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, by FUENTES Pedro
The fiftieth anniversary of May ‘68, like the centennial of the Russian Revolution, is far from a mere ritual commemoration. Both mark high points of the struggle of the workers for their self-emancipation, and their lessons are incorporated into our history and give continuity to the struggle (...)
, by NESS Immanuel
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - For the first time in generations, people are challenging the view that a free-market order – the system that dominates the globe today – is the destiny of all nations. The free market’s uncanny ability to enrich the elite, coupled with its inability to soften the sharp (...)
, by CHATTOPADHYAY Kunal
Presentation at the Left Forum, New York, 18 April, 2009 on the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.
See on ESSDF: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest – 1500 to the Present.
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I am glad to be able to speak here, at the Left (...)
, by AZZELINI Dario, NESS Immanuel
The editors consider workers councils as the definitive form of democratic labor control. Worker councils, seen as worker control over the economic resources that are vital to their lives, has had a prodigious history as one of the most dramatic forms of radical working-class action against (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Almost nowhere are the labour movement and the left prepared to respond to the world economic crisis even as the latter deepens. Today’s economic crisis and labour’s response cannot be a replay of the 1930s and yet one can learn from that historical experience. The left around the world (...)
Dear friends and colleagues,
Please allow me to draw your attention to my new book: Workers of the World (ISBN 978 90 04 16683 7). I think that this is the most important thing that I have written thus far.
With the fourteen studies offered in this volume, I want to contribute to a (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, NESS Immanuel
Blackwell Publishing’s presentation:
About the Encyclopedia
This definitive 8-volume reference is a comprehensive print and electronic resource covering the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years – throughout the modern era of mass movements. The first historical (...)
, by NESS Immanuel
“Introduction” from Immanuel Ness, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, Malde, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2009.
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8464-9 / HB / 7 VOLUMES + INDEX VOLUME, 4005 pages.
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Introduction
This encyclopedia (...)
, by ALI Tariq
We continue our series “1968, Forty Years Later” with the political activist, novelist and historian, Tariq Ali. Back in the 1960s, with the Vietnam War at its height, Tariq Ali earned a national reputation through debates with figures like Henry Kissinger and then-British Foreign Secretary (...)
, by ALI Tariq
A much shorter version of this article was publised by The Nation. See: May ’68: Where has all the rage gone?
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It arose in Vietnam, and then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. The signs and (...)
, by ALI Tariq
In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
[Note A much shorter version of this article was publised by The Nation. See: 1968 Revisited: Storming Heaven ]
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, by ROSSANDA Rossana
In this excerpt from The Comrade from Milan , Rosanna Rossanda recounts her experiences of May 1968 between Italy and France.
The occupied Odéon, May 1968. via Wikimedia Commons.
Everything was happening very fast: in Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, China — which was coming to the end of the (...)
, by MANDEL Ernest
The revolutionary wave of May 1968 constitutes an immense reservoir of social experience. The inventory of this experience is as yet far from complete. What characterized that wave was precisely the irruption onto the historical stage of the creative energy of the masses, multiplying forms of (...)
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