in 1968, morin replaced henri lefebvre at the . he became involved in the student revolts that began to emerge in france. in may 1968 he wrote a series of articles for le monde that tried to understand what he called "the student commune." he followed the student revolt closely and wrote a second series of articles in le monde called "the revolution without a face," as well as coauthoring "mai 68: la brèche" with cornelius castoriadis and claude lefort.