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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Chris Hall

Are the students still revolting? An investigation into college life, 1972

Revolutionary spirit… Europe’s students in 1972.
Revolutionary spirit… Europe’s students in 1972. Photograph: Bruno Barbey

Nowadays students have been more or less neutered by being sacrificed on the altar of consumerism, but in the 60s there was a wave of campus rebellions, most famously in 1968 when the students of Paris ‘almost succeeded in detonating a social revolution’.

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