1968: a prolect forrevisingthe performance of students in São Paulo brasilian student movement

Abstract

The year 2008 was full of “celebration” about the mythical 1968. Even referring to recent cases historically, universities, newspapers and television networks devoted their attention to the forty years of the largest political demonstration Brazilian student. Besides remembering the student uprising, the paths that led some of its members to the armed struggle, we must think what is left of this movement to contemporary politics. Since the two main student struggles to guarantee excellence of the university and public repudiation of the military regime, namely the current political model in the period, it is interesting how these same people act when they are then members of the political elite. Using as a way of working tools for the study of ‘Oral History’ and ‘Paths of Life “as interviews to develop a path analysis, this research seeks to infer the social structures of the period, through conversations and oral accounts of some of the leaders Student 1968. From personal memories, it is possible to understand the functioning and the various steps of the path of action of components of the ME domes along the military regime, the social, political, historical particularities and the movement and its key leaders. The uniqueness of man is also a way of revealing how people universalized through their lives and their actions, the historical era in which they live, thus revealing hidden pathways still a movement that was also trainer of the contemporary political scene.