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This book was first published in leaflet form as part of
Christ-The Album.
It contains three separate essays all of which deal with the individual
and their basic right to freedom and peace. This book, written by three members
of CRASS, gives an insight into much of the thinking of the "punk generation"
which, contrary to the media portrayal of punk as mindless and violent,
is both caring and articulate.
Released in 1982
Christ-The Album in 1982, in book form in '82 and
re-printed in 1983.
The first essay is a pocket
history of the peace movement from its roots in the "beat culture" of the
late '50s to the "punk explosion" of '77. Woven into this history is the story
of Wally Hope, a visionary anarcho-mystic whose untimely death as a result of
brutal treatment in a psychiatry hospital becomes symbolic of the death of
hippy "love and peace" and the birth of punk's raw anger.
The second shorter essay is more of a manual on how, if not to succeed, the
victims of oppressive institutions can not only get by, but subvert and use
to their own ends the tools of that oppression.
The third essay is a well documented twentieth century history of pacifism
versus war. It not only creates a perspective of war against which the
urgency of pacifist answers become obvious and necessary, it also offers
practical and workable approaches by which this could be possible.
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