Against the Bomb The British Peace Movement 1958-1965

Name: Against the Bomb The British Peace Movement 1958-1965
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ISBN: 9780198275374

ISBN-10: 0198275374

ISBN-13: 9780198275374

Edition: 1988

Authors: Richard Taylor

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The nuclear disarmament movement of the late '50s and early '60s was one of the largest and arguably one of the most significant, extra-parliamentary movements ever seen in modern Britain. A whole new style and conception of politics was born through this first anti-nuclear movement, and the subsequent radicalism of the '60s and '70s has its roots here. The movement was extraordinarily diverse and rich in its constituencies of support and complex in its ideological make-up. Thus anarchists, communists, and Trotskyists rubbed shoulders with Christians, liberals, members of the Labour party, and 'ordinary apolitical people', most of whom found in the movement a means by which they could…

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List price: $250.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/18/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Mainstream



Cnd in Embryo the National Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests



Formation and Advance the Early Years of Cnd, 1958--1960



Problems and Decline Cnd 1961-1965



The Radicals



The Direct Action Committee



The Committee of 100



The Socialist Dimension



The Labour Movement and the Peace Issue 1957-1964



Marxists and Nuclear Disarmament


Postscript Nuclear Protest and Radical Change


Bibliography


Index