"The area of Kings Cross is, contrary to all received ideas, the true sanctum regnum of British legend, a place you only have to scratch the surface to find gold."
Aidan Andrew Dunn.

A short story on the theme of "A Story of 1968..." written in the 1pm writers workshop.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tribute to Rudi Dutschke

Q. Until the May Days, it was thought that in France there were still only some old anarchists continuing the cult of Ravachol, of Kropotkin, and of the Bonnot Gang.

1968: the year the world caught fire

Renewed social unrest in France has seen the iconic posters of May ’68 re-surface, as militants evoke the power of protest imagery.

Rather Life
For Philippe Soupault

Rather life than those prisms without depth even if the colours are purer
Rather than that always clouded hour those terrible wagons of cold flames

Religion undoubtedly surpasses every other human activity in sheer quantity and variety of bullshit.

A take on Guy DeBord's Society of the Spectacle. Combined footage of a George W. Bush Speech on the Iraq War, images from news channels, and text from DeBord's "Society of the Spectacle."

A Work of Fiction

"Game Philosophy had merged with Situationism and radical politics

COMRADES,
The collapse of the revolutionary image presented by the international Communist movement is taking place forty years after the collapse of the revolutionary movement itself.

HELEN’S ASLEEP
(Essex: May 1968)

Helen’s asleep
her back pins me to the wall
and all day I’ve been thinking in pictures
there have been

pictures of theories

About the Collection

Communist journalist who told the truth about Hungary 1956

Friday November 3, 2006
The Guardian

‘Boredom is counterrevolutionary’

‘Those who make revolutions half way only dig their own graves’

Forty years later these two Paris grafitti from ’68 seem appropriate. We

MARCH:

1968: Anti-Vietnam demo turns violent

On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972

Marx noted that the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living but that will be probably true for only a small minority of those who will be recalling and possibly celebrating the 40th an

In May28 1968 students at Hornsey College of Art in North London - in a building now (1988) occupied by the TUC Education Centre - began a 24 hour work-in.

A website linking to those involved in events at Essex University in the 1960s.
MAY DAYS IN PARIS

Essex 1968 is a website linking to those involved in events at Essex University in the 1960s.

Language has been given to man so that he can make Surrealist use of it.
Andre Breton.First Manifesto of Surrealism.1924

Introduction
(Written for the original edition, published by Solidarity in June 1968.)

leaving the 20th century
 
The incomplete work of the situationist international

The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
 

Dada, Surrealism and the Situationist International

Consider the following:

1.Capital Part One Commodities and Money

‘What are we fighting Communism for? We are the most Communist people in world history.’
- Marshall McLuhan, 1969.

The Poetics of Propaganda: David Widgery