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 ...

“Is this another May-June 1968?” This question has repeatedly been raised recently in the French and international media. Even before last Saturday, when 1.5 million people participated in 160 ...

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 ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Pascale Duparc Portier of the National University of Ireland (Galway) Faculty of Law says that the mass protests in France against the new First Employment Contract (CPE) ...

The current riots are the worst civil unrest France has seen since 1968. Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne report that the 1968 riots began with a series of student demonstrations in Paris. When people ...

BRANDISHING a Viet Cong flag, she stands with her torso above the crowd filling the Luxembourg Gardens. Her eyes lifted, her expression serious and confrontational, she looks like she is about to ...

Fredy Perlman article that originally appeared in Freedom 1968.

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 ...