Word: insurrectionism
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Cracking Down. The Oct. 5 abduction of Cross-the first political kidnaping to occur north of the Rio Grande-set in motion a series of events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500...
Gorz mentioned several instances of European labor insurrection as proof that "free discussion and exchange within the rank and file almost inevitably lead up to violent outbreaks and spontaneous strike action."
The New York Times's Hilton Kramer dismisses Guston's paintings as a mere exercise in radical chic. Rather, they are Guston's authentic response to a personal sense of crisis. The trouble is that painting has become a clumsy way of reporting a society as turbulent...
To combat those who "are seeking the destruction of the social order through clandestine and violent means," he invoked Canada's drastic 1914 War Measures Act. Only twice before, during the two world wars, had the act been put in force; it had never been applied in peacetime. Backing...
Though the government ordered state-owned TV to carry no news of the insurrection, the revolt steadily picked up steam and sympathy. Two weeks ago, Italy's conservative C.I.S.L. labor union called a general strike in the Reggio area. Port workers, post office clerks and telephone and telegraph employees...