ABSTRACT
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. 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. Authenticity was also to be gained by making life in the alternative, a movement life-style, permanent rather than temporary. In many ways the central components of the community organizing movement are, by 1965, those of the new left (NL) itself. The immense influence of Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee and the southern movement on Students for a Democratic Society, the Free Speech Movement and the community projects, thus establishing the character of the white American NL, has been noted already.
