
Indignados protest, 2011. Photo: Fotomovimiento/Flickr. CC-BY-2.0. Some rights reserved.
Capitalist adventurer Richard Branson and cultural and political rebel Tariq Ali were both shaped by the experiences of 1968 – and, significantly, the years that preceded and followed it. These rebellious years shaped a generation but produced ways of thinking that, in retrospect, have turned out to be complex and ambivalent.