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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788217774)
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xThe launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND's rise, the activists involved, the tensions with the Committee of 100 around direct action, and the culture, radicalism and social groups that were mobilized to "ban the bomb".
The book discusses how a new movement in the 1980s, led by European Nuclear Disarmament and the Greenham women's peace camp, helped remove cruise missiles from Europe and end the Cold War. It examines how the campaign influenced - and was influenced by - antiwar movements from Vietnam to Iraq and Gaza, as well as the environmental and women's movements. As the nuclear threat returns in the 2020s, this study shows that the antinuclear movement's ideas and the non-violent direct action it pioneered still reverberate in the campaign against the UK's "nuclear deterrent" - and in protest movements from Stop the War to Extinction Rebellion.Author: Martin Shaw
ISBN-10: 1788217772
ISBN-13: 9781788217774
Publisher: Agenda Publishing
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2024
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
By Martin Shaw
xMartin Shaw is Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex. He was involved in the student and Vietnam War movements in the late 1960s and co-founded a local European Nuclear Disarmament (END) group in Hull and became a member of END's national committee. He was also chair of Humberside CND and took part in national CND affairs in the 1980s.
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