"The personality cult must be ended now!"

Paint-bombs at Tian-an-men square

The outcome of the Tian-an-men Square demonstration in June 1989 is well known. Less so is the fate of the three young men who threw paint bombs at the portrait of Mao Tse-tung adorning the gate to the Forbidden City. Wolfgang Kraushaar chronicles the events. [more]

"Chile Si, Junta No!"

Political protests at the 1974 FIFA World Cup

Chile's participation in the 1974 FIFA World Cup in Germany provided an opportunity for leftwing groups to make their opposition to the Chilean government junta visible to an international public. A chapter from the "Protest Chronicle". [more]

Hannah Arendt and the student movement

Notes on the correspondence between Hans-Jürgen Benedict and Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt's evaluation of the student movement was "multivalent", writes Wolfgang Kraushaar in the introduction to a telling correspondence. Arendt appeared to be "torn between the progressive impulses and the off-putting tendencies of the '68 rebellion". [more]

Protest-chronicle

24 - 30 August 1973: "The 'gastarbeiter', the new German proletariat, revolted."

Turkish workers' protest in the Ford-factory: the first multicultural strike in Germany. [more]

The Limits of the Anti-Globalisation Movement

The anti-globalisation movement is so variegated that a decisive profile would be difficult to define. Wolfgang Kraushaar writes that one can, however, find one definitive aspect: its limits. [more]

Smashing Guitars

Gustav Metzger, the Concept of the auto-desctructive Work of Art and its Consequences for Rock Music

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