Australian Left Review
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Discussion: 1. Student Activism 2. Why Czechoslovakia? 3. Manufactured Menace 4. Metal Trade Unions 5. For Amalgamation 6. Education in New Guinea 7. The Liberty to Control 8. Unlucky Australians
Abstract
Commenting on the questions asked of student leaders (Student Activism ALR No. 4, 1968) I claim that the main causes are generally, the failure of modern industrial, bureaucratically organised societies to meet the individual human needs; particularly, for Australia, (1) the Vietnam horror; (2) desire of individuals and minority groups to pa rticipate meaningfully in government process, and feelings of frustration resulting from the capitalist establishment’s denial of their rights; (3) increasing evidence of the capitalist power elite's suppression of humanistic values.