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Media On this day, 10 May 1968, the “night of the barricades” took place in Paris as the May 68 rebellion escalated. Thousands of high school and university students took to the streets that evening, occupied the Latin Quarter and began barricading the streets with overturned cars, billboards, repurposed construction site materials and paving stones.Le Monde newspaper reported that: "Sixty barricades will be put up in this way and be continually fortified. Many of them were higher than two meters tall. A veritable frenzy takes hold of the demonstrators in their hunt for materials that can reinforce the barricades they are building: cars, wood beams, rolls of wire, breeze blocks, scaffolding. Construction sites are pillaged. Helmets are taken, work vests; bulldozers are started up. There are soon anthills piling up, built of all that can be dragged along… There’s a sort of laborious, almost meticulous exaltation. A contagious enthusiasm, almost a joy."Meanwhile, local residents fed the demonstrators, passing them food into the streets. At 2:15 AM on May 11, riot police moved in to try to clear out the protesters with tear gas and truncheons. Protesters singing the "Marseillaise" and the "Internationale" fought back with paving stones, while locals poured water from their windows onto the students to help them deal with the teargas. Police responded by firing tear gas into people's apartments.By the early hours of the morning, police had forced most of the demonstrators to retreat. But their violence provoked widespread sympathy for the students, and the protests continued to grow, culminating in a general strike with factory occupations by millions of workers.We have books as well as reproduction artwork from the uprising available in our online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/may-68 To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo

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"The Beach!" Op de muur bij huidige bezetting in Amsterdam. Verwijzing vermoedelijk naar "Sous les pavés, la plage" uit Parijs '68. Onder de stenen ligt het strand. Stenen, strijd, verdediging... poëtisch verbonden met het ontspanning en genieten van het leven. Historisch bewust!

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Media On this day, 4 May 1929, actor and Dutch resistance activist Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium. Her parents, a baroness and a banker, were both fascists who personally met with Hitler.After her father abandoned them, she and her mother moved to the Netherlands, and her mother's views changed when Nazis executed her brother, Otto van Limburg Stirum, in retaliation for resistance activities.As a child, Hepburn studied ballet, and began to perform recitals to fundraiser for the resistance. The performances were referred to as "zwarte avonden" ("black evenings") as organisers blacked out windows while they took place so they could not be observed from outside. Hepburn described how "Guards were posted outside" to warn of approaching Germans, and how audiences "made not a single sound at the end of [her] performance." And she explained that: "afterwards, money was collected and given to the Dutch Underground."Hepburn was part of the resistance cell of Dr. Hendrik Visser’t Hooft which, according to his daughters, he proudly recalled to them. Hepburn would help deliver copies of his underground anti-fascist newspaper as a courier: "I stuffed them in my woolen socks in my wooden shoes, got on my bike and delivered them," she later recounted.Hepburn also told the New York Daily Mirror that her activities included "running around with food" for downed Allied pilots. As an English speaker, she also relayed messages between downed British pilots and the resistance, and according to her son her family sheltered a British pilot who had been shot down. Hepburn also pointed out that many Dutch children "did their little bit to help… Many were much more courageous than I was."Some of our historical posts about opposition to the Nazis have been deleted recently. To connect with us directly, independently of social media corporations, please join our email list: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/pages/sign-up To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo