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1971

February

Resignation of René Viénet, French section.

July

23 Gianfranco Sanguinetti is expelled from France by the Ministry of the Interior.

September

Second edition of The Society of the Spectacle is published by Éditions Champ Libre, Paris, in unaltered form in response to the unauthorized addition of the subtitle Situationist Theory to a reprint by the book's original publisher Éditions Buchet/Chastel.

Complete facsimile edition of all twelve issues of Internationale Situationniste. Van Gennep, Amsterdam.

Exclusion of René Riesel, 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).