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Mark May ’68 with real talk
I would like to see President Macron commemorate May 1968 with open debates across all French universities, on the themes which became the main focus of the 1968 uprising.
The future of the industrial society, the consumer society, and growing social alienation, which not only relate to France but the world. It is the young who will face the next 50 years and need to find solutions.
Charles Simpson-Mariott, Haute-Vienne