Incidents The 1968 movement in Italy or Sessantotto was inspired by distaste or discontent with traditional Italian society and by similar international protests.
The movement has its roots in the strikes and university occupations of the 1960s, along with international headlines about socialist political triumphs in the Cold War.
[2] Students of working or peasant backgrounds mainly drove the movement in an effort to change traditional capitalist and patriarchal society.
[3] The unrest began with student protests which were initially underestimated by politicians and the press; this soon turned into "the struggle of workers.
[6] The counter-cultural attitudes of the movement ended up creating conflicts within the Italian Left.