A communist league of students founded in 1948 in Japan, the Zengakuren amassed power over two decades, creating tremendous tensions in the US-Japan Cold War alliance by challenging standard concepts of democracy, peace and the history of imperialism.

In 1986, as in 1968, France saw a massive student movement which ultimately forced Jacques Chirac’s government to abandon plans for greater academic selection. Witness to both movements, Daniel Guérin's 1987 letter on the subject is timely as university occupations spread today.

The 1960s explosions in Greece and Turkney were neither of the First or Third Worlds, the core or the periphery: they combined elements of both.

At least a decade before the “Global 68,” students in Guatemala and elsewhere around the world were leading their own political struggles and connecting them with others.

Thai society was profoundly influenced by the wave of struggles throughout the world around 1968 — but there was a slight time-lag, with radicalisation reaching its peak in the 1970s.

"We, filmmakers, call on ourselves to bite, to film, and to defend this territory which is beaten and hits back."