"But today, as people around the world face the contraction of the public sector, the demonstrations of that time seem oddly prophetic, a first salvo of protest against the age of austerity we still live in today. Then as now, people protested the power of a small economic elite to decide the fate of cities and even nations. Then as now, the damage done by cutbacks falls most heavily on those who do not have the vast wealth needed to retreat into a private sphere."
Kim Phillips-Fein in The New York Times compares New York in the mid-1970s to today's protests.
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