ABSTRACT
The new radicalism that crystallized was 'pluralistic, amorphous and multi-layered'. The movements of youth, peace and civil rights had certainly had no clear centre, and no 'stable message'. As typical of the anti-war movement in America and Britain as the big national demonstrations and teach-ins and rallies, were local groups and committees, community-based protests and projects, often growing spontaneously, using innovative methods, sometimes civil disobedience. As a response to a highly stable, centralized and homogeneous garrison-State, and to corporate organization, the radical movements for communal autonomy, black power, alternatives and communities, testify to the strength of the revolt against authoritarianism and homogeneity. The counter-community thus represented to many within the movement a scenario, and, to those outside it, a spectacle, or an alternative. From 1965 Berkeley became a major focus of the American anti-war movement with the marches, teach-ins and troop-train stopping of the Vietnam Day Committee.
