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Michael Randle was born in 1933 in Worcester Park, Surrey, and spent the war years living with relatives in Ireland. He registered as a conscientious objector to military service in 1951 and was given two years alternative service on the land. He became involved in Operation Gandhi (later re-named the Non Violent Resistance Group) in early 1952 and has been active in the peace and nuclear disarmament movements ever since.

Michael was a member of the Aldermaston March Committee which organised the first Aldermaston March against British nuclear weapons at Easter 1958; chairman of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, 1958-1961; secretary of the Committee of 100, 1960-1961; and a council and executive member of War Resisters’ International, 1960-1987. In 1959-1960, he spent a year in Ghana, participating in the Sahara protest team against French atomic bomb tests and helping to organise a pan-African conference in Accra. In 1962 he was sentenced, along with five other members of the Committee of 100, to 18 months’ imprisonment for his part in organising non violent direct action at a USAAF base at Wethersfield in Essex; it was while he was serving that sentence that his first son, Sean, was born. In October 1967 he was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for participating in an occupation of the Greek Embassy in London following the military coup in April that year.

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