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Vietnam War (1961 - 1975)

From
1961
To
1975

Resources

Application Forms

  • Commonwealth of Australia, National Service Act 1951-1964 - Registration Form, December 1964. Image PDF Details

Books

  • Levien, Harold, Vietnam: Myth and Reality, Harold Levien, Sydney, 1967. images PDF Details
  • Walker, Bertha, How to Defeat Concription: A Story of the 1916 and 1917 Campaigns in Victoria, Anti-Conscription Jubilee Committee, Melbourne, 1968. Image PDF Details

Conference Proceedings

  • Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Executive Meeting Minutes April 27, 1970, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Melbourne, April 1970. images PDF Details

Fliers

  • General meeting - Tuesday July 16, 1.15 pm, Anonymous, Melbourne, July 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act, Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act, June 25, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Youth Campaign Against Conscription Committee, Youth Campaign Against Conscription Committee (YCAC), Melbourne, 1966. Image PDF Details
  • Vietnam Study Group’, Vietnam Study Group, Melbourne, July 1966. Image PDF Details
  • To All Anti-war Demonstrators, Young Labor Association (YLA), Melbourne, 1966. images PDF Details
  • July 4 Independence Day Rally, Melbourne, 1967. images PDF Details
  • The Defence Force Protection Act (Commonwealth of Australia, 1967) and Documents Relating to Resistance to the Act, 1967. Image PDF Details
  • Day of Conscience on Conscription for Vietnam War, Monday, November 25, 1968, Victorian Branch of the Metal Trades Federation, Melbourne, November 1968. Image PDF Details
  • 1968 membership card of the Monash Anti-conscription Society, Monash Anti-conscription Society, Melbourne, 1968. images PDF Details
  • Organizations to contact concerning anti-war activity, information, or advice, Melbourne, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • World Protest: Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee Bulletin, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, October 1968. image PDF Details
  • We appeal for conscience on conscription – Release John Zarb, Melbourne, November 1968. Image PDF Details
  • In Memory of Ho Chi Minh, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, August 1969. images PDF Details
  • Conscription - Advice and Discussion, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Melbourne, circa 1969. images PDF Details

Journals

  • Analysis, vol. 1, no. 1, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, July 1968. Image PDF Details
  • International, vol. 2, no. 65, Australian Section of the Fourth International. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June July 1968. images PDF Details
  • Inscape, vol. 1, no. 1, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Melbourne, November/December 1968. images PDF Details
  • International, vol. 13, no. 76, Australian Section of the Fourth International. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1970. Image PDF Details
  • International, vol. 17, no. 80, Australian Section of the Fourth International. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1970. Image PDF Details
  • Australian Left Review, no. 47, July 1975. Image PDF Details
  • Australian Left Review, no. 46, March/April 1975. Image PDF Details
  • Australian Left Review, no. 74, May 1980. Image PDF Details

Letters

  • Letter to Ken Mansell (member of Monash Labor Club and the Young Socialist League) from Miss Dale Sutherland on behalf of Dr Jim Cairns. Image PDF Details
  • Letter from Sandra Zurbo of Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Melbourne, March 1970. Image PDF Details

Manifestos

  • Prahran Manifesto, Prahran Workers for a Democratic Society, Melbourne, 1968. images PDF Details

Newsletters

  • YCAC Newsletter, Youth Campaign Against Conscription Committee (YCAC), Melbourne. Image PDF Details
  • Vietnam Action Committee, Vietnam Action Committee, Sydney, December 1966. Image PDF Details
  • Who Owns the Peace Movement?, Melbourne, July 1967. Image PDF Details
  • Print, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, August 1968. images PDF Details
  • Print, vol. 1, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, July 1968. images PDF Details
  • Print, vol. 1, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, July 1968. images PDF Details
  • Print, vol. 1, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, July 1968. images PDF Details
  • Print, vol. 1, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, July 1968. images PDF Details
  • National Mobilisation: Mass Non-violent Sit-in at the Prime Minister’s Lodge, Canberra ACT, Draft Resistance Movement, May 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Statement on July 4, 1968 demonstration by Harry Van Moorst, Vice-President of Melbourne University Pacifist Society, Melbourne University Pacifist Society, Melbourne, July 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Viet Protest News, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, December 1968. images PDF Details
  • Draft Resistance Movement Newsletter, Draft Resistance Movement, Melbourne, October 21, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • ‘Denis O’Donnell conscientious objector now in military prison’., Melbourne University Labor Club, Melbourne, April 1968. Image PDF Details
  • D.R.M. News: Newsletter of the Draft Resistance Movement, Draft Resistance Movement, Melbourne, February 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Do you approve this?, Sydney, April 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Print, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, July 1969. images PDF Details
  • The Prahran Worker, vol. 2, Monash Labor Club, Melbourne, July 1969. images PDF Details
  • Tabloid Underground, vol. 2, Students in Dissent (SID), Melbourne, February 1969. images PDF Details
  • Viet Protest New, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, May 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Viet Protest News, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, December 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Uni High Underground, vol. 2, Students of University High School, Melbourne, April 1969. images PDF Details
  • Oppression in Society - Freedom Day: July 4, Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament (AICD), Sydney, June 1970. Image PDF Details
  • CICD Newsletter, Congress for International Co-opreation and Disarmament, Melbourne, April 1970. Image PDF Details
  • Resist, vol. 2, Draft Resistance Movement, Melbourne, August 1970. Image PDF Details
  • Vietnam Moratorum Campaign, n.d.. Image PDF Details

Newspapers

  • Which Way Treason?, Monash Labor Club Committee for Aid to the National Liberation Front, Melbourne, August 1967. Image PDF Details
  • The Old Mole: Special Supplement, no. 8, Haydn Thompson, Sydney, 8 March, 3 pp. images PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

  • 'We Oppose Overseas Conscription', The Australian, Youth Campaign Against Conscription Committee (YCAC), Sydney, 1965. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

  • Facts About the Anti-LBJ Demonstration, Monash University Students Representative Council, Melbourne, November 1966. Image PDF Details
  • The moral and political issues involved in Vietnam and conscription…, Australian Labor Party, Melbourne, 1966. images PDF Details
  • We Cannot Support a War against Children, Seamens Union of Australia, Sydney, April 1967. Image PDF Details
  • Why Register for National Service?/The Right to Dissent, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Sydney, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Moratorium Campaign: Wreck the Draft, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Melbourne, July 1970. Image PDF Details
  • Unions warn: danger of total war, Sydney, c1965. Image PDF Details
  • 3000 more Australians for Vietnam, Brisbane, n.d.. Image PDF Details
  • Better to fight them over there than here, Brisbane, n.d.. Image PDF Details
  • Dr. Cairns, J. F., Vietnam: Is It Truth We Want?, Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, Melbourne, August 1965. images PDF Details
  • Hill, E.F., Democracy for Whom?, [This scan courtesy of Mike Williss], Melbourne, 1969?, 6 pp. PDF Details
  • Holloway, E. J., The Australian Victory over Conscription in 1916-1917, Anti-Conscription Jubilee Committee, Melbourne, 1966. Image PDF Details
  • Melbourne Revolutionary Marxists, A Call for the Revolutionary Regroupment of the Australian Left, Transcript completed in 2017 of the original pamphlet which was published in 1975. The pdf file here is an archived copy downloaded from Robert Dorning's personal website on 6 July 2017., Melbourne, 1975. Also available at http://www.softdawn.net/Archive/MRM/thecall.html. PDF Details
  • Norden, Eric, American Atrocities in Vietnam, Vietnam Action Committee, Sydney, 1966. images PDF Details

Petitions

  • Two Years Gaol: The Price of Conscience, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Melbourne, October 1968. Image PDF Details

Photographs

  • Zarb Hero (The Unjust Treatment of two Anti-Conscription Demonstrators), 1968-1969. Image PDF Details

Posters

  • Conscription and Vietnam: a public discussion with Ray Taylor, Jim Cairns, Glen Tomasetti and Ian Turner, May 1966. Image PDF Details
  • The Socialist Imperative: A May Day Manifesto, Revolutionary Socialists, Melbourne, March 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Don’t be a machine - Refuse to Register, 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Fuck the Draft, 1969. Image PDF Details
  • End Vietnam War: Get the boys home now! Support Moratorium May 8-9-10, Amalgamated Engineering Union, Melbourne, April 1970. Image PDF Details

Reviews

  • Mansell, Ken, 'A Critical Review', Review of Michael Hyde, All Along the Watchtower: Memoir of a Sixties Revolutionary, The Vulgar Press, Melbourne, 2010. pp. 274. $32.95 paper., 2011, p. 20. PDF Details

Statements

  • Canberra Citizen's statement of War in Indo-China, 1954. Image pdf Details
  • Time to Rethink on Vietnam, Communist Party of Australia, Melbourne, February 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Public Statement by Karl Armstrong, November 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Notes on John Francis Zarb: Prepared by Gordon Bryant, Federal member for Wills, November 1, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Some Results and Tasks of the Vietnam Moratorium, 1970. images PDF Details