Socialist Alternative

Saturday, May 17
1:30pm
Walker (Uptown) Library
2880 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis

2008 marks the 40th anniversary of 1968, a year that saw revolutionary movements sweep the globe and threaten the foundations of the capitalist system itself. From the student revolt in France that helped inspire the greatest general strike in history when 10 million workers occupied their factories in May-June, to the growing radicalization in the black community and an explosion of the anti-war movement in the U.S. following the Tet Offensive in January, workers and young people around the world were clamoring for change.

Yet it was also a year of repression, from the massacre of hundreds of demonstrators in Mexico just months before the Olympic games (echoing events in China today), to the beating of demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention by the Chicago police, to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. after he had begun to speak out against the Vietnam War and increasingly question the foundations of the system itself. With the RNC coming to St. Paul, and the growing movements around the world owing to rising food prices and anger at corrupt governments, come hear more about these movements and discuss the legacy of 1968 for those of us today who want to build a peaceful, just world, free of war, poverty, racism, and oppression!