1968 is back. But today's protesters are a different breed

The parallels with the student revolts of 1968 are striking. But today's Gen Z protesters lack the ideological ambition, organisation and political clout of their predecessors.

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An economic crisis in the air. Unemployment on the rise. The country’s major industrial sector facing mass layoffs. Fear of the rise of an autocratic superpower in the East. Anger over an unpopular US war. A ‘grand coalition’ of CDU and SPD in parliament, alongside a rising far right. Young people taking to the streets in fury over the stand…