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  1. Becoming a Revolutionary
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  2. The Beginning of an Era
    On the May 1968 revolt in France

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
  3. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  4. Chicago '68
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
  5. Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Political activist and politician, active in France and Germany. A student leader during the May 1968 revolt in France. (Born 1945).
  6. Democracy is in the Streets 
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
  7. France Spring 1968
    Masses in motion Ideas in free flow

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  8. French Revolution 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Seale and McConville set out to relate what happened during the May 1968 revolt in France, to set the explosion in its context of French politics, and to single out what they take to be the original and creative features of the situation.
  9. General Strike France 1968 
    A factory-by-factory account

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
  10. Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
  11. The Great Conspiracy Trial
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  12. Hoffman, Abbie
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). (1936-1989).
  13. The Imagination of the New Left
    A Global Analysis of 1968

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Brings to life the social movements and events of the 1960s that made it a period of world-historical importance: the Prague Spring; the student movements in Mexico, Japan, Sri Lanka, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Spain; the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and guerrilla movements in Latin America; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the assassination of Martin Luther King; and the near-revolution in France of May 1968.
  14. "Intersectionality" in Real Life
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Loretta Ross. Loretta Ross is National Coordinator of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a network of 80 organizations.
  15. The Legacy of 1968
    Against The Current vol. 136

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In 1989, the world systems theorists Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein wrote the following five short sentences: “There have only been two world revolutions. One took place in 1848. The second took place in 1968. Both were historical failures. Both transformed the world.”
  16. Long March, Short Spring 
    The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An examination of the world student rebellions of the late 1960s.
  17. A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
  18. May 1968 Documents
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
  19. May 1968 Graffiti
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    "Don't consume Marx, live him."
  20. May '68 Revisited
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Mitch Abidor recently spent weeks in France tracking down people who came of age politically in May 1968, to ask them how they viewed that experience, then and now. He went out of his way (with 1–2 exceptions) to talk to people "unknown," in contrast to the "stars" who feature in so many accounts of May. He talked with anarchists, Trotskyists, Stalinists, and even anarchists who had become Stalinists later. We publish this short summary of his results in Insurgent Notes because we like his direct, unvarnished access to participants, while taking our distance from some of his interpretations, which are subject to debate. We (the editors of Insurgent Notes) found Mitch's results sobering, if not downright deflating, because his subjects across the board say that the French working class in May 1968 was not revolutionary.
  21. My 1968 in the Heartland
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    “Ezekiel's brother got arrested. He’s a Communist!”
  22. My Year of Transition
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
  23. The New Left at 40
    Legacy and Continuity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A collection of memoirs and commentaries.
  24. 1968 
    Marching in the Streets

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    1968: Marching in the Streets is a dynamic time line of the year that revolution swept the planet. With present tense prose, cartoons, and photographs, Tariq Ali and Susan Watkins chronicle a year that saw everything from the assassinations of Che Guevara, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to KKK death threats against 70-year-old philosopher Herbert Marcuse.
  25. Noam Chomsky on 1968
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky explores the milestones achieved in this monumental year, including human and ethnic rights, global solidarity, environmental concern, etc. Despite simultaneously tragic realities of 1968, the results have been long-lasting and positive.
  26. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  27. On May '68
    Against The Current vol. 136

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Michael Löwy. Michael Löwy is the author of numerous works on socialist thought from Marx to the present as well as on liberation theology in Latin America.
  28. Paris: May 1968
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    This is an eyewitness account of two weeks spent in Paris during May 1968. It is what one person saw, heard or discovered during that short period.
  29. Protests of 1968
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The Protests of 1968 consisted of a worldwide series of protests, largely led by students and workers.
  30. Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
  31. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
  32. The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In what ways does the Occupy movement of 2011 resemble the French Situationists of the 1960s?
  33. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  34. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  35. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
  36. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  37. Survivors
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The enormous role played by Jews in the events of May 1968 in Paris and their aftermath is striking. All currents of the far left, anarchist, Trotskyist, Maoist had Jews among their primary leaders. Though they did not act as Jews, that they were Jews, and occupied a particular place in post-war French society because of this, cannot but have weighed in their participation.
  38. A Time for Learning
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I don't recall being aware of the events in France in May-June 1968. I was in college, beginning to get radicalized on several fronts, notably the war. Something called the “Free University” was started in Washington, D.C., and I signed up for a class on communes. I remember well a presentation that spring, in which the speaker kept referring to “the Establishment.”
  39. Trial
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  40. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  41. Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
  42. The Year of Awakening
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?

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