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SUMMARY:Red Guard versus Old Guard? The influence of the Young Liberal
  movement on the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 1970s – a witness se
 minar
DESCRIPTION:In the 1960s and early 1970s the press coined the phrase t
 he \"Red Guard\" to describe the radical politics of the youth wing of
  the Liberal Party. At the 1966 Party Conference in Brighton, the Red 
 Guard sponsored an anti-NATO resolution. Over the next decade the YLs 
 were active on a number of foreign policy areas. They were at the fore
 front of the opposition to apartheid and the Vietnam war and took a le
 ading role in the Stop the Seventy Tour of South African cricket and r
 ugby teams. The party leadership were disturbed by the activities of t
 he youth wing, and Jeremy Thorpe set up a three-man commission which p
 roduced the Terrell Report. The report accused some of the Young Liber
 als of being communists.\n\nChair – (Lord) Tony Greaves\n\nSpeaker â
 €“ Dr Matt Cole, Lecturer at the London School of Economics for the Ha
 nsard Society and author of Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liber
 al Democrats: Unfinished Business, shortly to be published by Manchest
 er University Press\n\nWitnesses who have agreed to attend are Gordon 
 Lishman, William Wallace, Terry Lacey, Michael Steed and George Kiloh,
  and we welcome other testimony from audience members.\n\nFor more inf
 ormation visit http://act.libdems.org.uk/events/red-guard-versus-old-g
 uard-the
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CATEGORIES:history, conference
LOCATION:Birmingham
WEBSITE:http://www.theicc.co.uk/
URL:http://www.theicc.co.uk/
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER:Liberal Democrat History Group
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ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Emmanuel
  Sheehan":http://act.libdems.org.uk/profile/EmmanuelSheehan
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Mark Pac
 k":http://act.libdems.org.uk/profile/MarkPack
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Iain Br
 odie Browne":http://act.libdems.org.uk/profile/IainBrodieBrowne
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Jon Whi
 tehouse":http://act.libdems.org.uk/profile/JonWhitehouse
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