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1967
January
Et ça ne fait que commencer (And That's Just the Start of It), tract by the SI (signed by Jean Garnault and Théo Frey) and the AFGES (signed by André Schneider and Bruno Vayr-Piova), Strasbourg.
11 Avis (Notice), flyposter announcing the closure of the Strasbourg University Psychological Aid Centre (BAPU) by the AFGES "considering that the BAPU's are the manifestation in the student milieu of a repressive psychiatry's parapolice control, whose obvious function is to maintain [...] the passivity of all exploited sectors."
15 Exclusion of the Garnautins (Théo Frey, Jean Garnault and Herbert Holl), French section. Because of her solidarity with the Garnautins, Édih Frey is also excluded.
22 Attention! Trois provocateurs (Warning! Three Provocateurs), tract explaining the exclusion of the Garnautins, signed by Michèle Bernstein, Guy Debord, Mustapha Khayati, J.V. Martin, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Raoul Vaneigem and René Viénet, Paris.
Winter
Sexologie de la misère. Misere de la sexologie (The Sexology of Poverty and the Poverty of Sexology), tract distributed in the university residences of Lyon, Nantes, Paris, Strasbourg and Toulouse.
March
Second edition of On the Poverty of Student Life, Paris. The tract is subsequently published in several languages, including an English edition translated by Christopher Gray and Donald Nicholson-Smith as Ten Days that Shook the University with a postscript ('If you want to make revolution, do it for fun'). An inferior translation by Tony Verlaan later appears in New York, and a third partial translation is published in Seattle. A complete translation is distributed in Sweden, while partial versions appear in radical journals in Spain (Acción Communista) and Italy (Nuova Presenza and Fantazaria).
15 to 24 Ny-irrealisme, Operation Playtime. Exhibition of anti-paintings by Michèle Bernstein (The Victory of the Spanish Republicans) and J.V. Martin (the Golden Ships series), and five Nothing Boxes by René Viénet, Århus, Denmark. J.V. Martin's brochure Ny-irrealism is reprinted in Situationistisk Revolution #2.
April
An SI post office box is opened in New York.
June
Resignation of Michèle Bernstein, French section. Bernstein nevertheless continues her association with the SI for around three years.
August
The Explosion Point of Ideology in China, anonymous tract written by Debord denouncing Mao's Cultural Revolution, Paris, reprinted in Internationale Situationniste #11.
September
Charles Radcliffe of the SI's English section is charged in London with counterfeiting; he has in fact been printing and distributing an anti-Vietnam War tract on a facsimile of a US Dollar.
October
Two fly-poster comics announcing the appearance of IS #11, one designed by André Bertrand, the other by Gérard Joannès, and both featuring the same text by Raoul Vaneigem, lead to Vaneigem and René Viénet being called before a police judiciary for incitations to theft, debauchery, rioting and murder (of rulers). No proceedings follow.
Internationale Situationniste #11. Editor: Debord. Editorial committee: Mustapha Khayati, J.V. Martin, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Raoul Vaneigem.
November
30 The Revolution of Everyday Life, book by Raoul Vaneigem is finally published after nearly two years of editorial procrastination by Éditions Gallimard, Paris.
Resignation of Charles Radcliffe, no section.
December
5 Creation of an American section of the SI composed of Robert Chasse and Tony Verlaan.
21 Exclusions of Timothy Clark, Christopher Gray and Donald Nicholson-Smith, English section.
Vient de paraître (Coming Soon), flyposter of détourned comics announcing the publication of The Society of the Spectacle and The Revolution of Everyday Life.
Resignation of Ndjangani Lungela, French section.
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).
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