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SUMMARY:Red Guard versus Old Guard? The influence of the Young Liberal move
 ment on the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 1970s ? a witness seminar
DESCRIPTION:In the 1960s and early 1970s the press coined the phrase the &q
 uot\;Red Guard&quot\; to describe the radical politics of the youth wing o
 f the Liberal Party. At the 1966 Party Conference in Brighton\, the Red Gu
 ard sponsored an anti-NATO resolution. Over the next decade the YLs were a
 ctive on a number of foreign policy areas. They were at the forefront of t
 he opposition to apartheid and the Vietnam war and took a leading role in 
 the Stop the Seventy Tour of South African cricket and rugby teams. The pa
 rty leadership were disturbed by the activities of the youth wing\, and Je
 remy Thorpe set up a three-man commission which produced the Terrell Repor
 t. The report accused some of the Young Liberals of being communists.   Ch
 air &ndash\; (Lord) Tony GreavesSpeaker &ndash\; Dr Matt Cole\, Lecturer a
 t the London School of Economics for the Hansard Society and author of Ric
 hard Wainwright\, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business\
 , shortly to be published by Manchester University PressWitnesses who have
  agreed to attend are Gordon Lishman\, William Wallace\, Terry Lacey\, Mic
 hael Steed and George Kiloh\, and we welcome other testimony from audience
  members.
LOCATION:Birmingham ICC Conference Room 7b\, B1 2EA
URL:https://www.flocktogether.org.uk/event/6152
CATEGORIES:MEETING,CONFERENCE FRINGE MEETING
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