The classrooms are empty and the streets are full

the student mobilizations of 1972

Abstract

From 1965 the Spanish University will become a continuous focus of opposition to the regime to the ancient academic structures. Little by little all the university districts will join the protests that, until then, monopolized Madrid and Barcelona. One of the moments of greatest tension and open confrontation with the academic and government authorities will be 1972. Demonstrations, academic strikes, strikes and other protest actions led to the closure of faculties and entire campuses, disciplinary proceedings, etc. The vindication-repression binomial reached in 1972 one of the most critical and important moments.