"You put us 64, we re-May 68"
Among all the slogans written in capital letters on the placards and banners held up by high school students and students in front of their schools and universities, as in the demonstrations, this sentence stands out .
Will the mobilization against the pension reform project constitute a new May 68?
Young activists hope so.
"
If it continues, it's good.
The anger comes from further than this reform.
It's everything that young people go through that brings them to the streets
,” says Colin Champion, president of the La Voix lycéenne union.
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For now, however, May 68 is still a long way off.
If the Unef evokes 150,000 young people mobilized on January 31, a police source ensures that in this age group, the subject does not unleash passions.
“
They are visible, but we cannot say that they are massively associated with the movement
”, confirms political scientist Pascal Perrineau, professor emeritus of universities…
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