Mustapha Khayati

Content by or about Mustapha Khayati, a Tunisian social critic and former member of the Situationist International. Though collaborating with other Situationists, he was the chief author of the pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life.

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A Particularly Vile and Clumsy Manoeuvre by Some Anti-Situationists

On the impersonation of Mustapha Khayati. From Internationale Situationniste #12 (September 1969).

The Alsatian Ideology

On the fallout from the exclusion of the "Garnautins" (Strasbourg students) from the S.I. From Internationale Situationniste #11 (October 1967).

Anatomy of a scandal – Miguel Amorós

An account of the “Strasbourg Scandal” of 1966—widely recognized as a precursor to the greater scandal of May 1968—its background, its…

Mustapha Khayati with Alice Becker-Ho 1966

Class Struggles in Algeria

Published clandestinely in Algeria as a pamphlet, December 1965; trans. by Ken Knabb

phtoto of SI meeting in Paris 1966

Captive Words: Preface to a Situationist Dictionary - Mustapha Khayati

Preface to a Situationist Dictionary. From Internationale Situationniste #10 (March 1966).

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The Algeria of Daniel Guérin, Libertarian

Mustapha Khayati responds to Daniel Guerin's writing on Algeria. From International Situationniste #10 (March 1966).

Houari Boumedienne (1966) by Erling Mandelmann

Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries

"Proletarian revolutions . . . pitilessly scoff at the hesitations, weaknesses and inadequacies of…

Two Local Wars

The Arab-Israel war was a dirty trick pulled by modern history on the good conscience of the Left, which was communing in the great spectacle of its protest against the Vietnam war. The false consciousness that saw in the NLF the champion of "socialist revolution" against American imperialism could only get entangled and collapse amidst its insurmountable contradictions when it had to decide between Israel and…

covers of on the poverty of student life pamphlets from England, Sweden, America, Spain and France from 1967

Our Goals and Methods in the Strasbourg Scandal

The SI's account of the publication and distribution of the On The Poverty of Student Life pamphlet at Strasbourg University and the ensuing…

Setting Straight Some Popular Misconceptions About Revolutions in the Underdeveloped Countries - Mustapha Khayati

Mustapha Khayati on revolutions in colonised countries.

On the Poverty of Student Life or De la misère en milieu étudiant

On the poverty of student life

On the poverty of student life considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest…