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4 Ways ’68 Was About So Much More Than the French May
This month marks the 50th anniversary of a mass uprising of students and workers in France. But as seismic as those events were, it’s important to view the French May as part of something much larger: a two-decade-long global upheaval which shook capitalism the world over.