Angry Brigade
The Angry Brigade was an anarchist -leaning, situationism- influenced British terrorist group in the early 1970s.
Between 1970 and 1972, the Angry Brigade carried out a total of 25 bomb attacks in London in front of the embassies of Franco Spain and other countries, in front of banks and the houses of politicians from the then ruling Conservatives . Only property damage was intended, but one person was slightly injured. When eight suspects of membership in the Angry Brigade were caught, they turned out to be counter - cultural dropouts and unemployed, some of whom had acted amateurishly. Four of them - John Barker , Jim Greenfield , Hilary Creek and Anna Mendleson - were each sentenced to 10 years in prison in one of the longest trials in British judicial history (May to December 1972). The rest were acquitted, including Stuart Christie , a Scottish anarchist and editor of the Black Flag , who had previously served three years in Spanish prisons as a prevented assassin against the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. He was able to convince the jury that the detonators found in his car had been deposited by police officers.
See also
literature
- Gordon Carr: The Angry Brigade. The cause and the case . Victor Gollancz Ltd. , London 1975, ISBN 0-575-01992-1 .
- Tom Vague: Anarchy in the UK. The Angry Brigade . AK Press , London 1997, ISBN 1-873176-98-8 .