You can’t reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks. – Angry Brigade, communique. Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a popular and successful series of 25 symbolic attacks against property, without killing anyone.
Attached file anarchy-uk-angry-brigade.pdf (8.37 MB)
A series of communiques accompanied the actions, explaining the choice of targets and the Angry Brigade philosophy: autonomous organisation and attacks on property alongside other forms of militant working class action.
Here you can watch two documentaries on anarchist activism (and trials) in the seventies and eighties. Both were made by Gordon Carr, the first was the basis of his book on the Angry Brigade.
Contains archive footage of events varying from Miguel Garcia to snippets of a Crass gig in 1980. With introductions by Stuart Christie. The Angry Brigade (1974 – Gordon Carr)
Targets included the embassies of repressive regimes, police stations and army barracks, support attacks for Workers Strikes, the Miss World Contest, a high fashion boutique, factories, government departments and the homes of Cabinet ministers, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
These attacks on the homes of senior political figures increased the pressure for results and brought an avalanche of police raids. From the start the police were faced with the difficulty of getting to grips with a section of society they found totally alien.
And were they facing an organisation — or an idea? Gordon Carr’s film explores covers the roots of the Angry Brigade in the revolutionary ferment of the 1960’s and the anarchist First of May Group, and follows their campaign and the police investigation to its culmination in the ‘Stoke Newington 8’ conspiracy trial at the Old Bailey — the longest criminal trial in British legal history.
It remains the essential study of Britain’s first urban guerrilla group. Persons Unknown (1980 – Gordon Carr) Documentary by Gordon Carr on the so-called ‘Persons Unknown’ case in December 1979 in which members of the Anarchist Black Cross were tried at the Old Bailey on a charge of ‘conspiring with persons unknown, at places unknown to cause explosions’.
A concise look at the ‘Persons Unknown’ trial. A fascinating snapshot of history in the making, The Persons Unknown pieces together an intricate web of radicals at a thriller’s pace.
Carr crisply relates the correspondences of a Black Cross secretary and imprisoned Irish republican and reaches all the way back to the Paris Commune to discuss the secretive, internationalist elements of radical leftist politics.
Where mainstream media tends to become hysterical where anarchism is concerned, The Persons Unknown remains keenly factual throughout. Among those featured in the film are Stuart Christie, publisher of the “Black Flag” newsletter and former would-be Generalisimo Francisco Franco assassin, and the anarcho-punk group Crass. … via Michael Baxter 3.79K subscribers
Targets included the embassies of repressive regimes, police stations and army barracks, boutiques and factories, government departments and the homes of Cabinet ministers, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
These attacks on the homes of senior political figures increased the pressure for results and brought an avalanche of police raids. From the start the police were faced with the difficulty of getting to grips with a section of society they found totally alien. And were they facing an organisation — or an idea?
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This documentary aired on 7 December, 1972 and looks at the anarchists who’d carried out a bombing campaign between 1970 and 1972.
An episode of World In Action from 1972 which reports on the Angry Brigade movement, including an interview with Anna Mendelssohn on the day she was sentenced to 10 years in jail for her involvement in a bombing plot. Originally broadcast on Thursday 7th December 1972. ….futureisgosub 5.44K subscribers
Attached file anarchy-uk-angry-brigade.pdf (8.37 MB)
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