While we watch the unfolding events in Gaza, hoping desperately for peace after the most terrible two years of bloodshed and horror, a revolution is sweeping the world. Some governments have fallen, others are fighting for survival. The tumult can be seen from Asia to South America and at both ends of the African continent. It is sparked by very different localised events yet it has one key thing in common: the frustrated outrage of a generation emerging into adulthood only to find that it is being betrayed by the older people in power.

These are the Gen Z Protests, arguably the most significant wave of civil unrest seen on the world’s streets since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011. They are taking place in places as distant and distinct as Madagascar – where the president claims a coup is under way – Morocco, Nepal and Peru. But they expose the fury of a blighted generation – born between 1996 and 2010 – growing up in a digital age under the glowering shadows of climate change, economic stagnation and a global pandemic, only to discover that promised hopes of a better future were being stifled by corrupt, inept or shamefully selfish rulers.

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