As we have
already pointed out in several articles published in the
International Review and in our territorial press, the events in France during May 1968 were only part of a
much broader movement around the world.
We are publishing
here an article from a comrade in Japan, which demonstrates clearly that
this broader movement also had its counterpart there, despite the specific and
difficult historic particularities of that country.
The future
proletarian revolution will be internationalist and international or it will be
nothing. It is one of the greatest responsibilities of internationalists around
the world today to place their local experience firmly within the framework of
world events, to understand the movement of the working class in any one place
as being only a part, an expression of a greater whole, and to contribute to an
international debate within the working class on the lessons of past events for
the future of the struggle against a moribund capitalism. We therefore salute
comrade Ken's effort to place the events of 1968 in Japan in both a historical and a global
context. We support his conclusion wholeheartedly: "We would be satisfied if this brief summary reflection upon the Japanese
"68" could assist in some way in the international coordination of the global
working class (this was the most important thing then, and the most important
thing now)."