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IT IS the 50th anniversary of the events of 1968, events that shook the world, west and east, and did a good deal to give rise to many of the ideas and movements, from women’s and gay liberation to a new left politics, that were to be key features of the decades that followed.
For example, they certainly informed the socialist politics of the current leadership of the Labour Party.
How 1968 is remembered and assessed 50 years on is, as it were, up for grabs.
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