Decades later, a group of student activities is fast becoming a "sweet memory

Today, at a meeting to be considered a great success, even if the student activists managed to collect 500 of their classmates to compensate for the problem, saying: Supat Arsasri, secretary of the Student Federation of Thailand (SFT).
The most prominent body SFT Kingdom with 30 student organizations as members.
Supat, who is studying history at the University Ramkhamhaeng, said the Reform Movement in number and importance has declined, there are a number of factors.
He also said students now to reform rather than revolution in the 1970s, when socialist and communist ideologies dominated push.
Moreover, even SFT - which was formed in 1984 - finds himself straying Sometimes, he said, referring to the tacit support of the 2006 coup Federation as one of his biggest mistakes.
Supat said, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.
"Social media tools are readily available that can be used to wage war," he said, citing AUM NEKO, a sophomore student at Thammasat University's transgender, for example. Both on and off line - the regulations require students to wear uniforms NEKO AUM launched a campaign alone.
Um, which currently has more than 12,000 followers, explained that the quality of work has not changed, though the number of participants was reduced to four decades ago.
However, people still do not enjoy full freedom, he said, referring to the restrictions placed by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, as well as blocking websites critical or offensive to the monarchy. Aum said: "This is smarter government and students are discouraged from questioning the powers that be have become."
Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, 16, a young student, agrees. "The spirit is burning just right and the only difference is the method used in the [1970s] era, the print media, symposia and newsletters, but there is much more widespread communication technology today with numerous medium"


"Do not let [not] dreams of previous generations, we believe that this ideology is true or bullshit. Socialism and justice is still possible," he said.
The outside world, students like Jakkrit Witsuphalert - Sophomore at Thammasat University who studies International Relations - confirmed today that their students centered. "Ourselves and our families, we have to study more for us to score," he said.
He said that student activists marched down the streets paved by one of the streets have been replaced by virtual reality. He could be a nice place to watch a game of such great one anytime soon on October 14, 1973, was found to predict.
Last month, he started Ramkhamhaeng University students who were upset by the government's policy Rubber try to invite fellow students to join a rally. However, they were unsuccessful, only to find 25 people who would join them.
Many students want to share their opinions, but do not want to be seen publicly. This is one reason why Facebook has become a political tool to adjust many of the program, according to Jeerawut. Student activists attempted if the issues affect them directly, such as learning difficulties, or if friends are also joining the protests, or accumulation trust their leader.
This is the sixth in a series of articles commemorating the uprising of October Series ends today - 40 niversary day that students were standing against the dictator in 1973