Rudi Dutschke

The Swinging Sixties: From rock and pop to mass protest

nerve.in     Jul 16, 2008          

London, April 3 - Britain may not have had a Rudi Dutschke or Daniel Cohn- Bendit, but the 1968 student riots have nonetheless left an indelible mark on the country's transition from post-war austerity to the all-pervading...                    

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First Tanks, then Silence: The Tragic Failure of the Prague Spring

spiegel.de     Jul 4, 2008   5 related          

The Tragic Failure of the Prague Spring In the West, the 1968 generation is generally seen in a postive light. The nice new employee was a man named Alexander Dubcek, and one year previous he had still been first secretary of...                    

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Erwin Wickert: Diplomat and writer

independent.co.uk     Jun 19, 2008          

The diplomat Erwin Wickert witnessed the war in China, the beginning of change after Mao and faced British student protesters in the turbulent year of 1968. He was serving at the German embassy in London during the "student...                    

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Peter Rühmkorf: German poet who captured idioms

timesonline.co.uk     Jun 17, 2008          

Peter Rühmkorf was one of Germany’s most significant postwar poets. He wrenched words from headlines, picked them out of TV commercials and stocks-and-shares reports, shifted them from supermarket labels and transmuted them...                    

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Sich gut anfühlende Nachrichten aus Woche 22

herrfischer.net     May 29, 2008          

Bild: «Taking a break from promoting a video game among fellow students in which one could play Rudi Dutschke at the Free University of Berlin.» (Dahlem 2008) 186 FirstClass-Suiten sowie eine «active-Lounge» für Fitness und Wellness wird «The Dahlem Cube» – ein neues Hotel auf dem Campus der...                    

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Eco Socialism

plawiuk.blogspot.com     May 28, 2008          

I love the pretense behind this meeting announcement. As if eco-socialism, social ecology or even feminist ecology were NEW only to be recently discovered by the Left in Toronto. They founded the Ecosocialist International Network, and called for a global ecosocialist conference, to be held in...                    

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Both the Left and the Right Misremember the Sixties

hnn.us     May 12, 2008          

"If you remember the sixties," quipped Robin Williams (and quite a few others), "you weren"t there." He was, of course, referring to the haze created by all those mind-expanding drugs the beautiful people popped, mainlined and smoked. In truth, however, time has proved an equally effective...                    

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A swing through the Sixties

scotsman.com     May 10, 2008          

At 1969's 'chaotic' Woodstock festival ticket-holders climb the sound tower for a better view. Picture: Three Lions/Getty ... The 60s Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade By Gerard DeGroot Macmillan, 500pp, £20 YOU NEED TO KNOW THE YEAR Gerard...                    

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BERLINERS EXPLORE LEGACY OF 1968 STUDENT MOVEMENT

onlinedemocracy.ca     May 9, 2008          

BERLIN, (Mar. 25, 2008) IPS/GIN - A flood of lectures, concerts, exhibitions and film screenings concerning the events of 1968 are taking place this spring in Berlin, as the nation debates whether the student movement helped liberalize post-war German society.                    

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SEP/ISSE public meetings in Germany 1968: The lessons for today

wsws.org     May 9, 2008          

The events of 1968 are often dismissed as merely “student revolts.” Large numbers of workers also mobilised to take part in the September strikes in Germany in 1969, and the so-called “hot autumn” in Italy. In Eastern Europe workers took to the streets in Poland and...                    

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