1968

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1968, after 40 years

Friday 13th June

1968: the global legacy

Fred Halliday, 13 June 2008
The celebration of a year of protest misses its silences and failures - and thus its true impact
Friday 2nd May

The 1968 debate in Germany

Paul Hockenos, 2 May 2008

German collective memory is in overdrive. But the most valuable legacy of the protest years is being forgotten

Wednesday 30th April

Hoang Minh Chinh: the honourable dissident

Sophie Quinn-Judge, 30 April 2008
Vietnam’s official memory has no place for Hoang Minh Chinh, an honourable critic who embraced democracy
Monday 28th April

May ‘68: France's politics of memory

Patrice de Beer, 28 April 2008
The fortieth anniversary of the student revolt traps the French in the cunning of history
Friday 11th April

Regaining the kinetics of 1968

Todd Gitlin, 11 April 2008
An Italian film depicting brothers torn by political commitment captures the heart of an epic year
Thursday 6th March

The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968

Neal Ascherson, 6 March 2008
The spark of the great student revolts of 1968 ignited in Warsaw. Neal Ascherson traces - and recalls - the "Polish March" (archive)
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