The Mexico 68 protests were part of a worldwide series of leftwing student-led protests.

The student-led protests have been the broadest pro-reform demonstrations in three years.

The revolution, which took place from November 17 to December 29, 1989, was a largely student-led protest against Communism.

Meanwhile, a campaign of student-led protests, including a call for a general strike on July 7 unless Mladenov resigned, had been gathering support.

The group takes its name from the 8888 Uprising, a series of student-led protests in 1988 opposing the military rule of Ne Win.

US analysts claimed subsequently that the student-led protest had been violently suppressed.

In the six months since student-led protests forced the Government to allow Wednesday's direct presidential election, it is the politicians who have been in the spotlight.

A mostly student-led protest organized sit downs with several members of the school board in order to avoid the change into a block schedule.

Less than one month earlier, a large, student-led protest in Shifang stopped construction on a massive copper smelting plant.

Since student-led protests were crushed by gunfire in September 1988, Myanmar has become a giant political prison.