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The Gloves Come Off – The 1970 Moratorium and the Limits of Tolerance

jkimber 21 September 202028 September 2020

On 18 September Moratorium marchers encountered a determined effort by the police to reassert their ‘dictatorship of the streets’. This might have been expected to occur most virulently in Brisbane and Melbourne but it was in Sydney and Adelaide that the police were most vicious, attacking demonstrators with pre-planned clockwork precision. … Continue readingThe Gloves Come Off – The 1970 Moratorium and the Limits of Tolerance

Activism, Anti-conscription, Anti-war, Conscription, Ken Mansell, moratorium, Radical History, Vietnam War, Youth Radicalism

‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972

jkimber 7 May 20207 May 2020

On this, the 50th anniversary of the 8 May 1970 Moratorium, we publish Ken Mansell’s “‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972”, which takes you through the myriad protests and events that led to the largest demonstrations Australia had ever seen. … Continue reading‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972

The Marxism and Strategic Concepts of the Communist Party of Australia 1963-1972

Ken Mansell’s honours thesis ‘The Marxism and Strategic Concepts of the Communist Party of Australia 1963-1972’ provides ‘a Marxist critique of Australian Communism’. As Ken’s noted in his abstract, the thesis

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‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1972

1972 January 2 – Anti-war activists in Melbourne meet at Shrine and proceed to U.S Consulate for rally against renewed U.S bombing of North Vietnam January 7 – Further demonstration

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‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1971

1971 January – Commonwealth police interrogate signatories to Christmas anti-conscription advertisement in The Australian January 9-10 – National Moratorium Coordinating Committee meets in Melbourne to plan February 17-21 National Anti-War

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‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1966

1966 January – Robert Menzies resigns as Australian Prime Minister – Harold Holt takes the reins January 20 – Francis James (editor of The Anglican) returns home to Sydney after

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‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1965

1965 January – U.S extends the war to Laos and blasts trails used by North Vietnamese to pass supplies and cadres to NLF January – ‘National Service’ registration period begins

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‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1964

1964 March – CND march Dandenong to Melbourne against French nuclear tests April 5 – CICD launches national petition against French nuclear tests in Pacific and underground nuclear tests June

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‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1963

1963 January – External Affairs Minister Barwick announces further consignment of wire and ‘equipment’ for ‘strategic villages’ in South Vietnam March 8 – Jim Cairns denounces ‘military resistance to national-revolutionary

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‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1962

1962 March – CND in Melbourne campaigns against atmospheric testing by both superpowers April – ‘Aldermaston Solidarity March’ organised by ANZ Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) May –

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