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HISTORY IN PICTURES

ONE FIGHT IN PARIS
A policeman hurls a tear gas canister at the oncoming
crowd as student discontent became student riot.
Though dressed in left-wing rhetoric, ‘May 1968’
(which actually lasted from 2 May to 23 June) was
an explosion of frustration against conservative
French society. “I’m a Marxist – of the
Groucho tendency,” is the slogan that
sums it up the best.
1968

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