Where were you in 68?
>As to his vain preening about the Aldermaston March - I was there
> in, like, 1961, when Russell was still around.
On the anniversary of 68 -- exactly thirty years on -- for some weird reason
I decided to buttonhole everyone I knew (at least the ones who were old
enough to have been alive at the time) and scream, "Where were you in 68?"
Easily the most disconcerting answer I got was from the Real Lady, Professor
Marion Shaw, my then boss.
"In the morning I was teaching, in the afternoon I was running student
strikes, and in the evening I was helping-out at a refuge for battered
wives."
Made my own experience of 68 pale into triviality in comparison.
However, I did have the opportunity to vote for Danny the Red, which other
than Martin and Douglas Clark, I doubt anyone else in this list did.
But how the whirlgig of times brings in its revenges -- now Cohn-Bendit is a
Green Euro MP, and Deeply Respectable.
Sad to think on.
Brodie
LOOKING BACKWARDS: 30 YEARS
(For Diana, who was 4)
The workers demand their voice - give us
Words, they exclaim - cry utter speak say.
Instead we created a slogan - "You are not
Living your lives, we are": This is a sit-
uationist statement. Please hand in your
Party cards at the exits. Door Zero: this is
Ideology - the children play manifestation,
Startle the gendarmes. Broken heads and blood
On the cobbles - epicentre of the phenomenon.
The circles spread and spread and it was usually
Posture. Nothing much happened, after all -
Cambridge was fun, but trivial.
Then the wave crossed the Atlantic, and
There were four dead children at Kent State U.
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