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May 1968
May 1968
John Berger: the nature of mass demonstrations
As we build for the People's Assembly national demonstration on 26 June, we republish John Berger's May 1968 article on the role of mass demonstrations in social change
France in 1968: myths, realities and unanswered questions
50 years on from the 1968 crisis, John Mullen gives an overview of events in France, the debates historians are having and the lessons today's anticapitalists should take
May ‘68: France on the cusp of revolution
Susan Ram looks back at the tumultuous events of May 1968, where students and workers united against the establishment, and asks what we can take from them today
After Windrush: this racist government must go - Counterfire Freesheet May 2018
Windrush, May 68, Palestine, UCU strike, Marx and more - Counterfire freesheet edition 025, May 2018
50 years after 1968: Storms raging in Macron’s France
Neither Macron and the bosses, nor France's working class have made a decisive breakthrough in recent weeks. But the movement is solid and imaginative, writes John Mullen in Paris
Is France heading for another May '68?
From student dissent to militant strikes and a radical alternative, the ingredients are there for mass rebellion, writes John Mullen
France, March 22nd: the mobilisation of the public sector begins
Across France, hundreds of thousands of people, spearheaded by combative rail workers, mobilise against Macron’s neoliberal assault on the public sector
May ’68 and the movement against Trump: a call for a united front
Rather than criticising people who are demonstrating for the first time, we should embrace them
A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world, writes Neil Faulkner