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Paris May 68 (A6)

Paris May 68 (A6)

SKU: 9781914567407

$7.50
Publisher: Active Distribution
Author: Maurice Brinton
Publisher: Active Distribution
ISBN: 9781914567407
Published: 2024
Format: Paperback
Size: 4.1 x 5.8
Page count: 114

This is an eye-witness account of two weeks spent in Paris during, May 1968. It is what one person saw, heard or discovered during that short period. The account has no pretence at comprehensives. It has been written and produced in haste, its purpose being to inform rather than to analyze – and to inform quickly.


The French events have a significance that extends far beyond the frontiers of modern France. They will leave their mark on the history of the second half of the 20th century. French bourgeois society has just been shaken to its foundations.Whatever the outcome of the present struggle we must calmly take note of the fact that the political map of Western capitalist society will never be the same again. A whole epoch has just come to an end: the epoch during which people could say, with a semblance of verisimilitude, that ‘it couldn’t happen here’. Another epoch is starting: that in which people know that revolution is possible under the conditions of modern bureaucratic capitalism.

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