Description
The Sixties – an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white film footage – marked a turning point for change. Radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was opposition to the Vietnam War, this anger quickly escalated to include Aboriginal Land Rights, Women’s Liberation, Gay Liberation, Apartheid, Student Power and ‘workers’ control’.
In Radicals some of the people doing the changing – including David Marr, Margret RoadKnight, Gary Foley, Jozefa Sobski and Geoffrey Robertson – reflect on how the decade changed them and Australian society forever.
Publisher – NewSouth Books
To read a review of Radicals by Barry York click here (published in Melbourne Labour History Society’s newsletter ‘Recorder’ (July 2021, No 301))
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” –– Angela Davis. See https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2020/10/12/laver-the-knight-of-the-cart-2/#comment-814810