Freedom In Solidarity

An Algerian student in France witnesses, and joins, the May '68 uprising.Kadour Naïmi came from Algeria to study in France in 1966, four years after his country's liberation from colonial rule and two years before a different liberation movement exploded in France. Capturing the youthful enthusiasm and revolutionary earnestness of the young rebels he joined, Naïmi's account of May '68 is a memoir like no other. Spirited and inspiring, it manages transmit important historical lessons amid stories of sex, studies, and street-fighting. This is his first book published in English.