Propaganda Activities of the Youth Movement in Great Britain in 1960s–1970s
Abstract
The article studies the ways the 1960s–1970s youth movement of Great Britain used to propagandize their ideas. The article analyzes the written sources of information, such as newspapers, leaflets, brochures, manifestos and the literature popular among youth protest supporters. It is clarified that the 1960s–1970s youth movement was not homogeneous. Conditionally, we can divide it into political and apolitical trends. Within these trends not all groups of youth movement, such as subcultures, student unions and youth wings of political parties, propagandized their ideas. Left-wing and rightwing youth organizations and unions can be included into the number of those who conducted propaganda. The main forms of propaganda they used were: publishing activity, agitation marches, rallies and demonstrations. Despite the fact that the left movement was more popular than the right movement, it could not destabilize the situation with propaganda methods due to the disunity of leftwing movement, such as Maoism, Trotskyism and “New Left” etc. Another reason was the existence of the Labour Party which collected most of the protest votes among the British youth.
DOI 10.14258/izvasu(2017)5-28
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