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Includes Long Live Adventurism! from L’Archibras, June 18, 1968; Letters from François-René Simon, Marie-Dominique Massoni, Jean Benoît and Michel Zimbacca; with a Statement in Defense of the Students, June-July 1968 The essay is a brief examination into surrealist activities in 1968, triangulated between Prague, Paris, and Chicago and anchored to two key surrealist texts, The Prague Platform and Situation of Surrealism in the U. S. The intention is to show how surrealism responded to and participated in the electric events of ‘68, and to suggest how an understanding of the movement’s past can help instigate the next tremors to run through the atmosphere. To paraphrase Lautréamont, it is only a matter of having the awareness and insolence to accept them. Historians will argue about the degree to which the global rebellions of ´68 can be linked together or what (if any) catalysts triggered the transnational movements. But there can be no mistaking the pronounced cross-pollination of surrealist ideas and activities in ‘68.