A 1986 French student campaign that led the government to drop its university reform plan frames Al Jazeera’s comparison between today’s youth protests and a generation now holding power.
Published Oct. 28, Al Jazeera recounts that a student campaign led France’s government to abandon its university reform plan in 1986. The campaign’s outcome gives the report a concrete historical example of student action prompting a policy reversal.
Al Jazeera says some people now running France belong to the generation that achieved that earlier change. The video connects that earlier victory with today’s young people seeking to be heard.
