ABSTRACT
No year has been written about more in relation to student activism, no year is more mythologized or brings more sighs of melancholic yearning to aging activists, than what has come to be known as the Year of the Student, 1968. From Paris to Tokyo, Mexico City to Dakar, in one single year students staged an unprecedented number of major resistance actions, actions that dramatically changed the course of their respective nations and the world; students all over the globe pushed their individ-- ual movements to crisis points as the international media watched, reported, and capitalized on their stories, applauding or condemning the movements' issues, strategies, and heroes. Many of the actions begun in 1968 continued in 1969 (and indeed, some of the most impor-- tant effects of 1968 student actions weren't felt until the 1970s), but as for a historical moment that crystallized the global power of the stu-- dent-1968 is it.
