mass movement of students in the United States against war becomes the spark for a global series of student protests. The protests come out of a wider movement and feed back into it, radicalising it as they do so.
The business-centred administrations of the universities are challenged by the students’ demands. The authorities’ attempts to deal with the protests lead to further radicalisation.
These are observations about the student movement now still unfolding in solidarity with Palestine, but they could as well be a historical account of the student protests over the Vietnam War.
The similarities are striking.
In the 1960s, the student anti-war movement was largest in the US, but became global. Today the same pattern is emerging……more
