Forty Years Later
BEFORE AND AFTER
By Vladimir Gligorov
"We hugely overestimated ourselves and gave ourselves over to the
illusion that in the prosperous Federal Republic of Germany a revolution was imaginable.
Seen thus, we were like people possessed, who acted in isolation in a room empty of air.
We lived a kind of armed existentialism." Astrid Proll (member of a faction of the
Red Army, RAF, who served long sentence and now works as a photographer)
Introduction
The 1968 revolt in the East and the West was not caused by the same reasons and did not
result in the same consequences. Besides, in Yugoslavia the causes and consequences were
not the same everywhere. That year, apart from student protests all over the Western
world, Czechoslovakia was invaded and first major demonstrations broke out in Kosovo
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1968: Forty Years Later
REVOLUTION THAT
SUCCEEDED AFTER IT FAILED
By Nikola Samardzic
In May 1968 France witnessed two revolts - the one by students and the
other by workers. Students failed to attract workers to join their demands for general,
public interests and radical reforms and achieve a social and economic utopia with their
support. However, thought its demands were not fulfilled the student revolt opened a new
chapter in the political history of France and expanded the borders of human rights and
freedoms. A revolution took place in the new values of the society it tried to destroy -
and which destroyed it in turn. Student revolution strongly challenged the left and the
right alike. Its end marked the emergence of the era of Euro-communism, terrorism and
global crises. The 1968 protests - including the one in Czechoslovakia above all - morally
and ideologically... More
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Citizens Defeat Elite
JUST KNOCK AND THEY
WILL LET YOU IN
By Teofil Pancic
Post-election "settlement of ground" in Serbia slowly comes
to an end. "The casting is over long ago and everyone goes his own way now, " as
a poet from Sopot put it. Well, what have we got? We've got a government and we've got an
opposition. Great, that's what we wanted, isn't it? Yes, sure. And who we've got in the
government? The Democratic Party and the G17, but also the Socialist Party of Serbia &
Co., the former have not shared a single political stand until now. And who we've got in
the opposition? The Radicals and the Populists, a team that logically tends to
brotherhood. They have restrained themselves from hugging each other for long! But we also
have the Liberal Democratic Party that has nothing in common with those opposition
colleagues but has something in common with a part of the government... More >>> |
