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Around 1968, peasants came to contest agricultural policy and governmental decisions. They took part in the general protest movements in specific ways, in several regions and at various moments. Some also criticized traditional agricultural trade unionism, and tried to transform it or to provide an alternative to it. Protesting union members produced analyses of agriculture and of the situation of peasants, sometimes inspired by Marxism, as was the case with Bernard Lambert. Some of the militants defended farmers while affirming the necessity of an alliance with other social groups, particularly factory workers. Thus, in Brittany during the 1972 milk strike, local union officials presented the price of milk as a wage for peasants. Elsewhere, militants rather stressed the regional dimension of their struggle, as with the Languedoc winegrowers or the Larzac peasants. Most of these struggles are forgotten now, and only Larzac, in which success was achieved, is still remembered in the collective memory.