K-Groups (Germany)
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K-Groups is a term referring to various small, Maoist organizations and political parties that sprang up in West Germany at the end of the 1960s, following the collapse of the Socialist German Student
A K-Group in Freiburg at a May Day demonstration (May 1, 1972)
New Left
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The New Left was a broad political movement that emerged from the counterculture of the 1960s and continued through the 1970s. It consisted of activists in the Western world who, in reaction to the er
K-Groups (Germany)
…Socialist German Students' Union (SDS), and general collapse of the West German student movement. K-Groups played a particularly important role within the New Left in West Germany during the first half of the 1970s. The term "K-Group" was used primarily by competing left-wing groups and in the media. It served as…
Herbert Marcuse, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, is celebrated as the "Father of the New Left".
A 1966 Students for a Democratic Society pamphlet
Abbie Hoffman, leader of the countercultural protest group the Yippies
A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an anti-Vietnam War protest in Arlington, Virginia, 21 October 1967.