[Doug and Max, I thought you might appreciate the second to last paragraph; "ultras" is a great coinage.]
> . . .
Cardenas and other leaders of his party seem
to have lost the influence over the strikers
they once enjoyed. Increasingly, the huge
all-night assemblies where the students
decide their moves have been dominated by
activists from small socialist groups, dubbed
"ultras" by other students within the strike
movement. . . .
I had it first.
The question is, now that some lefts have a sizable group mobilized, where they would take them. In France in '68,\ the protest spread to the working class. If they remain confined to campus, or even worse, do things to antagonize the broader population by blocking traffic, the whole thing fizzles at a relatively low level. If they push the thing into a broader framework, in terms of their own organization, their demands, and their constituencies, then it could get much more interesting.
mbs