'OLAND demonstrations in March 1968 led wed repression and anti-semitic Poland. Jan te lecturers at Warsaw uciversity aron (33) and Karol Modzelewski all for backing the demonstrations, and for attacking Canners Letter Ene United Polish Party". :CHOSLOVAKIA ents played a leading role in forcing es from the government before the an invasion. Now play a leading rol manding resistance from Dubcek and elections. Mass DIDLESS TOLOWCO of Jan Palach, January 19.
last year. Jan 17 students in Istanbul burn the American flag and protrait of new US ambassador, supporter of Vietnamese pacification programmes. Previously had sabassador's car.
IRAN
Students have been active opponents of shah since CIA coup 1953. In 1961 they forced a change of government. In 1966 five graduates of British imprisoned on faked charges of trying to shoot the shah. 14 graduates now on trial on charges of subversion. SAVAK, secret police, HaD UWIlLOICES on the campus; active among Persian students in Europe and America. LEBANON Last year militant - Beiruti desrupted talk by Foreign Minister of Government claimed was Jewish-communist plot organised by ... Cohn-Bendit. Since December 31st students in all Beiruti universities on strike demanding punishment for those responsible for defense of Beirut airport and the release of all guerrillas imprisoned by the Lebanese authorities.
PALESTINE
Since Israeli occupation Arab students involved in demonstrations almost every week. Dec 1967- Israelis arrested three student Tender involved political resistance. Palestinian students abroad have enlisted in the guerrilla organisations.
Jan 19 - Government decision to postpone examinations led to violent street-fighting in Katmandu between students and police. All shops closed. Students burnt the Minister of Education's car. and occupations over the last two months in opposition to Ayub Khan's dictatorship Many follower of Bhutto. All schools and universities closed since October 1968. Previously, thirty students were injured in Dacca, East Pakistan, when barricades raised near the marched to mosque to mourn comrade STOL by police. shooting demonstrators throughout Pakistan. INDIA Jan 28 - One student killed and two injured when police fired on student demo in Nalgonda, south of Hyderabad. Students were calling for seperation of Telengana are, where four million peasants ran a communist republic 1946-48.
Hyderabad itself high school students struck in support of Telengana movement.
subsequent • demonstrations students killed and the army called in by the Andhra Pradesh State government. All schools in Hyderabad closed Jan 30.
apartheid for years. occupied universities. Government has now brought in legislation making occupation a crime.
CHINA The Chinese Communist Party itself arose out of the student protest movement of May 4 1919 against Japanese imperialism.
The Great Cultural Revolution began at Peking. University. Throughout students in the fore of revolutionary and DrOUUCHYC activitv. Jan new revolutionary committee of staff and students was set up in Peking. VIETNAM In Democratic Vietnam students have played a crucial role in building a socialist economy; thousands are continuing their studies in preparation for reconstructions after the defeat of imperialism. In the South thousands of students have left Saigon to join the NLF.
Jan HOIC teachers struck EGYPT Nov 1968 Cairo, Alexandria and cities. Students occupy Alexandria School of Engineering and arrest the major. Many arrests Government closed all universities until further notice. Main issues opposition to peaceful settlement of Palestine; demand for expression; demand for unemployment of school and graduates. KENYA Jan 24 - Students at Nairobi University went on strike in protest at a government ban on lecture by left-wing opposition leader Oginga Odinga. government closed the campus and 1,200 students living there thrown out.
Last year Pretoria and other JAPAN On January 198,500 riot police attacked the central buildings of Toyko University as helicopters poured liquid gas out of the SKICS. 200 militant Maoist students and workers who had controlled the campus since June were finally dislodged after 36 hours of heroic resistance. The occupation began in June when police were brought onto the campus to crush a protest against authoritarian discipline. The spring entrance exams for Tokyo University havi been cancelled. In Kyoto Maoists who tried to hold a meeting of solidarity with the Tokyo occupation were attacked by revisionists 163 people welwere hurt. Militant students are building up for the 1970 debate on renewing the Treaty with the USA. Militants in power on campusses. PHILLIPINES 20 - all schools closed as 9,000 Manila. Jan students injured when hundreds clashed with police in protest. against the dismissal of four of their comrades. On another demonstration 10,000 students and small shopkeepers protested peacefully against social and academic conditions. - student demonstrations in other Egyptian Alexandria alone. and freedom of solution to university Jan
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TURKEY Istanbul and Ankara universities occupied
South Vietnam; later organised protest at Hussein's attacks on Palestine guerrillas.
PAKISTAN Students have played leading role in riot
SOUTH AFRICA NUSAS has waged a constant fight against