Dr Mireille Pouget provides a personal account of her experience of May ‘68 as a 16 year-old blocking the entrance to her school, and why she believes the left should not become too “dewy eyed” about that time
I MARVEL that people still remember the events of May ‘68 in France.
CommonSpace journalist Sean Bell explores the role of students in Paris May ‘68, speaking to eyewitness reporter Neal Ascherson about his experience of that time, and comparing that revolt to the student occupations in Scotland this year
MAY, 1968 – the crowded and clashing ideologies it encapsulated, the dreams it inspired, and the unprecedented events which escalated until Paris and beyond seemed on the brink of some audacious new form of revolution – did not appear spontaneously.
CommonSpace journalist Alasdair Clark explores the impact of the global revolt of 1968 in Scotland, looking at what happened and didn’t happen here, and its legacy
1968 is most remembered now for the events in May in Paris, but it was a genuinely global revolt creating political and social earthquakes in Eastern Europe, the US, Mexico and even Pakistan - but what about Scotland?
Beginning in May, the RFN68 will look back to 1968, and consider where we might be in 2068
THE RADICAL FILM NETWORK (RFN) will utilise the 50th anniversary of 1968 and the revolutionary potential it inspired as a “a way to take stock of where we are now, and where we might want to be by 2068.”