Global imagination of 1968 : revolution and counterrevolution : Katsiaficas, George N., 1949- author

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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Tables and Maps; Foreword by Carlos Muñoz; Preface by Kathleen Cleaver; Introduction; Chapter 1: The New Left as a World-historical Movement; World-historical Moments; 1848, 1905, 1968: Historical Overview; The New Left: A Global Definition; Chapter 2: A Global Analysis of 1968; The Tet Offensive; Che’s Foco Theory; Student Movements of 1968; Asia; South Korea; China; Japan; The Philippines; Thailand; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Sri Lanka; Iran; The Arab World; Tunisia; Egypt; Iraq; Turkey; Pacific; Australia; New Zealand; Africa; Nigeria

SenegalSouth Africa; Congo-kinshasa; Ghana; Zimbabwe; Zambia; Ethiopia; Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-bissau; Burkina Faso; Europe; West Germany; Italy; Spain; The Netherlands; Denmark; Belgium; England/uk; Greece; Portugal; Eastern Europe: New Left vs. Old Left; Yugoslavia; Czechoslovakia; Poland; Latin America; Mexico; Columbia; Peru; Venezuela; Argentina; Uruguay; Brazil; Chile; Theology of Liberation; North America; Canada; The Caribbean; Jamaica; Barbados; Trinidad and Tobago; Bermuda; The United States; Onset of Counterrevolution; From Civil Rights to Revolutionary Internationalism

Emergence of Latino OppositionThe Working Class; Global Women’s Liberation; Chapter 3: Revolution in France? May 1968; Global Connections; Roots of the May Events; The Workers; The New Working Class; Capitalist Relations of Production; Cultural Poverty of Consumer Societies; The Political Meaning of May 1968: Internationalism and Self-management; Patriotism and Internationalism; Authoritarianism and Self-management; Limits of Spontaneity; Some Implications of May; Chapter 4: Revolution in the United States? May to September 1970; The Largest Strike in U.S. History; Black Panthers Go to Yale

The Campuses EruptMurder at Jackson State University; Form of the Strike; Legitimation Crisis; Tactical Innovations; Cultural Dimensions of the Crisis; Revolt Within the Military; Women’s General Strike; Latinos Mobilize; The Revolutionary Peoples’ Constitutional Convention; The Panthers Split; Workers and the Crisis; Restoration of Order; Chapter 5: The Global Imagination after 1968; Global Uprisings after 1968; Some Questions for Revolutionaries; A Centralized Party?; Premature Armed Struggle?; Psychic Thermidor; Reforms and Revolution; Rebellion or Revolution?

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