ABSTRACT
The year 1968 witnessed the Paris May revolt, the Prague Spring and the Vietnamese Tet Offensive. Giovanni Arrighi et al. have argued that 1968 was the second real world revolution after 1848 – a revolution that failed, to be sure, but at the same time fundamentally transformed the world. The characterization by Arrighi et al. implies that the wave of protest that swept across the world from 1966–1967 until about 1976 was an aggregate of interconnected movements. The youth movements after 1968 were initially movements of students and sometimes of secondary school pupils. The revival of workers’ and student protest took shape in the mid-1960s. The women’s movement flowered only after 1968. The ‘second feminist wave’ developed in the context of the youth movement, especially the student movement, as a result of the negation by left-wing groups outside parliament.
