abandon the position of moral and political purity that can only rely on superstition. 

Luke Butterly reports on the work of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities for Reproductive Justice (MERJ) in organising around the upcoming Irish abortion referendum.

Sweden's 1968 can be most clearly registered in the context of a wave of radicalization that stretched from the 1950s to the 1980s.