As the so-called Gen Z protests have set European cities on fire, particularly in France, commentary has been awash with comparisons to 1968. But the lazy assumption that this is the spirit of the Sixties in new bottles is as flawed as the complacent shrug that ‘this is just what the French do’ – obscuring both the similarities with past waves of youth protest, and the marked differences.
The Gen Z protests are nothing like 1968
