num_pages: 240
description: Q: You threw paving stones at [the cops]?A: Oh yeah. I had no problem doing that. And I threw marbles as well that we stole from stores. And towards the end we even managed to steal tractors from construction sites and we knocked over trees with them.The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting dangerous creative and influential changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated workers went on general strike and factories and universities were occupied. Before it was all over children homemakers and the elderly were swept up in the life-changing events that targeted bureaucratic capitalism and the staid Communist Party. The French state was on the ropes and feared civil war or revolution. Decades later here are the eye-opening oral testimonies of those young rebels who demanded the impossible.Published on the 50th anniversary of those momentous events May Made Me presents the legacy of the uprising: how those explosive experiences changed both the individual and history.
language: English
title: May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France
publisher: AK Press