Obsolete Communism: The Left Wing Alternative

by Gabriel Cohn-Bendit and Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Book Overview

Daniel Cohn-Bendit - aka Danny the Red - led demonstrations at the Sorbonne in Nanterre which led to disciplinary action by the university and questioning by the local police. The immediate result of this heavy-handed discipline was a huge increase in the size of the French student movement and the outbreak of rioting which brought France to the edge of revolution in May '68. Cohn-Bendit's book brings first hand reporting from the front lines of that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1902593251
• ISBN13: 9781902593258
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Cohn Bendit back in the good old days

Cohn-Bendit used to be great. This is also the best chronological account of the May events next to The Beginning of the End: Paris '68. Very much suggested despite Cohn-Bendit's turn today.