Protesters in bed during an eight-week sit-in: John Walmsley’s best photograph
‘By the end of the protest, the art school was entirely shut down, the electricity had been cut off and the governors were unsuccessfully applying for a court order to have us evicted’
November 2018
The Beatles’ White Album captured the spirit of ’68, but it’s right for 2018 too
John Harris
The Beatles’ epic creation reflected the political darkness and disquiet of the time, giving it surprising resonance today, says Guardian columnist John Harris
August 2018
When the photographer who shot the Beatles captured the moment the Vietnam war came home
Prague 1968: lost images of the day that freedom died
May 2018
From the Guardian archive
Paris students meet with brutal repression – archive, 1968
29 May 1968: During these past three weeks, the riot police were not just called out to contain demonstrators; they were let loose on the population
Where are all the revolutionaries of 1968? They’re long gone
Martin Kettle
Fifty years ago, hundreds of thousands marched in Paris. But the year did not spark the political and economic power changes it promised, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Spirit of ’68 bows to market forces as rebel icons go on sale
Posters that fuelled the revolutionary fervour of Paris 50 years ago are being snapped up by collectors
April 2018
Observer dispatch
The spirit of 1968 rises again: can French students and workers triumph?
From the Guardian archive
Archive: Paris students in savage battles – 1968
March 2018
My part in the anti-war demo that changed protest for ever
Fifty years ago this week, Donald Macintyre was one of 246 anti-Vietnam war protesters arrested in London’s Grosvenor Square…
May 2017
'Godard is not God!' … Michel Hazanavicius on his film about France's most notorious director
The women, the films, the fights, the flops … the director of The Artist has risked infuriating France with Redoubtable – a hilarious drama about Jean-Luc Godard
March 2017
Caroline de Bendern: 'leave campaign was lies and xenophobia'
Activist, who became symbol of 1968 protests after waving Vietnamese flag in Paris, takes to streets again – to oppose Brexit
February 2017
Spirit of 68: French countercultural art – in pictures
After the protests of May 1968 failed to generate lasting political change, French artists developed a fierce and funny new language – one based around irony and violence
August 2014
My best shot
Bruno Barbey's best photograph: the Paris protests of 1968
Bruno Barbey: 'I went with Cartier-Bresson to buy helmets to protect our heads from stones. But they made it impossible to use our Leicas'
May 2014
Pictures from the past
May Day march, Paris, 1968 - a picture from the past
Gérard Aimé, a student activist at the University of Nanterre, was well-placed to document the turbulent events that unfolded in Paris in May 1968
June 2013
Mad Men is fun TV, but I'm glad I don't live in the 1960s
Sarah-Jane Stratford
From the Guardian archive
From the archive, 15 June 1968: British students talk about a revolution
May 2013
Something in the Air (Après Mai) – review
Olivier Assayas seems to be dramatising his own youth with this beautiful-looking account of the soixante-huitard aftermath – but politics give way too easily to nostalgia, writes Peter Bradshaw
March 2013
French 'boat schools' rape trial opens
Leonid Kameneff's L'Ecole en Bateau alternative education project arrives in Paris court decades after alleged sex abuse
May 2011
From the Guardian archive
From the archive, 07 May 1968: Paris students in savage battles
Originally published in the Guardian on 7 May 1968: At least 10,000 students riot in Paris on a scale unequalled in post-war years
