A global youthquake is happening. Promises we made young people have been broken – and they know it
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Anger and protest have put liberal democracy on trial. It’s vital to understand the rage that now unites a generation We have not yet reached a 1968 moment, when students at the Sorbonne lit a fuse that detonated a crisis that eventually brought down the De Gaulle government . But in late 2026, starting with the symbolic act of young French people climbing the July Column at Paris’s Place de la Bastille, the world is experiencing the biggest outbreak of student demonstrations for 60 years. When Italian students subsequently occupied a high school in Rome, they opened their demand for change…
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A global youthquake is happening. Promises we made young people have been broken – and they know it | Gordon Brown
Anger and protest have put liberal democracy on trial. It’s vital to understand the rage that now unites a generation We have not yet reached a 1968 moment, when students at the Sorbonne lit a fuse that detonated a crisis that eventually brought down the De Gaulle government...
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