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1968

1968 and the troubled birth of the Turkish left

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

The 1960s and 1970s were years of the most intense class struggle in modern Turkish history.1 It was a period bookended by two military coups. The first, in 1960, opened up a liberal period in which socialist ideas flourished and… Continue Reading →

Article 1968, Turkey

The Prague Spring of 1968: a glimpse of socialism?

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

Fifty years ago Russian tanks rolled across the Czechoslovakian border. They brought the upheavals of 1968, that year of global revolt against war, oppression and capitalism, into the heart of officially “socialist” Eastern Europe.1 Students took to the streets, fought… Continue Reading →

Article 1968, Chris Harman, Czechoslovakia, state capitalism

Education, capitalism and the student revolt

Posted on 19th April 2018 by Camilla

The pamphlet Education, Capitalism and the Student Revolt, chapters one and four of which are reproduced here, was written by Chris Harman, Richard Kuper, Dave Clark, Andrew Sayers and Martin Shaw, five student members of the International Socialism group (forerunner… Continue Reading →

Article 1968, Students

Remembering “Rivers of Blood”

Posted on 12th April 2018 by Camilla

On 20 April 1968 Enoch Powell gave a talk in a small upstairs room to 85 Tories in Birmingham’s Midland Hotel. The words of this Conservative shadow minister and MP for nearby Wolverhampton South West were not directed towards these… Continue Reading →

Article 1968, Anti-racism, Enoch Powell

Changing the world, changing ourselves

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

A review of Celia Hughes, Young Lives on the Left: Sixties Activism and the Liberation of the Self (Manchester University Press, 2015), £70 For those who argue that women and men make history, it makes sense to assess the 1968… Continue Reading →

Book reviews 1968

Seizing the time: Tony Cliff and 1968

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

Revolutionaries do not determine events, nor do they predict them.1 Lenin was surprised by both 1905 and 1917. What revolutionaries can do is understand events and develop a strategy to take advantage of them. “All revolutions in history have begun… Continue Reading →

Analysis 1968, Tony Cliff

Unfinished business: Martin Luther King in Memphis

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

On the fortieth anniversary of his assassination, eulogies on the life of Martin Luther King Jr come cheap, and often from the most unlikely quarters. The gesture is by now an almost obligatory one for American politicians, including many who… Continue Reading →

Analysis 1968, Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King

May 1968 across the decades

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

The French events of May 1968 were a profound shock to General de Gaulle’s ten-year presidency and the French state. A student rebellion at the prestigious University of Paris sparked a general strike of roughly ten million workers. Twenty years… Continue Reading →

Analysis 1968

Archive: Forty years for Pandora

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

Why celebrate the anniversary of 1968? Media commentators treat the year as one of student rebellion and youthful excess, but it was much more than that, as the late David Widgery explained in this article, written on the tenth anniversary… Continue Reading →

Analysis 1968

1968: An extraordinary year

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

January 1: US opinion polls show support for war and re-election of President Lyndon Johnson. 17: Harold Wilson’s Labour government announces major cuts package. 250 students sit in at Aston University. 22: Illegal assembly by 800 philosophy students in fascist… Continue Reading →

Analysis 1968
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