STREET FIGHTING
YEARS
28 February Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah February Japan: Students join farmers in their fight against Sanri- closed because of continuing student unrest.
overthrown by putsch.
25 May China: Start of the Cultural 8 March Warsaw: Clashes between police and students.
16 March Vietnam: US troops massacre 799 villagers at My Lai.
3-10 December Berlin: Week of action against war in Vietnam. 17 March London: Mass demonstration in Grosvenor Square
Student leader Rudi Dutschke calls for an extra-parliamentary against US policy in Vietnam.
21 March Jordan: Battle
8 January Vietnam: Start of US offensive, of Karameh is first
3 January Czechoslovakia: Alexander Dub- 14 May Paris: Beginning of peace talks between US and Vietnacek elected first secretary of CP, herald-
22 May France: General strike involves 8 million workers.
29 January Japan: Student unrest begins in 27 May France: Publication of "Grenelle Accords" between bosses and unions on minimum guaranteed wage, workhours, retire-
30 January Vietnam: National Liberation Front (NLF) launches ment age and trade-union rights. Rejected by rank-and-file.
Senegal: Following general strike in schools and universities the
17-18 February Berlin: International Vietnam solidarity demon- army intervenes on campus. Several dead.
16 27 February Spanish state: Universities of Madrid and Valencia 29 May France: President General Charles de Gaulle "disappears"
for several hours to Baden-Baden to ascertain loyalty of top zuka aırport.
opposition.
1967 major armed confron-
486,000 troops sent.
tation between Israeli
5 February Shanghai : Proclamation of a forces and the Palestine people's commune.
24 February China: Zhou En Lai demands an end to excessive
22 March Paris: Students occupy administration
21 April Greece: Military coup détat.
25 April Bolivia: Régis Debray, left-wing French writer visiting pus demanding release
Che Guevara, imprisoned
16 May USSR: Alexander Solzhenitsyn protests against censorafter anti-US imperialship at Soviet writers' congress.
22 May Egypt: President Nasser decides to blockade Gulf of ism demo. "22 March
Movement" is born.
29 March Brazil: Two students killed by police in Rio de Janeiro.
LUTES
31 March USA: Johnson announces partial end to bombing of North
Vietnam and withdraws from presidential race.
3 April France: Council of Ministers adopts a proposal introducing criteria of selection for university entrance.
4 April USA: Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis. Serious riots in several cities
5 April Czechoslovakia: Dubcek grants freedom of the press.
11 April West Germany: assassination attempt against Rudi
Dutschke provokes violent student demos.
20 April Britain: Tory MP Enoch Powell makes his famous antiimmigration "rivers of blood" speech.
workers and 6,000 students demonstrate against US air bases.
12-24 July USA: Black revolts in Newark and Detroit. Black Pan-
26/27 April USA: Following international student strike against thers organise urban guerrilla warfare groups.
the war, students at Columbia University, New York occupy
30 July Havana: Organization of Latin American Solidarity -
27 April Britain: 1967 Abortion Act comes into force.
1 September China: Mao Zedong supports Zhou En Lai and con-
30 April Spanish state: Thousands of students join rallies called by demns the ultra left. Return to calm.
the Workers' Commissions.
9 October Bolivia: Che Guevara killed in captivity.
3 May Paris: Students locked out from Nanterre retreat to the Sor-
21 October International demonstrations in Washington (25,000), bonne. Dean calls police to evict them and close Sorbonne.
London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Amsterdam and Tokyo
10 May Paris: Barricades built in Paris streets by students against against the Vietnam War.
police "cleaning out" the university area (Latin Quarter).
13 November Japan: Student demonstration at Haneda airport
13 May France: General strike. Hundreds of thousands of workers, against prime minister's departure to US.
students and school students march in Paris and provincial cities. Students re-occupy the Sorbonne.
1968 ing "Prague Spring"
medical schools.
Tet Offensive.
International Viewpoint #142 • May 30, 1988 resistance. 27 May Nigeria:
Civil war sparked off by secession of the Ibo-dominated south-east part of the country
(Biafra). 5-10 June Six Day
War: victory for
Israel which occupies Sinai,
Jerusalem, West
Bank, and Golan 9 July Japan: 40,000 mese NLF.
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30 May France: De Gaulle dissolves National 16 November Ireland: 15,000 march in defi-
Assembly. Hundreds of thousands of Gaullists
31 May Senegal: General strike called but de- 22 November Ireland: Package of civil rights
27 July Portugal: Death of former dictator Salazar.
26 August USA: National march for abortion rights.
17-22 September Jordan: "Black September" Crackdown on
Palestinians. Thousands dead in Amman.
28 September Egypt: Nasser dies.
21 October Japan: Anti-Vietnam war actions by students and 8 October USSR: Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize.
4 November Chile: Unidad Popular candidate Salvador Allende
27 October London: 100,000 demonstrate against Vietnam War.
Students occupy London School of Economics. 17 December Poland: Increasing unrest. Gierek replaces Gomul-
1 November Vietnam: end to American bombing of North.
5 November USA: Richard Nixon elected president. 28 December Spanish state: Six Basque nationalists sentenced to
12 November Italy: Nationwide student protests. death in Burgos trial. Franco commutes sentence to 30 years im 17
14 November Italy: General strike by 12 million workers.
May 30, 1988 • #142 International Viewpoint army generals.
demonstrate their support in Paris.
68-88 FEATURE ance of ban on all demos in the Six
Counties.
reforms announced by Northern prime clared illegal.
May/June Britain: Women workers at Ford's Dagenham strike for equal bonus ratings with
1969 male workers.
6 June USA: Presidential candidate Robert
(Bobby) Kennedy assassinated.
8 June Italy: Police remove occupying students
16 January Czechoslovakia: Jan Palach burns from university building in Milan.
10 June Paris: School student Gilles Tautin is drowned in the Seine near the Renault-Flins
19 January Japan: Police expel radical stufactory after clashes with the police.
12 June France: All street demonstrations banned during election campaign. 22 March
Movement and 7 far left groups, including the
22 January Spanish state: Franco dictatorship
JCR, banned.
16 June Paris: Sorbonne evacuated in surprise attack.
17 April Ireland: Bernadette Devlin elected to Westminster.
18 June France: return to work in most engineering and car
Czechoslovakia: Dubcek removed from leadership of CP
27 April France: De Gaulle resigns after defeat in constitutional
22 June Brazil: Students battle with police in Rio de Janeiro.
28 June USA: Police attack solidarity rally with French students
6 May France: Alain Krivine candidate in presidential elections.
18 May Britain: National demo for equal rights for women.
30 June France: legislative elections. De Gaulle's party, the UDR,
1 June France: Krivine gets 1% of vote (249,000 votes).
wins by an overwhelming majority.
5-7 June USSR: International conference of Communist Parties.
4 July USA: Berkeley students win right to mass rally.
Italians refuse to vote for main document.
10 July France: Alain Krivine arrested for activity in the now
21 July US astronaut Neil Armstrong is first person on the moon.
16 July Czechoslovakia: Dubcek government warned by USSR that its liberalization policy is unacceptable.
23 July Mexico: Start of student unrest.
24 July France: Amnesty law for Algerian war crimes.
25 July Vatican: Pope confirms Church ban on contraception.
26-27 July Mexico City: Violent clashes in Mexico between police and students, 17 dead.
27 July Czechoslovakia: Dubcek affirms his policies.
21 August Czechoslovakia: Invasion by Warsaw Pact forces.
13 September Czechoslovakia: Press censorship reintroduced.
18 September Mexico City: Army invades university, then referendum. 12 August Ireland:
"Battle of the Bogside" in Derry provoked by Loyalist demonstrations. 14 August Ireland:
British troops sent into the Six
Counties. 21 August USA:
Woodstock pop festival. 1 September Britain:
200,000 hear Bob minister.
1 January Ireland:
Belfast to Dungannon civil rights march.
himself to death in the centre of Prague in protest against the "de-liberalization".
dent organization Zengakuren from Tokyo university buildings. Provoke nationwide student occupations.
decrees state of emergency.
POUVOIR
PORULA RE
RETOUR people killed, many
2 October Mexico
1 September Libya: Kadhafi leads coup d'état by Council of the
ALA NORMALE...
City: More than 300
15 October USA: Millions participate in moratorium on Vietnam.
killed in student/
Massive demonstrations against war in New York, Boston and police clashes at Plaza des Tres Culturas.
17 November Japan: Massive, violent demonstration by students
5 October Ireland: first and workers against agreements on US use of Okinawa island.
occupied Six Counfrom winners' podium.
workers in Tokyo.
Dylan at Isle of
Wight pop festival.
Revolution.
Washington.
1970 ka as first secretary.
prisonment. *
18 March Kampuchea: Norodom Sihanouk toppled and replaced by General Lon Nol.
26 June Ireland: Bernadette Devlin
1936, it was 21,234, and in 1947, it was
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These figures explain the momentary fright and disarray of more than one "top leaders of the Gaullist state. Is this simplis tic? Look at the memoirs and biographies. These prefects, ministers or top servants of the state have a sense of the relationship of forces and power. In any case, they have
LE POUVOIR» more than those recycled "leftists" who have said a retroactive "farewell to the proletariat." This view represents nothing more than an abdication and throws absolutely no light on how society today (and in 1968) resembles or differs that of the inter-