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Radicals: Remembering the Sixties is a kaleidoscopic look at a formative decade
Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley show us that we must learn about the past in order to change the world today.
From the very first page of
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties which situates readers in an atmospheric description of the Black Lives Matter protest held at Town Hall in June last year Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley underpin their kaleidoscopic vision of the Sixties with a continual awareness of how the struggles of the past are both connected to, and vastly different from, the present.
The book immerses readers in the radical political and counter-cultural spirit of the Sixties, pulling together Meredith and Nadia’s own stories with interviews of 18 figures, each with their own chapter, many of whom encountered radical ideas at the University of Sydney and its surroundings. While the stories have common anchor-points notably, opposition to Australia’s military involvemen