Paris May 1968

In Paris in May 1968, massive confrontations between police and students brought workers out on a general strike and brought the government to the point of collapse. Here is a collection (Via Plep) of documents from the period.
Among the slogans approved by the students occupying the Sorbonne was this one:

HUMANITY WON'T BE HAPPY TILL THE LAST BUREAUCRAT IS HUNG WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST CAPITALIST .

Kinda catchy, don't you think?


What brought things to a boil was the invasion of the Sorbonne by the police. The institution had never been occupied even during the Nazi occupation. Labour joined the students to protest this violation. There was an attempt by the conservative media to brand student leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit as a foreign Jew. This backfired when Parisians took to the streets chanting, "We are all Jews". They brought down the DeGaulle government. Those were the days when people felt they could change the world and they did.