A chronology og the global 1968 protest (2024)

A CHRONOLOGY OF THE GLOBAL 1968 PROTEST (2010)

This chronology is/was the first and only comprehensive overview of protest events in the various European countries considering both Eastern and Western Europe. The data in the chronology has been checked through a rigorous peer-review process, during which experts on the 1968 protests in the individual countries listed checked the information.2 This chronology for the year 1968 is a revised and substantially expanded version, also comprising North-, Latin- and South America, as well as Asia and Africa. Although limited to the year 1968, it offers individual references and documentation for each event.

Protest in the US 1968-2018

Quite a few intellectuals have argued that the Left, perhaps with the exception of Latin America, has been in a constant state of crisis since 1968. Partly, it is argued, this is because any attempt at a broad mobilization has appeared futile in the light of the mass mobilization of the late 1960s, when, at certain moments, sections of the working class linked up with young middle class students in mass street protests in advanced capitalist countries.This discussion focuses on the 68 movement in the United States and its contemporary legacy. When compared to other advanced capitalist countries, what was specific about the US was of course the significance of how class and race were intertwined, and the role that the Black Power movement played. In addition, we did not see working class mobilization in the US to the same degree as was the case in, for example France or Italy.

1968: A REVOLUTION OF GREATER EXPECTATIONS An analysis of the global processes and local events occurred during 1968 MARTÍN MENÉNDEZ HIRAOKA

2018

“A long march through the institutions”1 was shouted in marches in Germany, “all power to the imagination”2 was chanted in Paris, “USA=SA=SS”3 was graffitied in the walls of Berlin, and “We are all German Jews”4 was heard in France and Italy. What these triumphant mottos represent is what is commonly referred to as ‘the revolution of 1968’, a cluster of rebellions mainly carried out by students in cities around the world that marched against antidemocratic and authoritarian regimes, hierarchical bureaucracies, communist totalitarianism, consumer society and, in general, contemporary culture. It is the culmination of diverse social and cultural processes and changes throughout the 60s. The degree of wide-ranging impact of 1968 is debated, some even argue that it is the “greatest and most dramatic, rapid and universal social transformation in human history”5. Nevertheless, what is most intriguing about 1968 is the intersection of its global, transnational and local components, which produce different experiences – and frustrating results – worldwide, topics we will study in the present essay.

The Routledge handbook of the global sixties: between protest and nation building

The Sixties, 2020

How 1968 Changed the World: Movements Making History, History Making Movements

1968: A Global Approach, 2020

As activists in social movements, we live in the shadow of the "long 1968", the wave of struggles that shook the world from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. This is as true in Prague or Derry, with their very different movement histories, as it is in Paris or Chicago, in Bologna or in Mexico City. How we challenge power today, what movements we ally with, how we think about possible futures and how we organise ourselves still depends on the decisive historical moment that was 1968. This article does not seek to celebrate (or condemn) 1968, but to understand a legacy which shapes our own movement landscapes-in order to be better able to think forward to another, more successful attempt at transformation.

1968 in Europe. A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977. Ed. by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharlot. Palgrave Macmillan

International Review of Social History 53:3, pp. , 2008

The Road to Democracy: The Political Legacy of “1968”

International Review of Social History, 2011

SummaryOver the past forty years, the social struggles of the “long 1960s” have been continuously reinterpreted, each interpretation allocating a new mix of relevance and irrelevance to the brief global uprising. This article is a contribution to one such interpretation: the small but growing body of literature on the central importance of experiments with democracy within movements of the 1960s. Rather than examining the transformative effect of 1960s movements on institutional politics or popular culture, this article examines the lasting transformation 1960s movements had on social-movement praxis. Based on seven years of ethnography within contemporary global movement networks, I argue that when viewed from within social-movement networks, we see that thepoliticallegacy of the 1960s lies in the lasting significance of movement experiments with democracy as part of a prefigurative strategy for social change that is still relevant today because it is still in practice today.

Revisting the global and local upheavals of 1968

Counterfutures, 2018

1968 was a year of momentous global revolt against elites in both East and West. This article argues that 1968 is noteworthy not so much for the events of 1968 in themselves, but for helping spawn or revive a broad variety of movements which continue to have wide-ranging repercussions today. This was particularly the case in Aotearoa where, by global standards, events in 1968 were tranquil, yet a prolonged spike in dissent developed afterwards during the long 1970s. Some contend that 1968 was an individualist and cultural revolt that sowed the seeds for neoliberalism. This article argues that such an interpretation neglects the strong collective, socialist, working class, and anti-colonial dimensions of 1968 and beyond. Neoliberalism was more of a reaction to 1968 than its product.

The Long 1968: Revisions and New Perspectives

Introduction: 1968 – the year that rocked whose world?

2018