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| Protesters clash with policemen in London: a sample of what would be 1968 |
It was March of 1968. So, there was no May of Paris or Spring of Prague. But in London the year was beginning with protests and riots.
On March 17th happened a manifestation anti Vietnam War that was considered a "premiere" of the waves of protests that were a landmark of 1968. A group of thousands of British youth protesters marched from Trafalgar Square to Grosvenor Square, where the acctress Vanessa Redgrave delivered a letter of protest against the was to the American embassy. It seemed that after this the manifestation was over. But not at all.
The crowd refused to disperse. More, people started to attack the police and the reaction was immediate -- as a result, a battle between protesters and policemen took place. The violence shocked everyone and by the end of afternoon more than 200 people had been arrested.
The battle was considered one of the main evidences that 1968 would be evetything but a "regular year". Protests spread in many parts of the world, from Paris to Mexico City, from Prague to Washington, and included Japan, Brazil, Argentine...
As says Chris Morris, who photographed the protest in London for an Italian magazine, "it was a year that showed what was possible". He thinks that, remembering what happened in London at that time, became clear that "every generation must find its own 1968".
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