STREET FIGHTING
YEARS
28 February Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah
1966 overthrown by putsch.
25 May China: Start of the Cultural
Revolution.
3-10 December Berlin: Week of action against war in Vietnam.
Student leader Rudi Dutschke calls for an extra-parliamentary opposition.
8 January Vietnam: Start of US offensive,
1967
486,000 troops sent.
5 February Shanghai : Proclamation of a people's commune.
24 February China: Zhou En Lai demands an end to excessive purges.
21 April Greece: Military coup d'état.
25 April Bolivia: Régis Debray, left-wing French writer visiting
Che Guevara, imprisoned.
16 May USSR: Alexander Solzhenitsyn protests against censorship at Soviet writers' congress.
22 May Egypt: President Nasser decides to blockade Gulf of
Akaba.
27 May Nigeria:
Civil war sparked off by secession of
LITES 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
Heights.
9 July Japan: 40,000 workers and 6,000 students demonstrate against US air bases.
12-24 July USA: Black revolts in Newark and Detroit. Black Panthers organise urban guerrilla warfare groups.
30 July Havana: Organization of Latin American Solidarity —
OLAS - conference.
1 September China: Mao Zedong supports Zhou En Lai and condemns the ultra left. Return to calm.
9 October Bolivia: Che Guevara killed in captivity.
21 October International demonstrations in Washington (25,000),
London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Amsterdam and Tokyo against the Vietnam War.
13 November Japan: Student demonstration at Haneda airport against prime minister's departure to US.
3 January Czechoslovakia: Alexander Dub-
1968 cek elected first secretary of CP, heralding "Prague Spring"
29 January Japan: Student unrest begins in medical schools.
30 January Vietnam: National Liberation Front (NLF) launches
Tet Offensive.
17-18 February Berlin: International Vietnam solidarity demon-
16 2 February Spanish state: Universities of Madrid and Valencia
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February Japan: Students join farmers in their fight against Sanrizuka airport.
8 March Warsaw: Clashes between police and students.
16 March Vietnam: US troops massacre 799 villagers at My Lai.
17 March London: Mass demonstration in Grosvenor Square against US policy in Vietnam.
21 March Jordan: Battle
LA POLICE VOUS PARLE of Karameh is first major armed confrontation between Israeli tous les soirs forces and the Palestine a 20h.
resistance.
22 March Paris: Students occupy administration tower at Nanterre campus demanding release of students arrested after anti-US imperialism demo. "22 March
Movement" is born.
29 March Brazil: Two students killed by police in Rio de Janeiro.
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.
26/27 April USA: Following international student strike against the war, students at Columbia University, New York occupy buildings.
27 April Britain: 1967 Abortion Act comes into force.
30 April Spanish state: Thousands of students join rallies called by the Workers' Commissions.
3 May Paris: Students locked out from Nanterre retreat to the Sorbonne. Dean calls police to evict them and close Sorbonne.
10 May Paris: Barricades built in Paris streets by students against police "cleaning out" the university area (Latin Quarter).
13 May France: General strike. Hundreds of thousands of workers, students and school students march in Paris and provincial cities. Students re-occupy the Sorbonne.
14 May Paris: Beginning of peace talks between US and Vietnamese NLF.
22 May France: General strike involves 8 million workers.
27 May France: Publication of "Grenelle Accords" between bosses and unions on minimum guaranteed wage, workhours, retirement age and trade-union rights. Rejected by rank-and-file.
Senegal: Following general strike in schools and universities the army intervenes on campus. Several dead.
29 May France: President General Charles de Gaulle "disappears"
for several hours to Baden-Baden to ascertain loyalty of top
army generals.
30 May France: De Gaulle dissolves National
Assembly. Hundreds of thousands of Gaullists demonstrate their support in Paris.
31 May Senegal: General strike called but declared illegal.
May/June Britain: Women workers at Ford's Dagenham strike for equal bonus ratings with male workers.
June USA: Presidential candidate Robert
(Bobby) Kennedy assassinated.
8 June Italy: Police remove occupying students from university building in Milan.
10 June Paris: School student Gilles Tautin is drowned in the Seine near the Renault-Flins factory 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
JCR, banned.
16 June Paris: Sorbonne evacuated in surprise attack.
18 June France: return to work in most engineering and car factories.
22 June Brazil: Students battle with police in Rio de Janeiro.
28 June USA: Police attack solidarity rally with French students in Berkeley, California.
30 June France: legislative elections. De Gaulle's party, the UDR, wins by an overwhelming majority.
4 July USA: Berkeley students win right to mass rally.
10 July France: Alain Krivine arrested for activity in the now banned JCR.
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 the Olympic stadium two days later. 18
RETOUR people killed, many wounded.
2 October Mexico
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City: More than 300 killed in student/ police clashes at Plaza des Tres Culturas.
5 October Ireland: first major civil rights demonstration in the occupied Six Coun ties in the North.
12 October Mexico
City: 1968 Olympic games open. Black
American athletes
Tommy Smith and
John Carlos give
Black Power salutes from winners' podium.
21 October Japan: Anti-Vietnam war actions by students and workers in Tokyo.
27 October London: 100,000 demonstrate against Vietnam War.
Students occupy London School of Economics.
1 November Vietnam: end to American bombing of North.
5 November USA: Richard Nixon elected president.
12 November Italy: Nationwide student protests.
14 November Italy: General strike by 12 million workers.
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16 November Ireland: 15,000 march in defiance of ban on all demos in the Six
Counties.
22 November Ireland: Package of civil rights reforms announced by Northern prime minister.
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January Ireland:
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Belfast to Dungannon civil rights march.
16 January Czechoslovakia: Jan Palach burns himself to death in the centre of Prague in rotest against the "de-liberalization".
9 January Japan: Police expel radical student organization Zengakuren from Tokyo university buildings. Provoke nationwide student occupations.
22 January Spanish state: Franco dictatorship decrees state of emergency.
17 April Ireland: Bernadette Devlin elected to Westminster.
Czechoslovakia: Dubcek removed from leadership of CP.
27 April France: De Gaulle resigns after defeat in constitutional referendum.
6 May France: Alain Krivine candidate in presidential elections.
18 May Britain: National demo for equal rights for women.
1 June France: Krivine gets 1% of vote (249,000 votes).
5-7 June USSR: International conference of Communist Parties.
Italians refuse to vote for main document.
21 July US astronaut Neil Armstrong is first person on the moon.
12 August Ireland:
"Battle of the Bog-
POUVOIR side" in Derry provoked by Loyalist demonstrations.
PORULAIRE
14 August Ireland:
British troops sent into the
Six
Counties.
21 August USA:
Woodstock pop festival.
1 September Britain:
200,000 hear Bob
Dylan at Isle of
Wight pop festival.
1 September Libya: Kadhafi leads coup d'état by Council of the
Revolution.
15 October USA: Millions participate in moratorium on Vietnam.
Massive demonstrations against war in New York, Boston and
Washington.
17 November Japan: Massive, violent demonstration by students and workers against agreements on US use of Okinawa island.
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18 March Kampuchea: Norodom Sihanouk toppled and replaced by General Lon Nol.
26 June Ireland: Bernadette Devlin imprisoned.
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.
8 October USSR: Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize.
4 November Chile: Unidad Popular candidate Salvador Allende elected president.
17 December Poland: Increasing unrest. Gierek replaces Gomulka as first secretary.
28 December Spanish state: Six Basque nationalists sentenced to death in Burgos trial. Franco commutes sentence to 30 years im. 17 prisonment.
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