Fifty years after the explosive summer of 1965, the reissue of this book is an attempt to restore reality against the myths that have accumulated over the decades. Because the truth is that the most decisive role in the July events was played by ordinary people, workers, and youth who clashed with the monarchy for 70 days and did not let it carry out its plans.

Dimitris Livieratos' diary, written in October 1965, immediately after the events, is the most vivid proof that history is written by the people below and not by the famous. Leandros Bolaris seeks the roots of the explosion of the July events. Maria Styllou provides a comprehensive picture of this "early Greek May" and makes connections to the present and the duties of the labor movement and the Left.

The catalytic struggles of 1-1-4, the 15% for Education, the first Marathons of Peace, the demands of the workers, reached a climax in July '65 and marked all of us who participated in the movement through Neolaia Lampraki.

Reading this book, we older ones remember those terrible days, and the younger ones have the opportunity to learn the true history of our land and people... Without making the unforgivable mistakes that our generation made.

Stefanos Linaeos