This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the relationship between protest focused on the war and other emancipatory and revolutionary struggles, moving beyond existing scholarship to examine the myriad interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe during the Indochina Wars. Bringing together scholars working from a range of geographical, historiographical and methodological perspectives, the volume offers a new framework for understanding the history of wartime protest. The chapters are organised around the social movements from the three main geopolitical regions of the world during the 1960s and early 1970s: the core capitalist countries of the so-called first world, the socialist bloc and the Global South. The final section of the book then focuses on international organisations that explicitly sought to bridge and unite solidarity and protest around the world. In an era of persistent military conflict, the book provides timely contributions to the question of what war does to protest movements and what protest movements do to war.

Explores the dynamic emergence and transformation of protest movements around the world during the Vietnam War period Explores protest movements in the core capitalist countries, the socialist bloc and the Global South Analyses the relationships between the numerous interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe

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Alexander Sedlmaier is Reader in Modern History at Bangor University, UK, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He works on contemporary German, European and North American history and is author of Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany (2014).

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Chapter 1: Protest in the Era of the Indochina Wars: Upending Centre and Periphery By Alexander Sedlmaier.- Part 1: Bridging the Worlds: International Organisations.- Chapter 2: To go further than words alone: The World Peace Council and the Global Orchestration of Vietnam War Campaigns During the 1960s By Kim Christiaens.- Chapter 3: The Vietnam Activities of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) By Francisca de Haan.- Part 2: State Socialism: Second-World solidarity, Propaganda, and Humanitarianism from Above and from Below.- Chapter 4: The Soviet Public and the Vietnam War: Political Mobilization, Public Organizations, and Activism, 19651973 By Julie Hessler.- Chapter 5: Between Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Communism: Poland and International Solidarity with Vietnam By Idesbald Goddeeris.- Chapter 6: The Engineering of Political Equidistance and Its Consequences: The Vietnam War and Popular Protest in Yugoslavia By Sabine Rutar & Radina Vueti.- Part 3: The Capitalist Core: First World Activists Reach Out to Emancipatory and Revolutionary Movements Across the Globe.- Chapter 7: Vietnam War Protest and Solidarity in West Germany By Freia Anders & Alexander Sedlmaier.- Chapter 8: France's Two Vietnams: Intellectual Protest Politics in Perspective By Silja Behre.- Chapter 9: The Japanese New Left, the Vietnam War, and Anti-Imperial Protest By Alex Finn Macartney.- Part 4: The Global South: Emancipation, anti-colonialism, Third Worldism.- Chapter 10: The Vietnam War, Maoism, and the Cultural Revolution: Propaganda and Mobilization in the People's Republic of China By Kazushi Minami.- Chapter 11: The Vietnam War, Protest, and Democratization in South Korea By Tae Yang Kwak.- Chapter 12: The Vietnam War in Africa By Dan Hodgkinson & Luke Melchiorre.- Chapter 13: Revolutionary Soulmates? Cuba's Slow Discovery of Vietnam By Antoni Kapcia.- Chapter 14: Singing in Solidarity: The Latin American Protest-Song Movement and the Vietnam War By MatíasHermosilla.