Of the misery in the student environment considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual and above all intellectual aspects, and of some ways to remedy it.

Of the misery in the student environment —in its genesis, application and practical effects— in addition to one of the most beautiful scandals of the 20th century, the true prelude to May 1968, which is now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

We present, for the use and enjoyment of the young generations, a new translation, by Diego Luis Sanromán, of the famous situationist text, accompanied by some barely known documents related to the booklet: the prologue-epilogue that the English Section of the Situationist International made for the English edition; some texts by Guy Debord and Mustapha Khayati related to writing and editing (as well as the controversy that arose with their commercial reprinting); a text from the is about the Strasbourg scandal; and the comic The Return of the Durruti Column, among other documents. And all this is preceded by an introduction by Miguel Amorós in which he dissects how the so-called Strasbourg Scandal was perpetrated.

[...] The «rebellion of the youth» has been and continues to be the object of authentic journalistic inflation, which makes it the spectacle of a possible «rebellion», given to contemplation to prevent it from being lived, the sphere aberrant —already integrated— necessary for the functioning of the social system; this revolt against society reassures society because it is supposed to remain biased, confined to the apartheid of youth "issues"—just as there would be women's issues or a black issue—and that it will last no longer. what a part of life. In fact, if there is a problem with "youth" in modern society, it is that youth feel the profound crisis of that society more intensely. Product par excellence of modern society, youth is itself modern, either to integrate into it without reservations, or to radically reject it. What should be surprising is not so much that the youth are rebellious, but that the "adults" are so resigned. [...]