Withdraw all forces now Accession Number: ARTV03040

Description

An Australian Vietnam Moratorium Campaign poster. The poster is in blue and orange text only and features the Moratorium logo in orange in the lower left. The logo was featured on badges and posters and became a well-known symbol of anti-Vietnam protest. The poster calls for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Vietnam as part of the June 1971 Moratorium.

The Vietnam Moratorium Campaigns were a result of a conference held in Canberra in November 1969 to plan a series of protests based on the American Moratorium model. There were three Moratorium campaigns in Australia in 1970 and 1971. The Moratorium was the first truly mass movement of the protest against the Vietnam War. Until 1969 the protest had been uncoordinated in a national sense and rallies had been reasonably small in size, whereas the Moratorium mobilised the support of hundreds of thousands. It also succeeded in gaining more publicity in its first six months than had been achieved by the protest movement between 1965 and 1969. The aims of the first campaign were the immediate withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam and repeal of the National Service Act. The Moratorium stated that all actions taken by its members and supporters should be of a non-violent nature and this philosophy was extended throughout Australia through various state committees and others.

Details

Conflicts

• Vietnam, 1962-1975

Places

• New South Wales
• Vietnam

Tags

• Protest movements
• Political activists