Michael Hyde interviewed for the documentary "Hell No We Won't Go"

Mike Hyde (DOB 1945) who grew up in a religious household (his father was a Methodist pastor), and attended Monash University where he joined the Labor Club which, under the influence of fellow student Albert Langer, became increasingly radical, in line with the writings of China’s Chairman Mao. Hyde joined the leadership of the Labor Club and in time also became a secret member of the pro-China Communist Party Marxist-Leninist. During the anti-war movement he and his comrades promoted revolutionary change in Australia through radical direct action, often confrontational. Hyde was involved in collecting money at Monash University for the National Liberation Front of Vietnam and argued for support for the NLF as a slogan for the broader anti-war movement. At least a couple of the members of the Labor Club volunteered for the Army, seen by the Labor Club as training for potential armed revolution and a preferred option to draft resistance. Dismissed from the University, Hyde was later reinstated and qualified as a teacher. After 25 years of secondary teaching in low socio-economic areas, he gained a doctorate and published his thesis as a biographical account of the sixties, entitled All Along the Watchtower. Hyde is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Young Adult novels. (Description provided by interviewer).