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May '68 French Revolution - two posters

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Protest Posters: | Alice's Tea and Yellowcake 1977 | Garage Graphics | Getting a head on the dole 1982 | Joe Gomez 1967-8 | International Women's Day 1920+ | Mary Callaghan 1975-89 | Ooh Aah Dance Poster 1979 | OZ magazine 1964-71 | Paris May 68 | Redback Graphix 1979-2002 | Steel City Pictures | Toby Zoates 1977-2024 | Yanni Stumbles 1980-86 | Witchworks, Wollongong 1980-84 | Wollongong in Posters I , II | [ Tuesday Morning at the Factory Gates - United Front - General Public and Workers ], Ateliers Populaire, Sorbonne University, Paris, 28 May 1968. 1. The fine arts are dead Something strange happened in France during 1968, reaching a crescendo in the month of May. University students, workers and members of the general public participated in a series of protests, demonstrations, occupations and strikes which took the country to the verge of a popular revolution and ultimately resulted in the near downfall of the government of the day (Touraine 1971). Encounter...