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The Belgrade 1968 Student Revolution

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  An account of the student protests in Belgrade in 1968 by one of the participants. Transcript of the above video. Program Announcer: We begin with another set of student protests from 50 years ago. 1968 was a turbulent year in much of Europe and the U.S, a new found sense of free expression had led to demonstrations against the old elites, against the inequalities of capitalism, and against the Vietnam war. That’s certainly what was happening in the West, but there was also unrest in the Eastern bloc and that’s where we’re going now as we take you back to June 1968 and a student revolt in Communist Yugoslavia which exposed deep discontent at the country’s unique system of market socialism. Dina Newman has been speaking to one of the leaders of that protest Sonia Licht. [Music- Yugoslavian National Anthem Hej Sloveni] Dina Newman: Yugoslavia was formed after World War II as a one-party communist state, by its wartime anti-fascist leader Josip Broz Tito...
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Is Socialism Being Built in the Soviet Union?: A debate between three revolutionaries

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    Available as an e-book , or paperback Support translations via ko-fi Translator’s Introduction This is an English translation from Esperanto of a work by Eugene Lanti. Eugene Lanti was an important political figure and theorist whose ideas on nationalism, international solidarity and socialism are worth explaining briefly. Eugene Adam was born in 1879 in Normandy France, he became much more well known by his pseudonym of Eugene Lanti. Lanti was born into a family of poor peasants, and worked as an agricultural labourer and furniture maker in his youth, his educational background was largely self taught. During the First World War he served as an ambulance driver, while serving on the Western Front he learnt the constructed language Esperanto. In 1920 he moved away from Anarchism and became a founding member of the French Communist Party. And a year later in 1921 Lanti established himself as an important man in Esperanto circles by founding and leading the Sennacieca Asoc...
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