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Tag Archives: May 68
Anarchists and anarchy in May 68
Reflections on anarchism in france’s May 68, by David Porter and posted at the Anarchist Library.
For May 68 as a permanent possibility, for a May 2018
Numerous calls have been made in france not to celebrate May 68, but to have it burn again in 2018. These calls have in turn been circulated beyond france. From lespaves.net, an invitation for a beautiful May in Paris …
The winds of May 68 in France: the Larzac
An often forgotten or ignored dimension of May 68 were france’s peasant movements, which preceded 1968 and would continue after the student movement and general strike came to an end. The Larzac protest and land occupation against government plans to … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, Joseph Bové, Larzac, May 68, Occupy the Land
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The winds of May 68 in France: The LIP factory takeover
France’s May of 1968 brought on the largest industrial strike in the history of modern capitalism. What began as a student movement quickly overflowed the walls of the universities to spread throughout french society, with hundreds of factories not only … Continue reading
Feminism and beyond in May 68
France’s May 68 not only created space for the emergence of a radical gay movement in the country (with the FHAR), but a parallel feminist movement as well, as expressed in the Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF). We share a … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, france, Françoise Picq, LGBTQI, May 68, Paul B. Preciado, transfeminism
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The long and winding May of 1968 (7): Argentina’s Uprising
We share a study by James P. Brennan, of the 1969 uprising in the Argentine city of Cordoba, known as the Cordobazo, which saw students and workers rise up against the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía with a series … Continue reading
The long and winding May of 1968 (6): German student movement
We share below Manfred Buddeberg’s essay, The Student Movement in West Germany, written at the height of events in 1968 (From International Socialism, No.33, Summer 1968, and translated by Jennifer Bell, and available at the site marxists.org).
The long and winding May of 1968 (5): Japanese Anarchism 1960s
To share, a brief account of the anarchist movement in the 1960s of japan, by Michael Schmidt, followed by the third chapter of John Crump’s essay, The Anarchist Movement in Japan, 1906–1996.
Was there something queer about May 68?: The FHAR and Guy Hocquenghem
Workers of the world, masturbate! Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire slogan We should put into practice the truth that there is no revolutionary subject—there is no subject at all. There are only historical drives that ruffle this or that part of our … Continue reading
Thinking through May 68: Murray Bookchin
From Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog … Lately I have been focusing on recent events in France – the conclusion to the Tarnac trial and the police attack on the ZAD autonomous zone near Nantes. Now it is time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading →