“You can’t reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks.\u201d
\n\u2014 Angry Brigade, communiqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against property. A series of communiqu\u00e9s accompanied the actions, explaining the choice of targets and the Angry Brigade philosophy: autonomous organization and attacks on property alongside other forms of militant working class action. 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 organization\u2014or an idea?<\/p>\n
This documentary, produced by Gordon Carr for the BBC (and first shown in January 1973, shortly after the trial), covers the roots of the Angry Brigade in the revolutionary ferment of the 1960s, and follows their campaign and the police investigation to its culmination in the \u201cStoke Newington 8\u201d conspiracy trial at the Old Bailey\u2014the longest criminal trial in British legal history. Produced after extensive research\u2014among both the libertarian opposition and the police\u2014it remains the essential study of Britain’s first urban guerilla group.<\/p>\n
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\nThe so-called \u201cPersons Unknown\u201d case in which members of the Anarchist Black Cross were tried (and later acquitted) at the Old Bailey on charges of \u201cconspiring with persons unknown, at places unknown, to cause explosions and to overthrow society.\u201d Featuring interviews and footage of Stuart Christie, Nicholas Walter, Crass and many other UK anarchist activists and propagandists of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"