The 1960s counterculture reached its political peak in the 1970s, not the decade itself.

Evidence

But, as Beckett argues, this “fails to acknowledge that for many politicised Britons, the decade was not the hangover after the Sixties; it was the point when the great Sixties party actually started”. The successful Miners’ Strike of 1972 saw an alliance between the striking miners and students that echoed similar convergences in Paris 1968, with the miners using the University of Essex’s Colchester campus as their East Anglian base. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1383

Categorization

• QUESTION: How standard is the ‘seventies as real sixties’ periodization across Left historiography, and does it hold for the US as well as Britain?