• Στην Γαλλία απλώνεται ένα κίνημα νεολαίας, με απόηχους του 1968, όπως εγραφεν τζαι ο Tariq Ali..

·         Στην Γαλλία απλώνεται ένα κίνημα νεολαίας, με απόηχους του 1968, όπως εγραφεν τζαι ο Tareg Ali..

Τζαι εσιεις τζαι μερικούς «που σου νεφκω που παεις» να πουλούν φτηνιάρικο ρατσισμό...Ενας Βαλανιδης είδε «ορδές από Άραβες τζαι Αφρικανούς». Βόσκοντας στα απονερα της ακροδεξιάς μπροστά στην αδυναμία να κατανοήσει κανείς την Ιστορια. Εν καλά να εχουμεν τζαι καταγραμμένη την εικόνα της ξεφτίλας..

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FROM TARIQ ALI;

ECHOES OF '68

A look at how today’s growing student protests in France echo those of 1968

‘You have put imagination in the seat of power…’ Jean-Paul Sartre

Contrary to what Marx said, history doesn’t repeat itself; it echoes. That is what is happening in France today. Once again, the young French are showing the way. One can only admire the courage and camaraderie on display in the country. The school students have been brutally attacked by Macron’s cops, fighting back when necessary and continuing to protest and demand changes to the disaster that is the French education system today. In 1968, the movement started in similar fashion on 22 March in Nanterre. Police brutality brought more people out on the streets and on 10 May, the famous night of the barricades on the Left bank, the CRS/SS were beaten back.

The solidarity movement with the Vietnamese struggle against the United States had already radicalised a significant layer of the population and the link with students’ economic demands took place very quickly. At that time, students in Berlin and Rome were also on the march for Vietnam. In London there had been a violent clash in Grosvenor Square where 30,000 people had been prevented by mounted policeman from reaching the US Embassy. On that demonstration there were also contingents from the German SDS (Socialist German Students) carrying staves and the JCR (Young Communist Revolutionaries) from France led by Alain Krivine. The mood was militant. A group of us were preparing a broadsheet to launch a socialist left paper, The Black Dwarf. In May ’68, 10 million works in France erupted with a general strike, the largest ever in the history of capitalism. Eric Hobsbawm sent a despatch to the Dwarf. Jean-Jaques Lebel sent a report scribbled on the barricades, delivered to us by a returning comrade the following day. The cover of the first issue became (and remains) an icon. The main demand of workers and students was for socialism and revolution. It was a challenge to the rule of capital.