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Dear friends and comrades,
I want to strongly recommend Ernie Tate’s 2-volume memoir, Revolutionary
Activism in the 1950s and '60s.
I just posted a review of Volume 2 on Amazon. Here it is:
A KEY PARTICIPANT’S ACCOUNT OF THE 1960s YOUTH RADICALIZATION IN BRITAIN
I previously reviewed Volume 1 of this set and also gave it 5 stars, but
there are important differences between the two volumes. I found much of
personal interest in Vol. 1 but I recognize that readers who don't share
Ernest Tate's political-activist background might not value it as
highly. Vol. 2, however, should be of great interest to a much broader
readership because it provides an insider's view of an extremely
important historical event—namely, the creation of the powerful
anti-Vietnam-War movement in Great Britain during the 1960's and early
70's. An essential contribution to that movement was made by the
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and the International War Crimes
Tribunal that it gave birth to. Tate and his comrade-in-arms Jess
MacKenzie were closely involved with all of these developments, and his
narrative account of their battles and eventual triumphs is fascinating.
And underlying all of his "mass work" was Tate's central role in
bringing a British section of the Fourth International into being. What
he has to say about his dealings with key figures in the antiwar, labor,
and socialist movements such as Bertrand Russell, Ralph Shoenman, David
Horowitz, Isaac and Tamara Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, Vladimir Dedijer,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Laurent Schwartz, Tariq Ali, Ken
Coates, Pat Jordan, Tony Cliff, Gerry Healy and many more will be of
immense value to historians trying to understand the great youth
radicalization as it played out in Britain during those turbulent years.
If I have not already dropped enough interesting names, I will add that
the book has photos of mass antiwar demonstrations with such notables as
Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Branson [!] front and center.
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