The building of an independent
revolutionary movement that can inspire
and lead the challenge for power itself
remains the most crucial lesson from 1968
1968 Revolution
40 pages with photos and illustrations
In 1968, a global revolutionary upsurge shook ruling elites from Paris to Berlin, from Vietnam to Czechoslovakia. A World to Win’s new publication examines the key events of that year and asks what lessons can be learned for today. It concludes that today’s world political and economic crisis is creating conditions for a new revolt that can pick up the baton of 1968.
Contents:
- A new breaking point - 40 years on
- How Tet turned the war in Vietnam
- The Prague Spring - beginning of the end for Stalinism
- Timeline 1968
- Revolution in France: betrayed but not defeated
- Learning from history
- Martin Luther King’s unfinished business
- The German student revolt
