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Absolutely fascinating when it comes to learning about May 68. If you're trying to research May 68, I highly recommend this book. It takes you through the ideology behind the movement which is integral to understanding the movement.
Extraordinary book capturing May 68--arguably the most important worker-student uprising of the 20the century--and an insightful, forceful critique of Leninism and hierarchical parties designed for operating under dictatorial regimes, not open, nominally democratic societies.
If you think Debord had a huge importance in the May '68 insurrection you would be wrong. It was Cohn-Bendit and this is the book he wrote throughout it all. There is nothing spectacular about this book, but it is important to set the record as straight as possible as to the goings on of the event--even if Debord is more interesting and fun to read.
Finally got around to reading Cohn-Bendit & Cohn-Bendit. It's a great read for many reasons one of which is insight into what French student militants, eg the 22 March Movement, were reading in the 1960s. Cohn-Bendit records the influence of Socialisme ou Barbarie (Castoriadis/Chaulieu/Cardan, Lefort, Gautrat/Mothe, Bourdet, Simon), L'Internationale Situationniste (Debord, Vaneigem), Informations et Liaison Ouvrieres (Lefort, Simon), Noir et Rouge (Bourdet). All these journals advocated workers
