1. MAY 68
Students from Spain

2. GENERATION
OF 68
The Generation of 68 was the protagonist of student revolts. A
youth group calling for the liberation of women (when feminism
emerged), equality of blacks or dignity of gays. A generation that
changed culture and art. Music became an anthem, political issues
entered the theatre, and pop art changed the idea that people had of
art. Meanwhile, in politics, the Vietnam War, the assassination of
Martin Luther King or the popular uprisings against Soviet tanks
during what the "Prague Spring" marked the thinking and acting of
the Generation of 68.

3. THE CONTEXT OF 68 IN SPAIN
Spain still dominated by the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, the
student movement became booming since 1968.
The Spanish University was the only institution that no longer disturbed
Franco. Its young, rebellious and idealistic character crystallized mainly in
two key turns but the first, in 1956, wasn't a small skirmish in Madrid and
Barcelona. Three great movements in Spain, specifically accused 68: the
student movement, the new labor movement and the feminist movement.

4. DUETOTHE CONTEXT OFTHISTIME IN
SPAIN
For Spanish people, May 68 was relatively distant.
But Franco's regime made a partial use of facts reflecting them only their
appearance of anarchy,manner and form of the basic tenets of that brief
revolution, at least for those who learned about it through the Spanish press,
were ignored.
On May 1st, the Communist Party of Spain held a day of action.The
demonstrations were the most impact posed as cultural events in solidarity
with the workers' mobilizations, particularly Raimon 's concerts, which
made possible the convocation.

5. 68 AS SOCIAL AND GENERATION CHANGE
68 represented a later attack youth WWII that although they were receiving educational
training with a much higher level than that of their parents, they didn'tf ind place in a
society they saw as bad, full of conventions and in need of change.
Above all, 68 is accused of the crisis of traditional values of contemporary society, that
after the passage of the pre-industrial society to industrial society or mass consumer
society.
What began with a specific protest against a university reform ended with the occupation
of developing theatres and several mass demonstrations in the streets of the city.

6. OTHER PROTESTS OF 68
January: Closing of the School of Politics and Economics in Madrid, with sanction
of loss of tuition for all students. In late January the University Police Order
(POU) is created to occupy the campus.
March: police evicts the central building of the University of Santiago, where it
was being celebrated a student assembly. An intense mobilization of Galician
students.
December: student unions between sector union wants to keep the same model and
others, under the influence of the French May, started to promote other forms of
organization and struggles are divided.

7. GENERATIONAL
SUCCESSION
As in other parts of the world, in Spain is also usually indicated the
generational succession of 68 of young people who occupied managerial
positions and political responsibility during the SpanishTransition by a
generation of very different values : 'La movida madrileña', that was a
counterculture movement.

8. OTHER MAY 68
May 68 has been replaced by successive representations; but also as its
disruptive nature has survived in different ways to attempts to annihilation
to forms of amnesia and social manipulation that have tried to cancel,
sociologists who have explained and the former student leaders who have
appropriated the monopoly of memory.

9. MUSIC IN SPAIN
A view of what was happening in other countries, Franco's regime observed
closely the student riots.
The Songwriers became symbols because they allowed boost students' ideas. In
Spain, the music was a vital media with hidden messages.

10. INTERPRETATION OF LEFT WING
GROUPS
Left wing groups wanted to create a new political party but the
obsession with creating the new party through all the policy
initiatives and stifles any attempt to respond with new and
imaginative transformations of capitalism, both economically, with
the destruction of the welfare state, and at the political level, with
the concentration of power in major political parties and the
reduction of the representative space policy, falling far short of the
radical, personal and collective transformation, 68 facts that had
been raised.

11. THE EFFECTS OF 68 IN
SPAIN
It can be said that the effect of 68 in Spain meant a strong radicalization
of movements that were already underway, such as student and the labor
movement, or aided the creation of new ones, such as the movement of
feminists, but failed to link the fight against the dictatorship with the
objective of "socialist" or "anti-capitalist" democracy.
Employers who throughout the decade 60's and early 70's, supported the
crackdown and even, on occasion, asked for more repression against the
leaders yet, shortly before the death of Franco, changed attitude and
prepared to lead an orderly, negotiated transition and monarchy.
That echoes 68 and the idea of "68 cultural revolution" was found lost
ground subscriber in contemporary Spain.