The surrealists did the same.

Interviewee: Neala Schleuning

Well, the surrealists did the same. Breton regularly rejected people from the cooperative. But the SI also had a profound influence on the 1968 student uprisings in France who were again creating in that strike situation autonomous spaces and political situations that were points of cultural confrontation.  A central tactic of the 68’ movement in France was to occupy spaces!