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1970

January

17 to 19 Delegates conference in Wolsfield and Trier, East Germany. Participants: JV Martin, Claudio Pavan, René Riesel, Tony Verlaan.
Exclusion of Robert Chasse and Bruce Elwell, American section.

19 Report from the Delegates Conference Held in Wolsfield and Trier, 17 to 19 January 1970, bilingual internal document in French and English signed by Martin, Pavan, Riesel and Verlaan.

February

20 Exclusion of Claudio Pavan, Italian section.

March

Notes on the SI's Direction, internal document by Raoul Vaneigem.

April

21 Exclusion of Eduardo Rothe, Italian section.

Summer

Forced resignation of François de Beaulieu, French section.

Resignation of Patrick Cheval, French section.

July

27 Remarks on the SI Today, internal document by Guy Debord.

September

18 Exclusion of Paolo Salvadori, Italian section.

21 Formation of the 'Tendency for the Truth of our Practice' by Jon Horelick and Tony Verlaan, American section.

October

The Workers of Italy and the Revolt in Reggio Calabria, tract by Gianfranco Sanguinetti in the name of the Italian section of the SI, Milan.

Reprint of the tract Is the Reichstag Burning?

Situationistisk Revolution #3, bulletin of the Scandinavian section of the SI, Randers, Denmark. Editor: JV Martin.

November

11 Declaration by Guy Debord, René Riesel and René Viénet announcing the formation of a tendency within the SI.

14 Resignation of Raoul Vaneigem, French section.

29 Exclusion of Jon Horelick and Tony Verlaan, American section.

December

Resignation of Christian Sébastiani, French section.

8 Gianfranco Sanguinetti declares his solidarity with the November 11 tendency.

9 Regarding Vaneigem, circular by the French section of the SI, Paris.

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).