| Audio File: 1968 - Year of Revolution (part 1) |
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| By Fred Weston | |
| Tuesday, 13 May 2008 | |
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Forty years ago the world was experiencing upheaval on a world scale that hadn't been seen for a generation. In the US opposition to the war in Vietnam gathered momentum, as it did in Britain. In Pakistan revolution was on the order of the day, and in Czechoslovakia we saw the Prague spring and Soviet Invasion. In May there was the glorious rising of the French working class, that saw 10 million workers down tools in a general strike. This weekend Socialist Appeal held a day school in London on the events of 1968. In this first session Fred Weston of the marxist.com editorial board talks on the Hot Autumn in Italy. The Hot Autumn - part 1
The Hot Autumn - part 2
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Classic Quotes
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"Marxism has won its historic significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because, far from rejecting the most valuable achievements of the bourgeois epoch, it has, on the contrary, assimilated and refashioned everything of value in the more than two thousand years of the development of human thought and culture. Only further work on this basis and in this direction, inspired by the practical experience of the proletarian dictatorship as the final stage in the struggle against every form of exploitation, can be recognised as the development of a genuine proletarian culture." - V.I. Lenin, On Proletarian Culture |
