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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"Demand the impossible": what the left should learn from 1968
The legacy of 1968 is about the future of a united Europe and the left.
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Published in: Home#MeToo and human liberation
"My hope is that now men will once again put at the forefront of their personal agenda the unlearning of...
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Published in: TransformationThe everyday power of movement activism
Activism is normal; what’s strange is that we don’t see it that way.
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Published in: HomeRethinking AI through the politics of 1968
We need to pursue a political philosophy that was embraced in '68, of living the new society through authentic...
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Published in: HomeThe Chomsky paradox: the responsibility of intellectuals, revisited
Locating Chomsky’s linguistics and politics ‘in their historical perspective’ sharpens many issues for their wider...
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Published in: Transformation1968: The revolution that will not die
How conservatives won the counter-revolution after 1968—and how they might lose.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Theodor Adorno and the Prague Spring 1968
There was nearly society-wide consensus that as a power, the communist party could create a more democratic and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Everything that is wrong is the fault of '68: regaining cultural hegemony by trashing the left
In the burgeoning literature on the populist right, smouldering resentment has so far not been sufficiently...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Left radicalism fifty years after 1968: the capitalist state and political science
We must grasp relations between politics, society and the economy more precisely, by appropriating the information...
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Published in: TransformationFifty years later, the spirit of the Catonsville Nine lives on
Those who burned hundreds of draft files to protest the Vietnam War deserve to be honored, remembered and emulated.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRebirth of a small dark stranger: The Black Dwarf, the British New Left, and 1968
The radical newspaper Black Dwarf burst onto the scene in 1968 with an iconic cover. It didn't last but its spirit lives on.
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Published in: oDR1968: a revolution too early to judge
The events of 1968 have been stripped of their meaning and are now more a symbol of capitulation than revolution....
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Published in: 50.50The spirit of 1968 is inextinguishable – even 50 years later
This rebellious era shaped radical activists – and aggressive capitalists. What can we learn from 1968, for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCool capitalism: changing the principles of protest
Advertising and marketing firms have helped to promote individuality through the image of 'cool', something that was...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA recipe for revolution: Could 1968 happen today?
‘A lack of imagination is not having the imagination to see what’s missing’ - in this week's Friday Essay, Robert...
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Published in: Home1968: the global legacy
"With the coming of the dawn, the promises of the night fade away". In politics, as in love, the old Spanish saying...