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Readings and photos from the student uprising at Chomsky’s university, MIT, 1967-1972

Submitted by hedgehog on Jul 28 2016 13:37

1969 student protest at Chomsky's university, MIT

The protests that erupted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1960s were an important part of the student unrest that shook the US in this period.

Noam Chomsky has talked sympathetically about these protests, which focused on MIT's development of both nuclear weapons and weapons used in the Vietnam war. However, Chomsky also has a strong loyalty to MIT – at one point describing the university as ‘the freest and the most honest and has the best relations between faculty and students than any other ... [with] a good record on civil liberties’ – and it seems this loyalty has prevented him from giving a full account of these events.

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Industrial Worker (February 24, 1917)

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Industrial Worker (February 17, 1917)

Articles from the February 17, 1917 (Vol. 1, No. 45, Whole No. 45) issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

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New Trends Vol. 1, No. 3 (November 1945)

The Vol. 1, No. 3 (November 1945) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.

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