RIS ID
8468
Abstract
For some years now, the 1960s have been contested terrain. Many commentators have rushed to specious judgements about the radical politics of the era, while others have struggled valiantly to keep memories alive. Much of the politics of the contemporary epoch is being played out through the lens of the Sixties. This seems like a grand and foolish claim but it needs to be understood that the so-called neo-liberal and/or neoconservative agenda (and I will include hawkish foreign policy in this) is substantially directed at burying the Sixties. The gains of the various social movements, in particular the anti-war and civil rights movements, have been under attack since the mid 1970s.
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Publication Details
Ashbolt, A, Remembrance of Things That Last, The Hummer: Publication of the Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 3(7), 2002, 4-8.