Os Cangaceiros was a group of working class revolutionaries

who emerged from the student/worker riots and occupations in France of May 1968. Coming together in Nice, France, Os Cangaceiros – or Les Fossoyeurs du vieux monde (Gravediggers of the Old World) as they were also known were characteristic of the new antagonistic social movements in post-may Europe that demanded nothing short of an “End of Politics”. Described in local Newspa- pers as “hooligans” and “juvenile delinquents”, they had no formal structure but formed a collective of individual desires capable of finding expression in one another.

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