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  The Angry Brigade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Angry Brigade were a group of anarchist terrorists responsible for a long string of bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972.
The actions of the Brigade came to an end in one of the longest political trials of English history (May 30 1972 - December 6).
The actions of the Brigade were documented by a series of cryptic communiques, which began thus:
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/t/th/the_angry_brigade.html   (75 words)

  
 The Angry Brigade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Anyway, the Angry Brigade were a loose group of anarchists in the early-1970s who planted a few bombs (including, absurdly enough, one in Biba), failed to build any significant levels of support amongst the British working class, and were consequently crushed as soon as the State turned its attention to them.
Having achieved nothing at all, the Angry Brigade soon found that their entire contribution to the fight against international capital was eclipsed by the arrival on the British mainland of Irish terrorism.
And that was serious stuff: where the Angry Brigade had exploded over a hundred bombs without killing anyone at all, the IRA took the more direct option of putting a bomb in a Birmingham pub on a Saturday night and murdering lots and lots of people.
www.trashfiction.co.uk /angry_brigade.html   (625 words)

  
 The Angry Brigade - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Angry Brigade were a group of British anarchist terrorists responsible for a long string of bomb attacks around Britain between 1970 and 1972.
Angry Brigade, 1967 to 1984: Documents and Chronology
The Angry Brigade: The cause and the case
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /the_angry_brigade.htm   (195 words)

  
 The Observer | Food monthly | Look back in anger
The Angry Brigade was no joke for Creek, the youngest of the defendants, who like Anna Mendleson and her partner John Barker, came from a solidly middle-class background.
Speaking now about the Angry Brigade bombing campaign, she says it was a distraction from the main political thrust of the movement.
The Trotskyist groups of the period always viewed the Angry Brigade with suspicion and the hostility among veterans is as strong as ever.
observer.guardian.co.uk /life/story/0,6903,643923,00.html   (4115 words)

  
 The Angry Brigade
The Angry Brigade were a group of terrorists responsible for a long string of bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972.
The actions of the Brigade were documented by a series of cryptic communiques.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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ANGRY BRIGADE CHRONOLOGY 1969 February 3 Unexploded dynamite charges discovered on the premises of the Bank of Bilbao and the Bank of Spain in London.
This is accompanied by simultaneous attacks by the Angry Brigade, the International Solidarity Movement, and the Marius Jacob group against British Rail, Rolls Royce and Rover offices in Paris.
This is accompanied by the 11th Communique from the Angry Brigade.
www.textfiles.com /politics/SPUNK/sp000540.txt   (4782 words)

  
 THE ANGRY BRIGADE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
De naam Angry Brigade die nu voor het eerst gebruikt word is zowel een verwijzing naar de enrages, als naar de anarchistische brigades in de Spaanse burgeroorlog.
De aanslag wordt opgeëist door de Angry Brigade met opnieuw een communiqué waarin de afsluitende leus 'daar eindigt de wanhoop en begint de tactiek' van Raoul Vaneigem is, de minst dogmatische van de originele situ's.
Een raar document dat eigenlijk te zeurderig theoretisch is om Angry Brigade te zijn.Het is ook het laatste keer dat de naam gebruikt wordt totdat in november 1980 de Angry Brigade II opduikt met een lange verklaring waarin de politieke situatie geanalyseerd wordt.
www.socialfiction.org /angry.htm   (7124 words)

  
 The Angry Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Angry Brigade was a British libertarian communist urban guerilla group responsible for a long string of bomb attacks around Britain between 1970 and 1972.
Strongly influenced by anarchism and the Situationists, their targets included banks, embassies and the homes of Tory MPs.
The home of libertarian communism and anarchism in the UK Angry Brigade: Documents and Chronology, 1967-1984
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Angry_Brigade   (396 words)

  
 The Spectator.co.uk
Sillitoe was the angriest of the Angry Young Men, and Seaton — a ‘billygoat trying to screw the world...because it’s trying to do the same to me’ — the most rebellious and unforgiving of his creations.
Where an angry young man was a cool thing to be in the Fifties, today anger is seen as the root of all evil, as the cause of crime and violence in the workplace and of sickness and disease in the young.
What the anti-angry brigade overlook, of course, is that anger is not merely a ‘valid’ emotion that is apparently best expressed with the help of an expensive coach; it is also a positive emotion, sometimes moving individuals to change their lives and even achieve great things.
www.lewrockwell.com /spectator/spec417.html   (1145 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Angry Brigade took their name from a defunct anarchist group that operated in London of the 1970s and 1980s.
It is possible that the Angry Brigade attack was perpetrated in hopes of strengthening ties between the Italian and Greek anarchist terrorists.
It is unknown whether the Angry Brigade was merely a cover name for another terrorist group or an individual.
www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=13   (463 words)

  
 svet umetnosti 2000/01
One of the political examples for the use of multiple names is the Angry Brigade, which was responsible for a series of bombings in the late 60's and early 70's.
So, in my opinion, the discourse of the Angry Brigade is a great example for the empty signifier logic, which, in the end, is also the logic of multiple names within the field of politics.
Instead, this link was established by the Angry Brigade in a merely imaginary fashion, not as a movement but as the identity of the universal with itself.
www.ljudmila.org /scca/worldofart/english/0001/tekst_oliver_ang.htm   (2465 words)

  
 Reviews - Granny made me an anarchist
There is an interesting description of the political and military thoughts of the Angry Brigade comrades and the state assault on those picked out as being the men and women behind the resistance.
Looking back, and indeed at the present, I think the Angry Brigade were right, not each and every sentence they wrote, the communiqués are probably the worse thing of their entire campaign at times being pidgin-politics, or every tactic they employed, but overall.
The Angry Brigade disbanded because of the other bomb attacks and shootings taking place at the time, and their wish not to be confused with ‘outrage’ and anti-working class actions.
www.minersadvice.co.uk /reviews_granny_anarchist.htm   (1730 words)

  
 Angry Brigade: Introduction
Described as `mad', `terrorists', `adventurists', or at best authors of `gestures of a worrying desperation', the Angry Brigade were condemned without any attempt to analyse their actions or to understand what they signified in the general context of the class struggle in course.
The means used to justify this were simple: by defining the actions of the Angry Brigade as `terrorist', and equating this with `individualist', the movement organisations -- whose tendency is to see the relationship between individual and mass as something in contrast -- neatly excluded them from their concerns.
By their actions the Angry Brigade also became a part of that spectacle, but a part that took form in order to contribute to its destruction.
www.huzzam.com /etext/angbdocumchro/Introduction.html   (3177 words)

  
 The Angry Brigade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The actions of the Brigade came an end in one of the longest trials of English history (May 30 1972 - December 6).
The actions of the Brigade were by a series of cryptic communiques which thus:
I was blessed to spend almost 2 years in the beautiful country of Brazil.
www.freeglossary.com /Angry_Brigade   (193 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
The demise of the First of May Group was followed by the rise of the Angry Brigade, a grouping of middle-class individuals, most them women, many of them university graduates; the "Angries" stole and defrauded to finance their aim of destroying capitalism and the bourgeois way of life in Britain they affected to abhor.
The fall of the Angry Brigade began in February 1971 when one of its members, Jack Prescott, was arrested.
The Angry Brigade's defeat was followed by the most intense onslaught ever mounted on the mainland by the IRA.
www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/24/db2401.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/11/24/ixopright.html   (1165 words)

  
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According to the Brigade's champion, Tom Vague, they were a ‘small left-wing group which in the name of the working-class mounted sporadic attacks upon various representatives of the ruling class or establishment’.(Vague 2000) One of Britain’s few home-grown terrorist group, the Brigade succeeded in embarrassing the Heath government for the year following August 1970.
Similarly the Brigade were clear that it was not the impact of the explosives per se that worried the government, it was the vulnerabilities they exposed.
The Brigade had been ‘secretly attempting to recruit individual gay men and lesbians’ hoping to utilise the GLF’s numerous and widespread networks for the Brigade’s own access to the underground, thereby establishing a ‘gay-wing’ through the GLF.(Power 1995: 186) To a degree this relationship was reciprocated.
www.neha.nl /~womhist/robinson.doc   (5343 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Critique - The angry years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This reviewer was working on the London radical "underground" press when the Angry Brigade communiques announcing one bombing after another were shoved through the door in the early 1970s, and when Christie and his associates went on trial at the Old Bailey.
Otherwise, as our own homes, persons and offices could testify, the whole Angry Brigade campaign seemed nothing more than a self-indulgent exercise in giving a hostile, paranoid government and police force the perfect excuse to raid, prosecute and suppress all sections of the metropolitan libertarian left.
In years to come at least a couple of the convicted Angries would acknowledge that and apologise, just as Christie now concedes that he is grateful not to have Franco’s blood on his hands.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /critique.cfm?id=1094612004   (942 words)

  
 The Angry Brigade - John Barker
It is interesting not only as the only written account of The Angry Brigade by one of those involved, but in is criticism of a glamourisation of the struggles of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In 1971-2 I was convicted in the Angry Brigade trial and spent 7 years in jail.
But it can be stronger than that of the automatic 'we' when borne of mutual respect and if it includes those made furiously angry by our government of Christian Bolsheviks as their rhetoric of inclusion becomes ever more excluding.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/7672/barker.html   (3827 words)

  
 Parasol Records : The Bear Quartet : Angry Brigade
As predicted we have now arrived at The Bear Quartet’s new album ‘Angry Brigade’ (released in Sweden in September), their eleventh proper studio album.
‘Angry Brigade’ is the band’s fiercest and most tightly-wound record since ‘Moby Dick’, incorporating both the band’s sublime pop sophistication and madcap punk/noise roots.
‘Angry Brigade’, along with the rest of the band’s output might appeal to fans of The Smiths, Wilco, Radiohead, Badly Drawn Boy, Teenage Fanclub, and Dinosaur Jr.
www.parasol.com /bearquartet/angrybrigade.asp   (288 words)

  
 New Statesman: The urban guerrillas Britain forgot - Angry Brigade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The arrests were made barely weeks after the end of another celebrated trial, that of the editors of the underground magazine Oz, a tale that has been recreated for the stage, for television and in endless memoirs.
The Angry Brigade trial, and the bombings that led to it, were equally momentous, yet there are no dramas, no memoir.
But the Brigade was as essential a part of that loved and loathed era as the "swinging" Biba boutique it bombed.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4552_130/ai_77874877   (1418 words)

  
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ANGRY BRIGADE COMMUNIQUES First Communique BROTHERS & SISTERS: We expect the news of the machine-gunning of the Spanish Embassy in London on Thursday night to be suppressed by the bourgeois Press...
Communique 4 The Angry Brigade Communique 4 Communiques Communique 6 Contents Communique 5 We are no mercenaries.
ANGRY BRIGADE MOONLIGHTER'S CELL POINT YOUR GUN Thirteenth Communique The Angry Brigade bombing of Chris Bryant's home in Birmingham has brought attention to the activities of the Bryant building combine.
www.spunk.org /texts/groups/agb/sp000539.txt   (2709 words)

  
 LRB | David Edgar : Vindicated!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
At the first Angry Brigade trial, Purdie and Prescott were charged with conspiring with the others to cause explosions, a charge of which Purdie was acquitted and Prescott found guilty on the basis of a police cell boast to an informer and his handwriting on three envelopes containing communiqués.
Christie emphasises the working-class credentials of the Scottish anarchist movement, but although the Angry Brigade’s rhetoric located its politics firmly in the context of the class struggle, the day to day activities of those convicted of being members were different in several ways from those whom John Barker called the ‘Bolshevik psychos’.
Third, those involved with the Angry Brigade believed that ministers, policemen and other people in power should be held personally responsible for their actions (hence the bombs planted at their homes).
www.lrb.co.uk /v26/n24/edga01_.html   (2197 words)

  
 New Statesman - Cover story - The urban guerrillas Britain forgot
In the late Sixties and early Seventies, the Angry Brigade enraged the establishment.
The establishment, urged on by the then prime minister, Edward Heath, mounted a frenzied, and often desperate, response: the Brigade was to be "smashed".
Perhaps most damning was the discovery of the John Bull stamp, still bearing the incriminating words "Angry Brigade".
www.newstatesman.com /200108270005   (1673 words)

  
 The Observer | Comment | In the pink
She was tried, and acquitted, for planting Angry Brigade bombs in the 1970s.
She is painfully aware of the potential controversy herself and refuses to discuss the Angry Brigade in interviews.
In her new £80,000-a-year job working at the DTI with Patricia Hewitt, a predecessor of whom, John Davies, was bombed by the Angry Brigade in 1971, the claims of selling out will certainly emerge once more.
www.observer.co.uk /comment/story/0,6903,846347,00.html   (1480 words)

  
 3am Interview: LOOKING BACK AT ANGER: AN INTERVIEW WITH STUART CHRISTIE
Detective Superintendent Habershon, the officer leading the Angry Brigade investigation had turned it into a vendetta almost, something which the jury picked up on -- and they acquitted me on all charges, including possession of two detonators which the police had planted in my car.
The positive and important thing that came out of the Angry Brigade case in my view, was -- apart from the trial providing us, the defendants, with a public platform -- the fact that the jury system shone out as the last defender of justice over law.
Fortunately, the Angry Brigade didn't go the same way, not because they were British but because they kept a firm grip on reality.
www.3ammagazine.com /politica/2004/apr/interview_stuart_christie.html   (3185 words)

  
 stdin: [sixties-l] Angry Brigade's bomb plot apology (fwd)
DNA from the scene of the crime to samples taken from new suspects.
The Angry Brigade was accused of carrying out 25 attacks on government
A second 'member' of the Angry Brigade has also chosen the thirtieth
lists.village.virginia.edu /lists_archive/sixties-l/4019.html   (490 words)

  
 The Angry Brigade : Angry Brigade
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