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May '68 and After...a Geordie perspective
May 25, 2008 11:00 AM
Based upon his forthcoming autobiography ‘Coaldust and Stardust’, Dave Douglass presents an account of Tyneside’s contribution to and perspective on the events of May 1968 and the period following.
The presentation includes verbatim records of speeches and diaries. It will start with the rally in Newcastle Haymarket to prepare the region's intervention for the historic attack on the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, inspired by the heroic Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
It tells of ‘the bold aud Geordie Cong’ a sarcastic term given by the ‘old left’ to the regions young anarchists and revolutionary socialist milieu, which became a badge of identity.
The north region of the 60s and 70s housed a vibrant anarchist, working class, hippy, far left, sometimes armed and militant, proletarian, free-verse, happening, free love, folk singing, pot smoking, broon dog drinking, community. This presentation will attempt to reveal some of it.
