Today in Labor History May 30, 1972: The Angry Brigade went on trial in the UK for a series of bombings it had carried out. In total, the police blamed 25 separate bombings on the far-left militant group. Targets included banks, embassies, the BBC and the homes of some Members of Parliament. No one died from the bombings. The court acquitted four of the eight activists in the trial.

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Today in Labor History February 9, 1969: The anarchist Angry Brigade bombed the Bank of Spain in Liverpool, England. The Angry Brigade was a far-left group that committed 25 bombings in England between 1969 and 1972. a series of bomb attacks in England between 1970 and 1972. They targeted banks, embassies, the BBC, and the homes of Conservative Members of Parliament. No one was killed in the bombings. 8 people later stood trial, four were acquitted. John Barker, along with Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelssohn and Jim Greenfield, were convicted on majority verdicts, and sentenced to ten years.

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Italian anarchist #GiuseppePinelli fell to his death from the 4th floor of a police HQ #OTD #15dicembre 1969.

In my book 'All You Need is Dynamite' I reveal how in revenge, local revolutionaries bombed the Italian consul in Manchester #AngryBrigade One of the people later accused of the Manchester attack was a former Head Girl of Stockport High School for Girls. The book documents this local terror group. At least one of them was a big fan of #LSD He’s interviewed in the book.

https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/the-angry-brigade-1967-1984

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50 years ago: The Trial of the Stoke Newington Eight
The Angry Brigade was one of the most famous and controversial phenomenons of the 1970s. Rising out of the general furor of the period, which had also produced the likes of the Red Army Faction in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy, the non-lethal group carried out a series of property bombings leading to a hysterical pre
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/05/30/50-years-ago-the-trial-of-the-stoke-newington-eight/
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50 years on: The trials of Purdie and Prescott
In this extract from the mid-December 1971 issue of Freedom, Nicolas Walter reported on court proceedings in the cases of Ian Purdie and Jake Prescott as they faced accusations of conspiring towards a series of bombings attributed to the anarchist Angry Brigade.

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https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/12/14/50-years-on-the-trials-of-purdie-and-prescott/
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