On this day in 1968, the May 68 Rebellion, the largest general strike in French history, began when school officials shut down the University of Paris after months of student protests, escalating to nationwide unrest.
In mid-March, leftist students had occupied an administration building there, although they left peacefully after their demands were published. On May 6th, more than 20,000 students, teachers, and supporters engaged in a protest march. The march was attacked by police and devolved into a riot.
The state repression of protesters caused two major left union federations, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and the Force Ouvrière (CGT-FO), to call a one-day general strike on May 13th. More than one million people demonstrated that day.
By the middle of May, demonstrations had extended to factories, though their demands were different from the students'. Across France, students occupied university structures and up to one-third of the country's workforce was on strike.
The protests were so widespread and energetic that many political leaders feared civil war or revolution. President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to Germany at one point, and the national government at times ceased to function.
Revolution was averted when de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled an election that the left dissidents agreed to participate in. Revolutionary fervor subsided and the government banned a number of leftist organizations in the following months.
In the election, de Gaulle's party won the greatest victory in French parliamentary history, taking 353 of 486 seats versus the Communists' 34 and the Socialists' 57.
How Beautiful It Was - Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was/
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I genuinely dont understand people that arent into some kind of subculture's ideas about fashion. Bro dudes dress like my dad and have since the mid 90s or so. They all still wear polo shirts and all have the same shit haircut and sweatpants. The polo collar may not be popped, the shit haircut is thst broccoli thing, but in the end, its the same Default Guy look for a long time now. Most millennial did NOT have an emo phase and it was used as a pejorative mostly. Skinny jeans meant you were gay. Most people also didnt dress like hipsters and that was also an used mostly as an insult.
What does get my goat that has happened is the internet turning all subculture into an empty aesthetic or a fetish. There are people in the diy punk scene that think its okay to buy premise crust pants. Crust pants become that way by having one pair of pants and repairing it over the course of a long time. They are fucking weebs about Japanese punk, a dude I know bought a baphomet necklace off the internet cause he saw Kawakami from Disclose wearing one in a picture. He died in 2006. And I dont think I even need to talk about the Goth Girls thing. It sucks. Like, used to be you could tell a bit about a punk at a glance by looking at their band patches if you were in the know cause most punk bands are quite up front about their politics and philosophy. You knew someone with a GG Allin backpatch would be different from someone with a Crass backpatch. There is like...meaning behind this stuff, people weren't just doing it to look cool, they were doing it to look cool as well as other stuff. Everyone is a poser now
Fr this. I hate getting lumped in with things I personally never took part in and made fun of at the time like stomp clap hey music. I hated that shit. As for fashion, I suck at it so I just wore whatever was sold or was easy.
Most of this stuff wasn't even stuff we liked, it was from stuff marketers thought we liked. And because such a small subsection of millennials actually had money, that boiled down to catering to a subsection of rich kids that might as well have been living in a different world
It's like if the entirety of zoomers got blamed for looksmaxxing culture. Hell, I already see stuff called zoomer cringe and I hate that too.
sorry, I'm acting like a ranting old person, but man, why can't people stop shaming each other over stuff that doesn't matter, you know?
I was deep into the diy punk thing and fashion is a big part of it whether anyone wants to admit it or not, but a big part of that is having your look be legit. Like it was fine if your pants werent ripped up if you didnt do anything to rip them up. Ripping em up so they'd look cool and being found out about it was the sin. But being homemade, but also with a bit of a thing for doing a good job abkut it, but in a good way. Someone saw my stencil and fabric paint patches and taught me where the punk screenprinting place was and how to do it so my look improved. I had local fashion designers making shit for me for a bit in my early 20s cause they liked my hot homeless guy look. So...I am pretty clothing and fashion aware and it's like any artistic thing thst you get to know well enough, you know fake bullshit when you see it. People can wear whatever they want of course but I think the same principle applies where making it your own and personalizing things does a huge amoint towards looking cool and feeling cool in your clothes. When you can just buy it all prefab it isn't yours cause you didnt make it. Most of my clothing is completely unique to me whether it being a shirt I made printed myself and cut the collar off cause I hate shirt collars or mt jean jacket where my arms pop out at the mid wrist cause its been dry rotting for 15 years and looks cool af cause of the wear. You can't just buy that kind of look, it'll look wrong. Like jeans with holes already in em