From the Editors With this issue, we celebrate ten years of continuous publication of Groundswell / Nonviolence Today. We believe this event is worth observing because the magazine plays a small but significant role in the conscious practice of nonviolent action and the understanding of nonviolence as a political theory. For the first year of its existence, and following the first ever nonviolence gathering in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria in mid or late 1981 (does anyone remember exactly when?), Groundswell was published in Melbourne, with the first issue appearing in October, 1982. The plan was always to rotate "the newsletter" around the active groups to spread the load, so after five issues from Melbourne, it briefly visited northern New South Wales. Our friend in Uki found himself unable to manage it alone so he hastily brought it here to Brisbane. After several unsuccessful attempts to pass it on to another group, we stopped trying. It has remained here ever since, with a reasonably stable editorial collective growing enormously in production skills over the years. We changed the title of Groundswell to Nonviolence Today as a marketing strategy in March, 1988. We hoped to be more accessible and appealing if our title reflected our content. One of our disappointments has been our inability to increase circulation. Our earliest meaningful data is from May, 1988 when our circulation was 160 copies through 99 subscribers and distributors. After spending a substantial amount on advertising by July 1992 we had achieved 217 copies through 197 subscribers and distributors. At the same time, we have improved our national and international networking. Our early claims to international networking were mainly a few subscriptions from New Zealand. We now have 43 overseas subscriptions from 15 countries. Since July, 1990, the text of NvT has been available on the Pegasus / APC computer networks. Maybe we're destined to be a small but "prophetic" minority. With such a small circulation it's impossible to assess our impact, although we have participated in arguments, debates and discussions in unlikely venues (e.g. the Ipswich watch-house) sparked by articles published in Groundswell / NvT. We wish to thank past editors, helpers and our many contributors and subscribers. We particularly wish to thank and honour our longest term subscribers. Three cheers for every one of you: Black Rose Bookshop, Sydney NSW Paul Whyte, Sydney NSW Robert Meyer, Sydney NSW Jan De Voogd, Sydney NSW Gordon McAlister, Canberra ACT Brian Martin, Wollongong NSW Robert Burrowes, Melbourne VIC Fleur Finnie, Melbourne VIC Diana Pittock, Melbourne VIC Commonground Cooperative, Seymour VIC Keith Moodie, Brisbane QLD Trevor & Therese Jordan, Brisbane QLD Mark Taylor, Brisbane QLD Kevin Thomasson, Herberton QLD Jo Vallentine, Perth WA Francoise Matter & Hugh Paterson, Karratha WA Peter D. Jones, Hobart TAS Jack Lomax, Lachlan TAS Peace News, London ENGLAND Sarvodayya Friendship Centre, Bombay INDIA Gary Renwick, Nelson NEW ZEALAND As part of evaluation of the past and planning for the future, we asked our oldest Australian subscribers to write a few words about NvT and the nonviolence movement, past and future. The responses are published below. This issue consists almost entirely of items from past issues. Since we had roughly 500 articles to choose from, the selection is unbalanced, unrepresentative and idiosyncratic. It illustrates something of the variety in quality, issues, controversies and campaigns that has been published in Groundswell / NvT over the last ten years. We selected articles which were original rather than reprinted, Australian rather than overseas and good examples of analytical rather than descriptive articles. The only attempt we made at balance was for gender, because we regrettably receive fewer contributions from women than from men.