1968 - Back Draft I? "Catonsville Nine," including Phil &
Dan Berrigan, break into Catonsville, Maryland draft board
center & burn over 600 draft files.
1968 - France: Today the Occupations Committee, including
members of the Situationist International (SI) & the enragis
from Nanterre University, sent the following telegram to the
Communist Party of the USSR:
SHAKE IN YOUR SHOES BUREAUCRATS STOP
THE INTERNATIONAL POWER OF THE WORKERS'
COUNCILS WILL SOON WIPE YOU OUT STOP
HUMANITY WILL NOT BE HAPPY UNTIL THE LAST
BUREAUCRAT IS HUNG WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST
CAPITALIST STOP
LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE KRONSTADT
SAILORS AND OF THE MAKHNOVSCHINA AGAINST
TROTSKY AND LENIN STOP LONG LIVE THE 1956
COUNCILIST INSURRECTION OF
BUDAPEST STOP DOWN WITH THE STATE STOP
1968 - France: Several thousand students march for the
second time in 24 hours from the Sorbonne to the Renault
works in spite of the opposition of the trade unions which are
afraid of revolutionary contamination.
This evening the "mad ones" also affect the TV industry,
& France is faced with a radio & television stoppage.
The take over of factories & paralysis of government is the
nation's most severe revolt since the 1871 Paris Commune.
In the next few days, sit-in strikes spread through the
engineering & chemical industries, coal mines cease
production, & mass transit, rail travel & postal service
come to a standstill. The strike also spurs middle-
professionals, including civil servants, teachers &
television workers to strike.
Over 10 million workers
are involved with occupations in 120 factories.
1972 - Italy: Milan police chief Luigi Calabresi, in charge
at the time police "suicided" the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli
on December 15, 1969, is assassinated.
Much more at the daily Bleed.
