It's the homemade quality of the Aldermaston and Greenham Common protests that is moving: those carefully drawn or sewn banners, some of which are included here.
Proper cold war terror started to take hold, and the first Greenham Common protests began the same year.
Thirty years ago this month marked a high-water mark of sorts for the Greenham Common protests.
The most common protests were against the Republican tax plan that was signed into law on Dec. 22.
Examples include nationalists and liberals in Russia united behind a common protest banner and Islamists, leftists, and youth movements in Egypt in the anti-Mubarak protests in 2011.
But, nonetheless, a few days later this photograph appeared on the front page of the Observer and the resulting publicity got the whole Greenham Common protest started.
It was decided instead to stage a more common protest activity, a "snake march," in which a line of people weave haphazardly along sidewalks and streets.
Nina Raine directs April de Angelis's latest, Jumpy, which harks back to the days of the Greenham Common protests and stars Tamsin Greig.
And Lucy Kirkwood's Bloody Wimmin argues that, even if the Greenham Common protests did not close American bases, they did politicise a generation of women.
Channel 4, the GLC women's committee, the Greenham Common protests, the rise in house prices, the renaissance of London's docklands: all these prefigured or contained within them important aspects of Britain in the next century.
