Martin Levy

Ban the Bomb!

Michael Randle and Direct Action against Nuclear War

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During the 1950s, Michael Randle helped pioneer a new form of direct action against nuclear war, based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. At the forefront of the British campaign, he worked closely with Peace News editor Hugh Brock (1914-1985) and other distinguished 'anti-nuclear pacifists' such as Pat Arrowsmith, April Carter, and Ian Dixon, serving as chairman of the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War (1958-1961) and secretary of the Committee of 100 (1960-1961).In 1966, he helped 'spring' the Russian spy George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Thereafter, he campaigned vigorously on behalf of the Greek democratic opposition, c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-8382-1489-4
EAN: 9783838214894
Produktnummer: 35178539
Verlag: Ibidem-Verlag
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 294 S.
Auflage: Auflage
Abbildungen: Taschenbuch

Über den Autor

Martin Levy is a librarian at the University of Bradford. He has published books and articles on a variety of subjects including anti-psychiatry, the free universities movement of the 1960s, and 18th-century social history. This is his first book of interviews.