Media 68

1 - 10 june
11 - 20 june
21 - 30 june

11 june

Westmoreland abandons Saigon. For the occasion the NLF bombs the whole South Vietnamese capital with rockets. In the USA the multi-millionaire Hearst proposes razing Hanoi to the ground in retaliation.
[Vietnam]
Until dawn violent clashes around the Peugeot of Sochaux: two workers killed (one by gunshot, the other by mistake). In the evening the clashes in the Latin Quarter begin: it is the third and last "night of the barricades"; for the first time public opinion is not on the side of the students.
[France]
Two suspended sentences and one absolution at the trial in Rome for Campo de' Fiori. At dawn the police evacuate the State university of Milan and arrest three non student occupiers. In the early afternoon, the movement reoccupies the building. Pasolini publishes in "L'Espresso" his poem against the student movement, attacking it at its roots. Hard reactions from the students.
[Italy]

12 june

Twelfth consecutive night of Vietcong bombardments of Saigon. Battle around the besieged base of Khe Sanh.
[Vietnam]
Ridiculous answer of the CGT to the battles and dead of the previous day in the Renault of Sochaux: 1 hour of general strike. The government forbids all public demonstrations and outlaws 7 organizations of the extra-parliamentary left.
[France]
Twenty thousand students occupy the Arts faculty of the University of Ankara.
[Turkey]
The trial begins in Rome against the poet and philosopher Aldo Braibanti, accused of plagiarism with regard to two students and cohabitants. He risks 15 years of prison. The Braibanti trial will become a symbol of aberration and witch-hunt.
[Italy]

13 june

Outlawed in France 5 other revolutionary organizations. Expelled from the country 114 foreigners detained during the clashes. Pardoned all the exponents of the OAS except for the leader of the group, Salan; he, sentenced to life imprisonment, will be pardoned and released on the 15th.
[France]
After a student demonstration that ended with hours of battles in Montevideo, the Uruguayan president Pacheco-Areco proposes a state of siege. 3 ministers refuse to sign the decree and resign causing a government crisis.
[Uruguay]

14 june

In Rome a factory, the Apollon, has been occupied for a few days. The Feram also goes on strike in protest against 100 dismissals.
[Italy]
The Committee of occupation of the Sorbonne decides to close the university for reasons of hygiene. Inside the tension between the Committee and the service of order of the Katangans, in part formed of former legionaries, slides into an open clash.
[France]
Abrams replaces Westmoreland in Saigon. The installation ceremony is deserted by the great majority of the collaborationist officials. For the general, Saigon represents the key to the war and the main North Vietnamese target.
[Vietnam]

15 june

The Nobel prize-winning poet Salvatore Quasimodo dies.
[Italy]
The epicentre of the student and workers' revolt is moving in South America. In Montevideo a state of alarm is decreed and 40 leaders of the trade unions and of the student movement are arrested. Demonstrations in all the Argentine cities.
[Uruguay]
The French trade union CGT submits to the workers of the Renault a plan of agreement that must be voted the following day. Useless the resistance of the Catholic trade union CFDT, positioned to the left of the CGT and favourable to the continuation of the strike.
[France]

16 june

The French trade union CGT submits to the workers of the Renault a plan of agreement that must be voted the following day. Useless the resistance of the Catholic trade union CFDT, positioned to the left of the CGT and favourable to the continuation of the strike.
[United States]
In many Brazilian cities the students challenge the government embargo and demonstrate in the streets. The marches are immediately broken up by the police.
[Brazil]
The police evacuate the Sorbonne. The students resist inside and occupy the police in clashes outside but after some hours the agents of the CRS have taken over the university.
[France]
Sentence of the paediatrician Benjamin Spock and 4 detainees in Boston. They were accused of instigation to violate the law on obligatory conscription.
[United States]

17 june

In Rome encounter between the student movement and James Boggs, leader and theorist of Black Power.
[Italy]
Battle between students and police in Buenos Aires while the protest continues also in Rosario and in the other main cities. The movement also explodes in Peru with demonstrations that are repressed violently.
[Argentina]
Tumultuous conclusion of the voting at the Renault. Clashes and fights between trade unionists and workers against resuming work. The final vote sees the majority of 75% in favour of the resumption of work.
[France]

18 june

The conservative Lords manage to put the proposal of sanctions against Rhodesia in minority. Strikes in the English universities. A delegation asks the minister for Defence to suspend the research on chemical and bacteriological arms.
[Great Britain]
The inauguration of the Biennial of Venice mobilizes huge forces of police in anticipation of protests and opposition. A demonstration of artists and students is charged in Piazza San Marco.
[Italy]
Battle in Rio de Janeiro between students and police. The protest of Rio will spread in the following days to the workers.
[Brazil]
The workers resume work entering the factories with the red flag. In the following 2 days the same scene will be repeated in all the main factories. It is the end of the insurrection of May.
[France]

19 june

Moshe Dayan states that the Israeli territory "must spread from the Jordan to the sea" and invites the government to colonize as quickly as possible the territories occupied in '67.
[Middle East]
More police charges in Piazza San Marco during the protest against the Biennial of Venice. Official protests of the Spanish and Scandinavian artists.
[Italy]
For the first time a minister of the FRG, the Social-Democrat Willy Brandt, is on a visit to east Berlin.
[International]
The military manoeuvres of the Warsaw Pact begin in Czechoslovakia.
[Czechoslovakia]

20 june

Demonstration of the student movement in front of the house of the Student in Rome in solidarity with the protest of the employees. Eighteen Italian artists out of twenty-two withdraw their works from the Biennial in protest against the repression.
[Italy]
In Washington the last day of the "march of the poor". 150,000 people take part in the demonstration. Luther King's successor, Abernathy, announces that the Resurrection City camp will not be abandoned.
[United States]

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11 june		Westmoreland abandons Saigon. For the occasion the NLF bombs the whole South Vietnamese capital with rockets. In the USA the multi-millionaire Hearst proposes razing Hanoi to the ground in retaliation. [Vietnam] Until dawn violent clashes around the Peugeot of Sochaux: two workers killed (one by gunshot, the other by mistake). In the evening the clashes in the Latin Quarter begin: it is the third and last "night of the barricades"; for the first time public opinion is not on the side of the students. [France] Two suspended sentences and one absolution at the trial in Rome for Campo de' Fiori. At dawn the police evacuate the State university of Milan and arrest three non student occupiers. In the early afternoon, the movement reoccupies the building. Pasolini publishes in "L'Espresso" his poem against the student movement, attacking it at its roots. Hard reactions from the students. [Italy]
12 june		Twelfth consecutive night of Vietcong bombardments of Saigon. Battle around the besieged base of Khe Sanh. [Vietnam] Ridiculous answer of the CGT to the battles and dead of the previous day in the Renault of Sochaux: 1 hour of general strike. The government forbids all public demonstrations and outlaws 7 organizations of the extra-parliamentary left. [France] Twenty thousand students occupy the Arts faculty of the University of Ankara. [Turkey] The trial begins in Rome against the poet and philosopher Aldo Braibanti, accused of plagiarism with regard to two students and cohabitants. He risks 15 years of prison. The Braibanti trial will become a symbol of aberration and witch-hunt. [Italy]
13 june		Outlawed in France 5 other revolutionary organizations. Expelled from the country 114 foreigners detained during the clashes. Pardoned all the exponents of the OAS except for the leader of the group, Salan; he, sentenced to life imprisonment, will be pardoned and released on the 15th. [France] After a student demonstration that ended with hours of battles in Montevideo, the Uruguayan president Pacheco-Areco proposes a state of siege. 3 ministers refuse to sign the decree and resign causing a government crisis. [Uruguay]
14 june		In Rome a factory, the Apollon, has been occupied for a few days. The Feram also goes on strike in protest against 100 dismissals. [Italy] The Committee of occupation of the Sorbonne decides to close the university for reasons of hygiene. Inside the tension between the Committee and the service of order of the Katangans, in part formed of former legionaries, slides into an open clash. [France] Abrams replaces Westmoreland in Saigon. The installation ceremony is deserted by the great majority of the collaborationist officials. For the general, Saigon represents the key to the war and the main North Vietnamese target. [Vietnam]
15 june		The Nobel prize-winning poet Salvatore Quasimodo dies. [Italy] The epicentre of the student and workers' revolt is moving in South America. In Montevideo a state of alarm is decreed and 40 leaders of the trade unions and of the student movement are arrested. Demonstrations in all the Argentine cities. [Uruguay] The French trade union CGT submits to the workers of the Renault a plan of agreement that must be voted the following day. Useless the resistance of the Catholic trade union CFDT, positioned to the left of the CGT and favourable to the continuation of the strike. [France]
16 june		The French trade union CGT submits to the workers of the Renault a plan of agreement that must be voted the following day. Useless the resistance of the Catholic trade union CFDT, positioned to the left of the CGT and favourable to the continuation of the strike. [United States] In many Brazilian cities the students challenge the government embargo and demonstrate in the streets. The marches are immediately broken up by the police. [Brazil] The police evacuate the Sorbonne. The students resist inside and occupy the police in clashes outside but after some hours the agents of the CRS have taken over the university. [France] Sentence of the paediatrician Benjamin Spock and 4 detainees in Boston. They were accused of instigation to violate the law on obligatory conscription. [United States]
17 june		In Rome encounter between the student movement and James Boggs, leader and theorist of Black Power. [Italy] Battle between students and police in Buenos Aires while the protest continues also in Rosario and in the other main cities. The movement also explodes in Peru with demonstrations that are repressed violently. [Argentina] Tumultuous conclusion of the voting at the Renault. Clashes and fights between trade unionists and workers against resuming work. The final vote sees the majority of 75% in favour of the resumption of work. [France]
18 june		The conservative Lords manage to put the proposal of sanctions against Rhodesia in minority. Strikes in the English universities. A delegation asks the minister for Defence to suspend the research on chemical and bacteriological arms. [Great Britain] The inauguration of the Biennial of Venice mobilizes huge forces of police in anticipation of protests and opposition. A demonstration of artists and students is charged in Piazza San Marco. [Italy] Battle in Rio de Janeiro between students and police. The protest of Rio will spread in the following days to the workers. [Brazil] The workers resume work entering the factories with the red flag. In the following 2 days the same scene will be repeated in all the main factories. It is the end of the insurrection of May. [France]
19 june		Moshe Dayan states that the Israeli territory "must spread from the Jordan to the sea" and invites the government to colonize as quickly as possible the territories occupied in '67. [Middle East] More police charges in Piazza San Marco during the protest against the Biennial of Venice. Official protests of the Spanish and Scandinavian artists. [Italy] For the first time a minister of the FRG, the Social-Democrat Willy Brandt, is on a visit to east Berlin. [International] The military manoeuvres of the Warsaw Pact begin in Czechoslovakia. [Czechoslovakia]
20 june		Demonstration of the student movement in front of the house of the Student in Rome in solidarity with the protest of the employees. Eighteen Italian artists out of twenty-two withdraw their works from the Biennial in protest against the repression. [Italy] In Washington the last day of the "march of the poor". 150,000 people take part in the demonstration. Luther King's successor, Abernathy, announces that the Resurrection City camp will not be abandoned. [United States]