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<v Speaker 1>On This Day and Working Class History the twenty ninth

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<v Speaker 1>of December film. On the twenty ninth of December nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>sixty eight, the University of Tokyo was forced to cancel

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<v Speaker 1>its nineteen sixty nine entrance exams because it had been

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<v Speaker 1>paralyzed by a student strike and a wave of occupations

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<v Speaker 1>which have been ongoing since October. Striking students battled anti

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<v Speaker 1>strike Communist Party students as well as riot police in

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<v Speaker 1>an ongoing conflict over unpaid internships and faculty collaboration with

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<v Speaker 1>the police. And the sources maps and all of our

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<v Speaker 1>anniversaries each day, check out the on This Day section

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<v Speaker 1>of our stories apt at stories, Stopworkingclasshistory dot com, and

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<v Speaker 1>com slash working class History. Links in the show names

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<v Speaker 1>the music by A Decato. I See you Tomorrow.