Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decisively exploded the ruling orthodoxy. It was thus possible-before the event-to locate the source of student and intellectual radicalism within the structure of the "mass consumption society" and its accumulation of historical contradictions. In that light, student and intellectual radicalism can be seen as crystallizing the revolt of modern productive forces as a whole against bourgeois relations of production...
...complaints, harping on the helplessness, the misery and the suffering of the oppressed. "On the contrary, a revolutionary paper must be, above all, a record of those symptoms which every where announce the coming of a new era, the germination of new forms of social life, the growing revolt against antiquated institutions." It is through adherence to these guidelines that Goodman has created an absorbing and powerful political tract...
...Premier to assist in the formation of a broad centrist coalition, but stayed on at the Foreign Ministry, where he was instrumental in bringing King George II back from exile and negotiating with the Truman Administration for the massive military and economic aid that was to end the revolt...
...gathering was called to celebrate African Freedom Fighters' Day and to commemorate the date of Nat Turner's death. (In 1831, Turner led an abortive slave revolt in Virginia...
...strike. They demand that their hourly wages, which now average $4.05, be raised by 61.5¢ in the first year of a three-year contract (26¢ of it in deferred cost-of-living allowances), and they want additional increases if strong inflation continues. They are also in revolt against the numbing prospect of spending all their years until old age on the assembly lines. The central issue is a demand for "30 and out": retirement at any age after 30 years of service, on a pension of $500 a month. The walkout is costing the economy $1 billion a week...