SOCIAL DEFENCE: ARGUMENTS AND ACTIONS

Published in Shelley Anderson and Janet Larmore (eds.), Nonviolent Struggle and Social Defence (London: War Resisters' International and the Myrtle Solomon Memorial Fund Subcommittee, 1991), pp. 81-141, with minor subeditorial changes.

 

Brian Martin

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Contents

Introduction and acknowledgements

 

Arguments

The basics

Historical examples

Severe repression

Social offence: taking the struggle to the aggressor

Reservations (miscellaneous questions)

Organising society for social defence

The transition

General references

 

Actions

Social defence contacts


Brian Martin has been involved in the radical science, environment and peace movements since the 1970s and has written widely in these areas. He works in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia.


email: bmartin@uow.edu.au

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