Revolt in France Paris 1968 analysis and eyewitness accounts In May 1968 student protests and the brutal police repression of them helped spark off a general strike involving some 12 million workers. You can download, print out and hopefully distribute a PDF booklet that describes these events in detail by going to http://struggle.ws/history/paris68.html When France rebelled People think of revolutions as buried deep in history. Yet in 1968 France was on the verge of a total revolt with 12 million workers on strike, 122 factories occupied, and students fighting against the old moribund system in which they found themselves. Paris May 1968 An eyewitness account from a member of the English libertarian communist organisation Solidarity who visited Paris in May and produced this detailed account of events Read the texts online or print out the PDF booklet from http://struggle.ws/history/paris68.html -- -------- http://www.struggle.ws 3000 + pages on anarchism, Ireland, Zapatistas revolutionary history and struggles around globalistaion
