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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 ...
A group of 500 students at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, protested against the closure of Paris University at Nanterre and the proposed expulsion of some students. [19] Police arrived to disperse the protesters, and "the first riot of mai 68 ensued" and led to riots and university closures across the country. [20]
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 ...
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.
On 16 May, upon hearing about the successful occupation of the Sud-Aviation factory at Nantes by the workers and students of that city, [2] as well as the spread of the movement to several factories (Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne in Paris, Renault in Cléon), [2] the Sorbonne Occupation Committee sent out a communiqué calling ...
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.
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