Our Generation Against Nuclear War
Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Black Rose Books, 1983. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Trade paperback. [10], 478 pages. Footnotes. Typed text in margins. Sticker residue on back cover. Dimitrios Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a prominent Canadian political activist, ecologist, publisher, and author. For over six decades, he has been a central figure in North America's New Left, peace, and anarchist movements.Contains two scarce Chomsky essays. Among the contributors are Seymour Melman, Michael Klare, Noam Chomsky, Farley Mowat, Theodore Olson, Robert Jungk, Bertrand Russell, Jawaharlal Nehru. Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher. Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher. Roussopoulos studied philosophy, politics, and economics at several Montreal and London universities, including McGill University and the London School of Economics. He chose to pursue his political activism. He has remained institutionally independent apart from teaching two years in the late 1960s at a progressive college. Roussopoulos’s political and peace activism began in London, England. He founded in 1959 the Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and organized the first post-war student demonstration in Ottawa. He founded and edited Canada's first quarterly peace research journal, Our Generation, in 1961. Its first issue gained a circulation of three thousand and carried a preface by Bertrand Russell. In 1969, Roussopoulos founded Black Rose Books, an international publishing house known for publishing works of left-wing politics by Noam Chomsky and Murray Bookchin, among others. When the first massive disarmament movement emerged, a journal bearing the title of this book was founded in 1961 to critically examine the issue of war and peace with all its implications. The book functions as a historical retrospective of the Our Generation journal (originally named Our Generation Against Nuclear War), which was established alongside the Student Union for Peace Action and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Over its decades of active publication, the journal featured notable contributions and commentary from prominent figures like Bertrand Russell and Jawaharlal Nehru. The text is frequently used in political science and historical research to examine the strategy, theory, and execution of mid-20th-century peace activism. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Seymour Melman, Michael Klare, Noam Chomsky, Farley Mowat, Theodore Olson, Robert Jungk, Bertrand Russell, Jawaharlal Nehru
ISBN: 0920057047
[Book #91631]
Price: $75.00