1968 REBELLION

Pasolini a Venezia nel 1968 (foto Biennale ASAC ) As a life-long Communist Party of Italy (PCI) member, Pasolini's Marxist positions politically may have been farther left than the student movement of the 1960s. However, in his poem called "The PCI to the young generation" [Il PCI ai giovani], he appeared to criticize the protestors and side with the police in the lines: When yesterday at Valle Guilia you came to blows with the policemen I sympathized with the policemen! Because the policemen are the children of the poor However, in other examinations of the poem, it is not believable that Pasolini sided with the right-wing or the police actions themselves... he seemed to be making note of the self-contradictory nature of the current struggle, which featured the students: You have daddy’s boy faces You were born with silver spoons in your mouths. However Pasolini is also fairly clear: We obviously are in agreement against the police i...

The Rag Dolls, Germany's First Girl Group

photo (c) Ilse Jung Playing nearly every weekend in the industrial Ruhr Valley around Duisberg, Bochum, Dusseldorf area, the Rag Dolls were a phenomenon in the male-dominated "beatbands" genre. Sources: "THE RAG DOLLS" eine ziemlich unbekannte Gruppe aus dem Ruhrpott von 1965 , by Manfred Nitschke (Oct 24, 2017) Women, Power, Music, Remembering the Rag Dolls , by Heike Mund, DW (Aug 20, 2013) The Rag Dolls , Manfred Nitschke, The Beat Club All-Female Bands of the 1960s - Happy Women's History Month! , by Eric Brightwell The Rag Dolls , Ilse Jung

Dynamite Topples Power Transmission Lines At U.C. Berkeley

Power was disrupted at U.C. Berkeley and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on March 20th, 1968, when two 115,000 volt transmission lines were toppled. According to the House Committee on Un-American Activities Report on "Subversive Influences in Riots, Looting and Burning," the tower carrying the power lines was dynamited at 1:40 am, and power restored at 8am. No other news reports confirming this incident could be found online. Sources: " Subversive Influences in Riots, Looting and Burning ", Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities: House of Representatives, June 28, 1968, p2157

BBC "Students in Revolt" Program Airs in UK

BBC students in revolt. Photo by Jim Gray (c) Getty Images On June 13, 1968, the popular British broadcaster Robert McKenzie brought together student activists from across Europe, the United States, and Japan in a BBC television show entitled “Students in Revolt” to discuss their aims and objectives in the aftermath of the events in Paris the previous month.1 McKenzie compared the emergence of a “student class” to the emergence of the working class in the nineteenth century, arguing that in both Western and Eastern Europe, student activists were carrying their protest into the larger society, thereby “clearly influencing the political course of history.” The discussion featured such prominent student leaders as Daniel CohnBendit and Alan Geismar from France, Tariq Ali from Great Britain, Karl-Dietrich Wolff from West Germany, and Jan Kavan from Czechoslovakia, among others, who also insisted that they were not leaders but, rather, “megaphones” of a far larger movement that i...

Thousands of Students Protest at University in Belgrade

An outbreak of violence occurred on the night of June 2nd, 1968. Students who had been locked out of a popular concert venue protested by breaking the windows and doors of the venue and the police responded with a violent crackdown. Subsequently, the students retreated to their dorms and organized into a large protest movement overnight. On the morning of June 3rd, a neighborhood student action committee was formed. It called for a demonstration against police violence in the city center in front of parliament. Several thousand students took part in the demonstration, which was brutally attacked by the police. High-ranking politicians tried to calm the situation down, but failed. In the afternoon about 10,000 students then occupied all Faculties of Belgrade University, proclaiming a strike and the “Red University Karl Marx.” The students used loudspeakers to address people in the streets: “ We want action – enough with words! ” Sources: On this day in...

The “Battle on Tegeler Way” [Schlacht am Tegeler Weg] was a violent confrontation between the police and demonstrators. The demonstrators were mainly connected with the SDS [Students for Democratic Society] and the APO [Anti-Parliamentary Opposition], who had called for a protest on November 4, 1968 at Tegeler Way in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In addition to students, many workers and rockers were been among the demonstrators. This street battle is considered a major turning point in the history of the APO in the '68 movement and went down in the history of the political left in Germany. At the Battle of Tegeler Weg 130 police officers and 22 demonstrators were seriously injured. Sources: Schlacht am Tegeler Weg Wikipedia The long and winding May of 1968 (6): German student movement by Julius Gavroche, April 3, 2018 Schlacht am Tegeler Weg (NDR, 1988), Youtube Video

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