The Nation.


Harry Braverman

Harry Braverman, director of Monthly Review Press, was on a European publishing trip in May 1968 when the upheaval broke out in France.

Currently

  • Six Days in Paris

    November 8, 2005

    As hundreds of riots rock the cities and towns of France, the government imposed a curfew Tuesday and the French tried to make sense of the random attacks and acts of arson erupting all over the country. France has not seen such "civil unrest" since 1968, when students occupied the Sorbonne and spilled out into the Latin Quarter to push for university reform and protest the liberal establishment. The students launched nationwide labor strikes, and hundreds of students and police officers were hospitalized.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Popular Topics
Most Searched

Issues »

Most Emailed

Issues »

Blogs

» The Dreyfuss Report

McCain and The Forrestal | Back in '67, McCain did recognize the horror of war. But he chose horror.
Robert Dreyfuss

» Campaign 08

McCain Sticks To The Base | Instead of reaching out to the broader electorate, John McCain cast his lot with the GOP base.
Ari Berman

» Editor's Cut

Inside Palin's Politics | Watch me spar with Republican strategist Barbara Comstock over Sarah Palin--what she represents and where she would lead the country.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» The Beat

The Anti-Republican Who Is Really a Republican | McCain distances himself from Bush rhetorically, but not ideologically or practically.
John Nichols

» The Notion

McCain's "Worst Speech" Panned by Pundits | John McCain's "shockingly bad" speech draws pundit fire.
Ari Melber

» Capitolism

Community Organizers Fight Back | These people are not particularly practiced in taking things lying down.
Christopher Hayes

» ActNow!

Power Vote | New effort to build a green youth voter bloc of one million is growing.
Peter Rothberg

» And Another Thing

Sarah Palin, Wrong Woman for the Job | Seriously, people! Life is not a Lifetime movie.
Katha Pollitt