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This book brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles. With discussions of more than fifty countries, Katsiaficas articulates an understanding that is neither bounded by national and continental divides nor focused on "Great Men and Women." Millions of people went into the streets, and their aspirations were remarkably similar. From the Prague revolt against Soviet communism to the French May uprising, the Vietnam Tet offensive, African anticolonial insurgencies, the civil rights movement, and campus eruptions in Latin America, Yugoslavia, the United States, and beyond, this book portrays the movements of the 1960s as intuitively tied together. Student movements challenged authorities in almost every country, giving the insurgency a global character, and contemporary feminist, Latino, and gay liberation movements all came to life. A focus on the French general strike of May 1968 and the U.S. movement's high point in 1970—from the May campus strike to the revolt in the military, workers' wildcat strikes, the national women's strike, the Chicano Moratorium, and the Black Panther Party's Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention in Septe

Author

George N. Katsiaficas, Kathleen Cleaver, Carlos Muñoz

Publisher

Oakland, CA: PM Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781629634944

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences