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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

MEXICO

Black Dwarf Vol. 13, No. 11, 14 February 1969 · p. 6 of the scan · 257 words

The scan: v13n11-feb-14-1969.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 1-1 of 4; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 6 of the scan

by the massacre of 273 people in the Three Cultures Square October 2. In December exico city university was reopened Dut more than a thousand staff and students were arrested after protest meetings. Jan 30 - students at the university and at the polytechnic institute went on a 24 hour strike to protest the wave or arrests. VENEZUELA Students at Caracas University used the campus for storing arms and training cadres for the FALN guerrillas; but government finally invaded in 1964. ARGENTINA The student protest movement in Cordoba 1918 led to the Cordoba Manifesto, the first important statement of the need for student power. The Manifesto proposed a triple division of power between staff, graduates, and unaciaduuates implementation was increasingly successful and led to a rise in academic standards. Following the military coup in 1966 police and fascists invaded the campus. Students have subsequently demonstrated, struck and given aid to the guerrilla movement in Tucuman province, and to the left-wing part of the Argentinian CGT which has refused to work with the government.

CUBA

Cuban students played vital role in the revolutionary struggle, 1956-59; 1957 executed after attempt to assassinate Batista. Many lought in the mountains. Now playing a leading role in economic activity, giving up forty days a year of productive work. Within Havana univeristy, students play an important role in administration and fixing courses.

BRAZIL Students in constant activity since CIA coup in 1964. Demonstrations in spring 1968 resulted in several deaths. Following dissolution puppet parliament December severe has temporarily quietened activity.

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