What trade unionists call a “convergence of struggles” does not always come from where you might expect. Many people have been looking in the rear-view mirror of history as if the tumultuous events of May 1968 – whose anniversary we will soon be marking – could reproduce themselves 50 years later. But the events and industrial action of today are not a repeat of past protests but the potential culmination of a lengthy sequence of events.
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