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Day: 30 May 2018

France

France May ’68 – week four: Communist Party leaders hand power back to defeated bosses

May 30, 2018 Ian Pattison, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

By Friday 24 May 1968, ten million workers were on strike. The greatest general strike in history. On the same day, the president of France, General Charles de Gaulle, tried to address the nation. Nobody […]

Italy

Italy: A new crisis for European capitalism

May 30, 2018 Resistenze Internazionali (CWI in Italy) Reporters

What was a severe crisis for Italian capitalism, following the rejection in March’s general election of the establishment parties, has now developed into what can be seen as a time-bomb also threatening the European Union […]

France

France ’68 – weeks 2 & 3: History’s greatest general strike

May 30, 2018 Lenny Shail and Becci Heagney (first published in The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales)

The legacy of the French revolution of 1848, the second time France overthrew a monarchy, played an important part in the escalation of the demonstrations and street fighting in Paris.

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