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1970 Student Strike; 1968 Protests. 1968–69 Japanese university protests; Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968-1968 student demonstrations in Yugoslavia; May 1968 uprisings; Mexican Movement of 1968; 1968 protests in Poland; 1968 East L.A. walkouts; 1965 Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu; 1964-65 U.C. Berkeley Free Speech Movement ...
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, which were predominantly characterized by the rise of left-wing politics, [1] anti-war sentiment, civil rights urgency, youth counterculture within the silent and baby boomer generations, and popular rebellions against military states and bureaucracies.
23 April – surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant operation. May – student strike in May and June developed into widespread and unprecedented protests over poor working conditions and a rigid educational system, which threatened to bring down the government.
Fifty years ago, as France exploded in mass protests, words scrawled on the walls of the Sorbonne summed up the revolutionary zeal of the time: “Run free, comrade, we’ve left the old world ...
Jacques Sauvageot (16 April 1943 in Dijon – 28 October 2017 in Paris) was a French politician and art historian. [1] [2]He was, along with Alain Geismar and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, was one of the spokespersons for the period of May 68, the name given to all the revolt movements that occurred in France during May–June 1968.
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On 2 May 1968 Geismar became one of the leaders of May 68 with Jacques Sauvageot (vice-president of the National Union of Students of France) and Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Mouvement du 22 Mars) [8] and joined the Movement of 22 March on 8 May. By the end of 1968, he was leading a Maoist organization with his partner Benny Lévy, the Gauche ...
Members of the GUD during demonstration in Paris in 2012. GUD was founded in December 1968 under the name Union Droit at Panthéon-Assas University [10] by Alain Robert (homme politique) [], Gérard Longuet, [16] Gérard Ecorcheville and some members of the political movement Occident.