In the summer of 1981, the young Chris Savory left his place studying economics at Oxford University to join the peace movement and the UK’s counterculture. His recently-published memoir of this time, Confessions of a Non-Violent Revolutionary, is by turns moving and humorous. This extract takes up the story in 1982:
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, most disarmament-related civil disobedience was in the form of sit-down protests in central London.
The focus had now…