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Peter Linebaugh is an historian. He is the author of The London Hanged and a forthcoming study of the commons called Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of the Commons & Closure, of Love & Terror, of Race & Class, and of Kate & Ned Despard.
The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.
Its most far-reaching provisions aren’t the ones we remember.
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