- Title
- 1968 : Victorian anti-war movement gets an injection
- Creator
- Butler, Nicholas
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/173265
- Identifier
- vital:14628
- Identifier
- ISSN:2652-046X
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.35843/beforenow.173265
- Abstract
- When the 'baby-boomers' had reached university age, their understandings, habits and behaviours often collided with the political discourse of their parents' generation. By 1968, the Monash University Labor Club, fresh from its campaign to raise money for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF), had discarded the mantle of Labor reformism and set itself on a path of a radical communist activism that scorned the efforts of the Communist Party (CPA) to contain its enthusiasm. In concert with similarly leaning student clubs at the other two Victorian universities it turned its attention to the protest movement outside the university, against conscription and the Vietnam Wm: That brought the inevitable clash with the older established anti war movement led by a loose blend of ALP, CPA, church groups and unions. This process led, in Scalmer's classification of protest actions, to the mode of political demonstrations leaping radically from 'staging' to 'disruption.'
- Publisher
- Collaborative Research Centre in Australian History (CRCAH) / Federation UniversityAustralia
- Relation
- Before/Now : Journal of the collaborative Research Centre in Australian History (CRCAH) Vol. 1, no. 1 (2019), p. 11-26
- Rights
- © The Author{s) [2019]. Published by the Collaborative Research Centre in Australian History, Federation University Australia. All rights reserved.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Vietnam War; Demonstrations; Arrests; Radicals; Monash University Labor Club; Australian History; Anti-war movement - Victoria; 2102 Curatorial and Related Studies; 2103 Historical Studies
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