ABSTRACT
The identity was a direct expression of a collective sense of fellowship on marches and demonstrations as well as in the ghettoes and rural communities in which radical projects emerged. Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee’s (SNCC) revolutionary spirit took it, beyond civil rights to make a series of connections between race, war, poverty, capitalism and personal identity: by creating its cooperative self-help community projects in the southern rural areas, it raised the issue of 'capitalism'. The Committee was to the British nuclear disarmament movement what SNCC was to the civil rights movement. It represented an upsurge of youthful militancy against tried reformist methods and an established middle-class leadership. The one movement to clearly spread across national boundaries was the nuclear disarmament movement. During the 1960s its symbol became the property of an international movement, and the spread of nuclear weapons was, together with the transformation of world communications, probably the greatest single factor in generating a more transnational consciousness.
