Australian Left Review
Article Title
Student Action — Out of Nihilism
Abstract
RECENTLY there has been a spate of press predictions that 1970 will witness something of a retreat on the university front, a decline in student militancy and a return to a more moderate and restrained style of protest and action. It would be easy to dismiss these forecasts as wishful thinking were it not for the fact that the modes of student radical action in 1969 have produced an unmistakable reaction in some universities and a reappraisal by some student leaders of the tactics that characterised last year’s confrontations.
This paper has been withdrawn.