Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
By Porton, Richard As every cinephile knows, in May 1968 the Cannes Film Festival was brought to a halt by a group of activist filmmakers who interrupted the usual blithe spectacle and expressed solidarity with the rumblings from students that had begun to reverberate in Paris.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
If life and living changed in Paris in May 1968 for the rest of the world, it took a little longer in Northern Ireland . Forty years opposing camps judge it separately as ’ liberty or illusion ‘, and some a bit of both. Fascinating discursive interview of Paul Bew by Malachi O’Doherty… Bew expands reflectively on his reported comments at the John Hewett Summer School.
icWales (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
THE revolting students of Paris in May 1968 opined ‘Life Is Elsewhere’ and watching Cardiff City at Merthyr one could readily identify with those sentiments.
icWales (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
THE revolting students of Paris in May 1968 opined ‘Life Is Elsewhere’ and watching Cardiff City at Merthyr one could readily identify with those sentiments.
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
As all of the famous events of May 1968 go on, the new #1 song in America is: The Graduate has been canonized as an important cultural marker of the 60s (in ways never imagined back in the day ......
TACTICAL MUSEUM. Tokyo (Free subscription) | 29/05/2008
As ArtForum dedicates its current issue to gazing back at the events of May 1968 I have noticed a decidely C21st runnel being formed around issues and languages of space, E.T's, alchemy, the Middle Ages, ecological catastrophe and other related...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Forty years ago this month the world changed with students and workers taking to the streets of Paris to call for revolution. Capitalism was at the height of its post war boom yet these folks were calling for its overthrow. A conference was held this month in England to celebrate 1968 And All That. SEE: MLK Day Forty Years Ago 40 Years Later; The Society of the SpectacleFind blog posts, photos, events...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Our favourite Frenchman turns 40 today, May 28. He has great stories about how his parents were deeply involved in the revolutionary activity of Mai 1968, and that his mother had quite a time making her way through the barricaded streets to get to the maternity hospital to give birth to him.Glad all went well then. Much has changed in Paris since , but the same effervescence is present everywhere....
The New Centrist (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
[h/t Oliver Kamm] Noam Chomsky recently penned a short article on the 1968 uprisings for the New Statesman. In this article, the events of 1968 are presented as the impetus for human rights, “an international global solidarity movement,” and even environmentalism. In short, the social movements that exist today are a direct result of the events [...]
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
REVOLUTION was in the air during May 1968. From Beijing to Belfast and Paris to Prague, student protests shook the establishment. Even in Edinburgh the city's university h
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 18/05/2008
At the beginning of May 1968, Paris exploded like a bottle of champagne. Tens of thousands of students, burning with revolutionary fervour, marched on the Sorbonne, which had been shut by the police. As barricades went up and the riots began, my French friend Adrienne exclaimed: 'Right in the middle of Paris they think they can get away with beating kids and herding them into paddy wagons!' Having...
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
Thousands of French teachers and public sector workers have gone on strike in Paris to protest against job cuts and education reform. Estelle Youssouffa, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reporting from Paris, draws on similarities from forty years ago when a social revolution shook the nation in the 1960s and education and reform thrived in the heart [...]
Spurious (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
He was, said Derrida, involved 'body and soul' in the Events. Michel Leiris, in his journals, laughed at him: what was he doing running along with the students? Couldn't he see it would lead nowhere? Levinas, his closest friend, wrote,...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
For two astonishing weeks in May, an entire nation was caught up in a frenzy of self-examination. It is still not easy, 40 years later, to discern what it was all about.
Division of Labour (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
City Journal has a retrospective of of the 1968 student protests, most notably the May 1968 Paris unrest. Six accomplished contributors talk about the political, sexual, journalistic, and other cultural inheritances of the 60's. I don't pretend to know a...
