What were the 70s like politically? | Sheila Rowbotham & Gary Younge

The 70s is often described as a "lost decade", but who were the people trying to fight for a better society? Sheila Rowbotham talks to Gary Younge about her new book, Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s, out now: bit.ly/3kXTla6
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[@colibri1]

This is such an interesting topic. What Younge says about the public perception of the seventies is true in the US, too, where it is common to refer to the seventies as an era of "malaise," a testament to how thoroughly right-wing US society now is, but, as Rowbotham says here and as historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in her memoirs "Blood on the Border" and "Outlaw Woman" says as well, it was really an era of hope, when the progressive victories of the 1960s were really felt across society and accepted as normal with very little backlash or opposition, at least in mainstream society. The far right was still very marginal (except in the US-driven neo-Nazi torture-dictatorships of Latin America), although the right was organizing in small groups to impose massive changes that would start to be seen some at the end of the seventies and on a large scale with the election of Reagan and afterward.

[@rachelblack314]

'Womb carriers'? Stop erasing women!