PROGRAMME 1968 - the year of barricades and dreams. For a moment anything was possible. Twenty years on, the barricades have been dismantled and the dreamsshattered. Marxism Today invites you to revisit that heady fusion of politics and culture Saturday May 7th, 10.00am-6.00pm School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2 Hoi born Tube

MORNING 10.30am-12.30pm LATE AFTERNOON 4.30-6.00pm The Experience of '68 (Old Theatre) - DAVID EDGAR and ANNA Significance of '68 (Old Theatre) - STUART HALL reviews the dreams COOTE discuss '68 with ROBIN BLACKBURN and DAVETRIESMAN. that have faded and the hopes that remain for the 1990s.

War in Vietnam (Room A86) - Before 1968 the USA boasted that victory Ireland: Banners and Bullets (Room A86) -1968 was the year the in Vietnam was possible. The Tet Offensive shattered the boast. civil rights movement brought Northern Ireland to international attention. Reviewing its impact will be sixties campus activist MICHAEL KLEIN, BERNADETTE McALISKEY, KEN LIVINGSTONE, INEZ McCORMACK JOHN GITTINGS of , and the Vietnamese ambassador to and CHRIS MYANTdiscuss the cause of Ireland. Britain. Rebirth of Feminism (Room A85) - The emergence of the Women's Prague Spring (Room A85) - In 1968 Czechoslovakia experienced an Liberation Movement in the late sixties was seen by many as a reaction to exciting, but tragically short, period of socialist democracy. EDUARD the male domination of the events of '68. BEATRIX CAMPBELL, HILARY GOLDSTUCKER, then a member of the Czechoslovakian Communist WAINWRIGHT and MELISSA BENN discuss the significance of the Party's central committee, MARTIN SLING and JON BLOOMFIELD rebirth. review the Prague Spring. The Underground (Room A42) - What was it really like in the '68 and the Left (Room A42) - ERNESTO LACLAU speaks on the Underground? STEVE ABRAMS, NIGEL FOUNTAIN, JEFF NUTTALL theoretical importance of 1968. and MICHELENE WANDOR join author JONATHAN GREEN to provide some answers. LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS 1.00-2.00pm TREVOR GRIFFITHS discusses his work with ROBIN BLACKBURN '68 FILM SHOW (New Theatre) (RoomA86). 10.00am Paris Confrontation - documentary footage of '68 in Paris.

The Age of Glasnost (Room A85) - ANTHONY BARNETT talks to 10.30-11.00am The who, when and where of '68 with DAVID CAUTE. VICTOR ORLIK, editor of Soviet Weekly, about the age of Glasnost. 11.00-12.45pm Performance, directed by Nic Roeg - a gangster-movie fantasia, with Mick Jagger. GEORGE MATTHEWS, editor of the Morning Star in 1968, discusses the impact of the year's events on British Communists with SARAH BENTON 12.45-2.15pm W.R. Mysteries of the Organism - Makjevic's (RoomA42). outrageous exploration of the sexual liberation ideas of Wilhelm Reich. 2.30-3.30pm '68 on Film - COLIN MacCABE reviews the year on film EARLY AFTERNOON 2.00-4.00pm with critic JUDITH WILLIAMSON plus directors PETER WOLLEN and '68 and Europe (Old Theatre) - A discussion on the legacy of Europe's ANDYMETCALFE. 1968. 3.30-5.15pm La Chinoise, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. A hilarious, USA -from Civil Rights to Black Power (Room A86) - This was the prophetic romp through the French student movement. year Martin Luther King was assassinated, of race riots in many American 5.15-6.45pm Head - a psychedelic trip of a pop group movie starring The cities, and the year Black Power took hold of the imagination. Speakers in Monkees. this session will include CORA KAPLAN. THROUGHOUTTHE DAY Personal as Political (Room A85) - What effect has '68 had on how we view relationships today? Speakers include SUSIE ORBACH, JEFFREY Bar • Food • 'Paris in May' Exhibition • Creche WEEKS, MELANIE McFADYEAN and STUARTCOSGROVE. THE "68 SHOW tickets E6.00/E4.50 for unwaged (please provide Sixties Style (Room A42) - In '68, London was the fashion capital of the evidence of status) world. BRENDA POLAN chairs a nostalgic discussion with MOLLY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN ORGANISED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF LONDON PARKIN, ANGELA NEUSTATTER, FRANK MORT and JOHN STREET. SCHOOL OF ECOf .OMICS STUDENTS UNION DETAILS Phone 01 -608 0265

For tickets or further details please fill in the form below and send to The '68 Show, 16 St John Street, London EC1M 4AY. Tel: 01 -608 0265 D Please send me further details I enclose a cheque/postal order for £ (payable to The '68 Show) D Please send me waged '68 Show tickets (£6) • Please send me unwaged'68 Show tickets (£4.50) Name (please provide evidence of status) Address D Please send me creche registration form (must register before April 29) Postcode Tel No. M(68)

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