Social movements, internationalism and the cold war: Perspectives on labour history

Kirkby, D; Scalmer, S

Social movements, internationalism and the cold war: Perspectives on labour history

Kirkby, D

Scalmer, S

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Citation:: Labour History, 2016, 2016 (111), pp. 1 - 9
Issue Date:: 2016-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Kirkby, D https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3288-4819	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Scalmer, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1697-5457	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Labour History, 2016, 2016 (111), pp. 1 - 9	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0023-6942	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/89770
dc.description.abstract	This article deals with European Nuclear Disarmament's (END) difficult positioning in the Cold War of the 1980s. Its vision was for a humanistic socialism from below that would be capable of breaking up the Cold War and unite a divided Europe that in turn could act as a possible "third way" between the liberal capitalism of the USA and the orthodox Communism of the Soviet Union. However, it proved difficult to build these alliances across the Cold War divide without talking, at the same time, to representatives of the "official" peace movements of the Communist states. END found itself between the Scylla of having no dialogue at all with Eastern Europe or the Charybdis of having a dialogue also with the Communist regimes which was seen sceptically by the dissidents. The article traces the difficulties of END of building humanistic socialist alliances for peace from below with special reference to END's Working Group on Germany.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Labour History	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.5263/labourhistory.111.0001	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History	en_US
dc.title	Social movements, internationalism and the cold war: Perspectives on labour history	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	111	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	2016	en_US
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utslib.for	2103 Historical Studies	en_US
utslib.for	2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
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pubs.issue	111	en_US
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pubs.volume	2016	en_US

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This article deals with European Nuclear Disarmament's (END) difficult positioning in the Cold War of the 1980s. Its vision was for a humanistic socialism from below that would be capable of breaking up the Cold War and unite a divided Europe that in turn could act as a possible "third way" between the liberal capitalism of the USA and the orthodox Communism of the Soviet Union. However, it proved difficult to build these alliances across the Cold War divide without talking, at the same time, to representatives of the "official" peace movements of the Communist states. END found itself between the Scylla of having no dialogue at all with Eastern Europe or the Charybdis of having a dialogue also with the Communist regimes which was seen sceptically by the dissidents. The article traces the difficulties of END of building humanistic socialist alliances for peace from below with special reference to END's Working Group on Germany.

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