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$1.95/18s • MR-22 (^MODERN READER ng March, Short Spring V The Student Uprising at "'#$& y lome and Abroad %,?:% Barbara and John Ehrenreich V v Lt«U vit tifinll "trn^fl X L*' - .»-; Lt,ng March, short spring = the LM86 'lllllll LA 186 .E35 Ehrenreich, Barbara. Long March, short spring #12443 BORROWERSNAME kw^i \/^(^k^: f *r #12443 36 Bhrenrelcht Barbara* 35 Long March, short spring the student uprising at home and: abroad by Barbara and John Ehrenreich* New / York Monthly Review Press, 1969. : 189 p. 22 cm. Bibliogr;aphy: p* 185 1-189* #12443 GiftrKay Co[le $ • 1* Student movements* 2* College students Political activity* I* Ehrenreich, John, 1943- II. Title THE LIBRARY NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA 50 FELL STREET SAN FRANCISCO.CALIFORNIA 94 02 \ Long March, Short Spring Long March, Short Spring The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad by Barbara and John Ehrenreich A Modern Reader New York and London All Rights Reserved © Copyright 1969 by Barbara and John Ehrenreich First Modern Reader Paperback Edition 1969 First Printing Published by Monthly Review Press 116 West 14th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011 33/37 Moreland Street, London, E.C. 1 Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 69-19789 To the Vietnamese people Prefiace We spent most of the early part of the spring of 1968 trying to figure out how to get away from school (graduate school). Then sometime between April 23 (during the Columbia up- rising) and May 10 (the night of the barricades in Paris) we decided that universities might be more interesting than we'd realized. Many other people in the American student move- ment were beginning to feel the same way. Up to then our international interests had focused on Vietnam and Latin America. We knew a lot about the N.L.F., the Huks in the Philippines, and the Guatemalan guerrillas, but hardly any- thing about our European counterparts: SDS in Germany, the March 22nd Movement in France, the Italian movement. When the universities blew up in the spring, we decided to find out about these student movements. We flew to Europe to get there before schools were out for the summer. Although there wasn't much time, we managed to find plenty of people to talk to. We had no special desire to meet the "leaders" of the movements, but usually ended up meeting them anyway. We did our best to talk to as many ordinary students as we could. In several countries, we got a lot of help from American friends who have been living there. They filled us in on what was going on and made sure we met plenty of people. Since we've been back in New York, the flow has been in the other direction: many European stu- 7 8 Long March, Short Spring dents have come through, brought us up to date, and actually — helped write the book by reading drafts, criticizing, and discussing interpretations. This is not an "objective" book (is there such a thing any- We We way?). are not reporters. did not simply interview people; we asked questions and we argued. We spent more time discussing strategy and common problems than we did making notes. Of course, we have even less detachment about the events described in the Columbia chapter. We, or friends of ours, were at Columbia at many times during the struggle as participants. This is also not a comprehensive book. There is nothing in it about the important movements in Japan or Mexico, or about any of the smaller movements which are springing up in almost every capitalist country and in a few Communist countries. It is about only four countries besides the United States: England, France, Germany, and Italy. Even within these narrow limits, we didn't try to be complete. We tried to keep within the limits of what we knew from first-hand ac- counts. So the chapter on Germany centers on the movement in Frankfurt and Berlin. The chapter on Italy is about Turin and Rome. These are the key cities for the movements in the two countries; they were also the only cities we visited in Germany and Italy. The chapter on England is short partly because our visit there was short. The emphasis varies from country to country (that is, from chapter to chapter). In Germany, we were most interested in how the movement has developed over the last five years in the context of the country's history. In France, we emphasize the subject we discussed continually with French students: the dynamics of revolutionary change and its meaning for revolutionary organization. Also, we stick to the student role in May; the full story of the workers' role is beyond the scope
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