Demanding the Impossible, Jennifer Mills, newmatilda, May 2008.
Choice quotes:
“The movement’s strengths were its diversity and spontaneity, which is why it’s so often quoted by anarchists when they’re trying to tell people what to do. But those strengths are also what makes soixante-huit hard to pin down as a piece of history, to slot neatly into our [sic] narrative of post-war European development as tending inexorably toward democracy.”
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Michael Costa
Costa’s obscene outburst at unions
Andrew West and Andrew Clennell
Sydney Morning Herald
May 5, 2008 Read more »
The first Ladies’ Handbook post is here. This instalment, “Syphilis” and “Personal Responsibility”, completes Chapter III: “Outside The Marriage Circle”. [Bold is mine.] Read more »
Image of the Prague skyline courtesy of Pavelm - licenced under Creative Commons. Read more »
It’s not fair. I’ve noted that Michael Costa, Keith Windschuttle and Paul Owens are ex-Trots, but what about all those ex-anarchists? Well, when I write ‘ex-anarchist’, I really mean those-who-may-once-have-called-themselves-anarchists but who now… well, no longer do. I think.
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While I’m quite a fan of allohistory, I rarely engage in it because (a) I’m not very good at it and (b) it’s rather self-indulgent. But like most indulgences, it’s a bit of harmless fun and it won’t make you go blind. Read more »
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series: “Chapter III: Outside The Marriage Circle”. The original post is here. Read more »
…Detractors say that the consequences [of the events of May 1968] have been disastrous – divorce, drugs, crime and a general breakdown in social cohesion amid the pursuit of individual happiness. Mr Sarkozy was virulent in his criticism, pledging to “liquidate the legacy” of the uprising during his election campaign last year. He is in a minority. According to a recent poll 80 per cent of French people think that May ’68 had a positive influence on relationships between men and women. Read more »
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