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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

John Sanbonmatsu, The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject Monthly Review, 2003

Forty years ago, movements of the Left reached an apex in the U.S. and around the world. Activist scholars Barbara Epstein, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and John Sanbonmatsu talk about the significance of 1968 and assess the efficacy of radical strategies and agendas.

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Articles by George Katsiaficas

George Katsiaficas, The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968 South End Press, 1987

George Katsiaficas, "Remembering the Kwangju Uprising" Socialism and Democracy

"The eros effect," a term coined by George Katsiaficas, is a sudden intuitive awakening of massive opposition to the powers-that-be. According to Katsiaficas, this kind of awakening occurred in France in May 1968; in the US during the massive student strike of May 1970; in Kwangju, South Korea in 1980; and in a string of popular uprisings in Asia in the 1980s and '90s.

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No Child …, by Nilaja Sun

Left Forum 2008

War Times/Tiempo de Guerras

In her one-woman show No Child ..., Nilaja Sun shines a light on adversity and hope -- among both teachers and students -- in New York's public schools. Also, George Katsiaficas and Max Elbaum discuss the meaning and legacy of 1968, a year of extraordinary political upheaval and protest around the globe.

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Immanuel Wallerstein's biweekly commentaries

LBAM Takes San Francisco, a video by Patrick Wilkinson

The influential scholar and author Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the US was the sole global superpower from 1945 to around 1970, after which US hegemony went into decline. He also talks about the 1968 revolutionaries' critique of the Old Left movements that had taken state power, and contends that capitalism "is doomed." Also, Patrick Wilkinson's new video takes on aerial pesticide spraying.