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1969

March

10 A commando of situationists 'returns' a statue of Charles Fourier to its plinth, left vacant since its removal by the Nazis.

June

Situationist International #1. Review of the American section of the SI, New York, USA. Editorial Committee: Robert Chasse, Bruce Elwell, Jonathon Horelick, Tony Verlaan.

July

Internazionale Situationista #1. Review of the Italian section of the Situationist International, Milan. Editor: Gianfranco Sanguinetti. Editorial Committee: Claudio Pavan, Paolo Salvadori, Sanguinetti.

28 Guy Debord announces his intention to step down as editor of Internationale Situationniste.

September

Internationale Situationniste #12. Review of the French Section of the SI. Editor: Debord. Editorial Comittee: Mustapha Khayati, René Riesel, Christian Sébastiani, Raoul Vaneigem, René Viénet.

26 September to 1 October The SI's eighth conference in Venice. Participants: François de Beaulieu, Robert Chasse, Patrick Cheval, Alain Chévalier, Guy Debord, Bruce Elwell, Jon Horelick, Mustapha Khayati, JV Martin, Claudio Pavan, René Riesel, Eduardo Rothe, Paolo Salvadori, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Christian Sébastiani, Raoul Vaneigem, Tony Verlaan, René Viénet.
Resignation of Mustapha Khayati, French section.
Resignation of Bengt Ericson, Scandinavian section.

30 Provisional Statutes of the SI, internal document adopted by the Venice conference.

October

Exclusion of Alain Chévalier, French section.

15 Operations Within the French Section after October 1969, internal document unanimously adopted at a meeting of the French section.

November

19 Avviso al proletario italiano sulle possibilità presetni della rivoluzione sociale (Notice to the Italian Proletariat on Current Possibilities for Social Revolution), tract by the Italian section of the SI, Milan, with an appendix.

December

19 Is the Reichstag Burning?, tract by Gianfranco Sanguinetti signed 'Friends of the International,' Milan.

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).