War, Protest and Politics

France and Paris

Opposition to de Gaulle and the Paris student scene before May 1968.

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The 1967 Protests in France Against the De Gaulle Government

Opposition to de Gaulle in 1967 showed in a near-loss in the March elections, strikes and union anger over social security, but the mass revolt came in May 1968.

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The 1967 Protests in Paris: A Student Uprising

The Paris student uprising was in 1968, not 1967. This article traces the Nanterre tensions of 1967, Cohn-Bendit, the Missoffe incident and the May barricades.

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The 1967 Protests in Paris: A Year of Student Activism

Paris student politics in 1967: UNEF and the Fouchet reforms, Maoist and Trotskyist groups, the Vietnam committee and the Strasbourg Situationist scandal of 1966.

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