"Everywhere I hear the sound of marchin', charging feet, cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street."  The words were written in 1968 by Mick Jagger, who said he wrote them after an antiwar rally at the U.S. Embassy in London.  He was inspired by the student rioters in Paris in May 1968.  At that time, protests in various countries of Europe, in the U.S., in Mexico City, and in Brazil were directed against the Vietnam War.  The most spectacular event, the May Days in Paris, was a student-led protest movement that began on March 22, 1968 as an antiwar rally at Nanterre University.  It became a revolt against the political and academic establishment. It is tempting to compare those events on their fiftieth anniversary with the organized demonstrations, the March for Our Lives, on March 24, 2018, protesting gun violence in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the U.S., resulting from the...(Read Full Article)