Fifty years ago in Paris, the weather was beautiful: everyone who participated in what has since been called “the events” has this memory, at least, in common. Evenings were particularly mild and ...
In March 1968, a journalist from France's Le Monde newspaper claimed that the French were too bored to take part in the upheaval that had begun sweeping other countries that year. There was peace and ...
A police officer confronts defiant students on the Boulevard Saint-Michel during the first day of violent clashes in Paris on May 6, 1968. In all, 1,045 civilians were wounded during what became known ...
Just six weeks after France’s leading newspaper, Le Monde, pronounced that the country was “bored,” too bored to join the youth protests underway in Germany and in the United States, students in Paris ...
In April-May 1968, I participated in the student occupation of Columbia University as a PhD candidate, and SDS activist and Junior Faculty member. 2 The 50th Anniversary of “The Battle for Morningside ...
On Sunday, the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) of France held a public meeting in Paris, titled “50 years after the May 1968 general strike, how to mount a Trotskyist struggle against Macron?” Students ...
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of May 1968, the Macron government had been making plans to commemorate this historic uprising by celebrating how it had purportedly contributed to the liberal ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
Students are again occupying universities and workers are protesting an overhaul of the state railway. "The struggle is still the same," says a... In France, The Protests Of May 1968 Reverberate Today ...