The anti-Vietnam War Movement in Australia - with draft-resister Rowan Cahill

Chloe spoke with Rowan Cahill, radical historian and anti-war activist who refused to be drafted into the Vietnam war. They discuss the resistance to the draft in Australia, the forgotten working class resistance to the Vietnam war & its relevance for today’s fight against militarism & imperialism.

 

Links:

• Rowan’s Conscientious Objector statement
• Siege of Sydney University 1968 
• Blog post about Louis Christophedes
• Ken Mansell archives
• Timeline of the Australian anti-war movement
• A people’s history of the Vietnam War - Red Flag