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1966

March

Internationale Situationniste #10. Editor: Debord. Editorial committee: Michèle Bernstein, Théo Frey, Mustapha Khayati, J.V. Martin, Raoul Vaneigem.

Bulletin critique de publications préhistoriques volume VIII number 1, 1966, appears with a cover détourned from IS #10 with the intention of deceiving police and customs officials, particularly in Algeria.

May

14 A group of students led by André Schneider is elected to the head of the new bureau of the Strasbourg students' association (AFGES).

July

5 to 11 7th SI Conference in Paris. Participants: Michèle Bernstein, Guy Debord, Édith Frey, Théo Frey, Jean Garnault, Anton Hartstein, Herbert Holl, Mustapha Khayati, Ndjangani Lungela, J.V. Martin, Donald Nicholson-Smith, René Viénet.
Exclusion of Jan Strijbosch, Belgian section, for demanding the return of Rudi Renson, Belgian section, whose inactivity for nearly a year is considered an effective resignation.
Adoption of 'Minimum definition of revolutionary organizations.'

Heatwave #1, London. Editor: Charles Radcliffe.

August

Exclusion of Anton Hartstein, French section.

September

Heatwave #2, London. Editors: Christopher Gray and Charles Radcliffe.

October

26 Psychosociologist and cybernetician Abraham Moles' inaugural class at Strasbourg is interrupted in its first few minutes by ten students who throw tomatoes and chase him from his lecturn.

Le retour de la colonne Durruti (Return of the Durruti Column), a détourned comic by André Bertrand (AFGES), announcing the forthcoming publication of 'the most scandalous brochure of the century,' is posted on the walls of Strasbourg.

November

22 Distribution at the official opening of Strasbourg University of the brochure On the Poverty of Student Life, Considered in its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual and Especially Intellectual Aspects, with a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With It, published by the AFGES and the French National Students Union (UNEF) as a special supplement to 21-27 Étudiants de France, edited by members of the SI (principally by Mustapha Khayati) and the students of Strasbourg.

24 AFGES press conference.

December

13 The Strasbourg county court sequesters the offices and management of the AFGES.

This chronology has been adapted and expanded from Jean-Jacques Raspaud and Jean-Pierre Voyer, L'Internationale Situationniste: Chronologie, bibliographie, protagonistes (avec un index des noms insulté) (Paris: Champ Libre, 1972); Christophe Bourseiller, Vie et mort de Guy Debord (Paris: Plon, 1999); and Guy Debord, Correspondance (volumes 1, 2 & 3) (Paris: Arthème Fayard, 1999, 2001 & 2003).