[lbo-talk] "Doing History Backward" (Partial Draft)

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at aapt.net.au
Thu Apr 9 05:10:38 PDT 2009


At 9:39 PM -0400 8/4/09, Marv Gandall wrote:


>It marched against the Vietnam war and in favour of liberation struggles in
>Africa and Latin America, the US civil rights movement, equal rights for
>women and gays, the mass uprisings against bureaucracy in Czechoslovakia and
>Gaullism in France, the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation,the
>Northern Irish resistance to the British occupation, the ANC and the
>movement to free Mandela in South Africa, restrictions on artistic
>expression, free speech, and political rights, nuclear disarmament, trade
>union rights, protection of the environment, penal reform, etc.
>
>I would describe it as "progressive".

Yeah, but what have the 60's generation done for us *lately*?

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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