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Humanity's last rage

Humanity's last rage

Was it a great beginning . . . or just the final great street festival before the darkness closed in? Peter Wilby wonders whether the year changed everything - or nothing at all

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Noam Chomsky on 1968

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All along the watchtower

All along the watchtower

It was a year of horror and bad faith

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Are you a 1968 sell-out?

Test yourself - are you still true to the spirit of 1968?

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A boys' year

A boys' year

It was men who led the demos. We weren't aware of what would soon be called women's liberation, writes Anna Coote. But then we caught the mood . . .

The French revolution

The French revolution

In May '68, Paul Johnson, the then editor of the New Statesman, extolled Parisian student power in an impassioned article, abridged here, entitled "The new spectre haunting Europe"

Eric Hobsbawm on 1968

The Marxist historian casts his eyes back 40 years

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Signs of the times

Signs of the times

An exhibition of posters and photographs from the Paris rebellion is irresistible, but tricky out of context

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Tony Benn: 1968 and me

Tony Benn: 1968 and me

So, where was the Labour Party in the year of revolution and street protests? The great conscience of the left recalls a time when even he was considered a "fascist"

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Cast the first Stone

Cast the first Stone

Sway Zachary Lazar Jonathan Cape, 272pp, £11.99

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The Crouch End Commune

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Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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