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Angry Brigade Documents and Chronology THE ANGRY BRIGADE 1967 -1984 000 of the main criticisms of the Angry Brigade was -- and still is - that their actions unleashed a wave of repression against the Left in Britain. But the fact that until then the Left had been left relatively undisturbed does not mean that repression did not exist, and is not being enforced every moment of the day in every sphere of proletarian life. Whether this repression uses its instruments of war (police, rubber bullets, lead bulets, tanks, etc) depends on the level the struggle is at beyond the offlciaJ instruments of defence (trade unions, parties), and which in reality are part of the 'kid glove' side of repression along with the media and the church. However smalI, however insignificant it may seem, any action which disregards the rules, whieh does ~ not seek a mediator, which excludes the logic of dialogue, is a potential danger to the 1'1 status quo, not only of the State and the capitalists, but also of the offieial workers' J movement. In this framework the Angry Brigade emerge not as a deviation but as a conerete altemative proposition in response to the intensification of the elass struggle at the time. Not only their communiques but the actions themselves were in the Iogic of revolutionary counter-information, reaching out beyond offieial ehannels to undertine the institutional violenee of the system, and to show that institutions are made of men. Men are vulnerable and ean be attaeked - one partieularty palnful area of attaek is their property, and that is where the Angry Brigade ehose to strike. Coverdesgned by CllffordHarper i DOCUMENTS ELEPHANTEOmONS .f.. 2.00 ~AND CHRONOLOGY ANARCHIST POCKETBOOKS 3 ( First published in 1978 by Bratach Dubh Anarchist Pamphlets This pocketbook edition published in /985 by Elephant Editions, BM Elephant, London WC 1N 3XX Cover Design by Clifford Harper CONTENTS Second Edition January 1993 Third Edition August 2005 Introduction 7 Communiques 19 Notes 32 Chronology 34 The 5truggle Continues ... 53 Communiques 54 ~" '"'~~~ •• <~" INTRODUCTION The eight libertarian militants on trial in the Old Bailey in 1972 i who were chosen by the BritishState to be the 'conspirators' of the Angry Brigade, found themselveli facing not only the dass enemy with all its instruments of repression, but also the obtuseness and incomprehension-when not condemnation-of the organised left. Oescribed as 'mad', 'terrorists', 'adventurists', or at best au• thors of 'gestures of a worrying desperation', the Angry Brigade were condemned without any attempt to analyse their actions or to understand what they signifiedin the general context of the dass struggle in course. The means used to justify this were simple: by defining the actions of the Angry Brigade as 'terrorist', and equat• ing this with 'individualist', the movement organisations-whose tendency is to see the relationship between individual and mass as samething in contrast--neatly exduded them from their concems. Strangely enough this attitude was not limited to the broad left but was also prevalent within the anarchist movement, where stilltoday there is a tendency to ignore the role of the individual within the mass, and the role of the specific group within the mass movement. When the question is raised, it is usually inthe form of absolute con• demnation. For example, in an article entitled 'Terrorism' [sic] we read: 'If a few people take it upon themselves to engage in 'Armed Struggle', this speils out for us, besides the usual public hostility, police harassment, arrests and defence campaigns. the lass of all our politicallessons, gains and strengths'.(C1ass War) 1 7 The problems encountered by the comrades of the Angry cal understanding of millions of people.' Understandable enough in Brigade were similar to those of other groups active at the time view of the Leninist program. But from the anart:hist perspective? who had refused the limits of struggle delineated by the State-the We read on the front page of a fairlyrecent issue ofFreedom. 'Even so-called limitsoflegality, beyond which the repressive mechanism is the bombing campaign carried out by the Angry Brigade wh ich was unleashed-and taken as their points of reference the level of mass technically brilliant.. achieved absolutely nothing because. in direct struggle. This decision was in defiance ofthe State's definition ofthe contradiction with their spoken ideals. they were trying to act as struggle's confines. It also defied the limits imposed by the official an elite vanguard leaving ordinary people as passive spectators of workers' movement and the extra-parliamentary organisations, their actions. Far from this resulting in an 'awakening of the masses' induding the anarchist movement. The Symbionese Uberation Army it resulted in a fear of anarchism and anarchist ideas which has sig• in the USothe RAF in Germany. the first of the Red Brigades in ltaly, nificantly contributed to our current impotence.' were all isolated by the 'revolutionary' organisations, condemned as agitators, provocateurs, individualist terrorists threatening the As we can see. the old preoccupation persists: that of protecting growth of the mass movement. the movement (especially the anarchist one) from the 'adventur• ists·. On the attitude to the SLA, Martin Sostre was to write in America: 'The denunciation of the SLA by the movement press is In fact the movement of the exploited is not and never has indistinguishable from that of the ruling dass. Each left organisation been one monolithic mass all acting together with the same level seems to be competing with the others for their legitimacy by de• of awareness. The struggle against capital has from the beginning nouncing the SLA... Conspicuously absent from the denunciations is been characterised by a dichotomy between the official workers' any discussion of the role of armed struggle. Revolutionary violence movement on the one hand, with i15various organisations-par• is seen as something repulsive that should be shunned. The left ties, unions. etc. channelling dissent into a manageable form of movement press would have one believe that to overthrow the quantitative mediation with the bosses. And on the other hand. the criminal ruling dass we have merely to organise mass movements, often less visible movement of 'uncontrollables' who emerge from demonstrations of protest and repeat revolutionary slogans.' time to time in explicit organisational forms, but who often remain anonymous, responding at individual level by sabotage, expropria• One such paper inthis country-the Trotskyist Red Mole-dis• tion, attacks on property. etc.. in the irrecuperable logic of insur• tinguished itself by calling for solidarity with the comrades accused rection. There is no distinct or fixed dividing line between the two in the Angry Brigade trial. with the following reservation-'It is no movements. They often affect each other. the surge from the base use the organised left criticizing the politics of the Angry Brigade obliging the big official organisations to take a certain direction, or unless we also recognise why a lot of potentially very good com• the inverse, where the latter put a brake an autonomous struggles. rades reject the various Leninist organisations, and indeed resort Many of those who make up the mass of union membership are to bomb-throwing-until you are caught-by i15elfan easy option also extremely active in extra-union (and by definition extra-legal) that does not deal with the problem of helping to change the politi- forms of struggle. Each side, however, has its own heritage: on the 8 9 ~ one a heritage of deals and sellouts. the great victories that are real forms of autonomous revolt. such as that of the many artisans in defeats on the workers' backs; on the other. a heritage of direct the textile industry who, under threat of losing their jobs or of being action, riots. organised insurrections or individual actions which all reduced to non-specialized labourers, organised in armed groups. together form part of the future society we all desire. and without The most significant of these insurrectional movements was that which it would be nothing but a utopian dream. known as Luddism. which took place between /810 and 1820. During this period an immense amount of property was destroyed. A brief look at the development of the struggle in this country including vast numbers of textile frames redesigned to produce shows this duality quite c1early. The organised anticapitalist move• inferior. shoddy goods. The Luddites, takingthe name ofNed Ludd ment aswe know it today began to take shape at the beginning of the who had taken a sledge hammer to the frames at hand, organised nineteenth century. Unlike the other European capitalist countries themselves locally and even federally with great coordination. and developing at the same time, there was only a minor communist in spite of vast deployments of soldiers. especially in West Riding influence both at organisational and ideologicallevel. Traditional and Yorkshire where the movement was strongest, generalised British anti-intellectualism and 'common sense' were perhaps fun• insurrection was approached on more than one occasion. As John damental to a more pragmatic form of organisation which took the Zerzan points out. this was not the despairing outburst of work• form of trades unions. These unions were from the start reformist. ers having no other outlet. as a long tradition of unionism was in although at times. through pressure from the base. some knew existence among textile workers and others prior to and during insurrectional moments. The changes the unions proposed were the Luddite uprisings. however usually intended to come about using nonviolent methods within the constitutionallimits. The most numerically significant of In the early 1830'5 it was the turn of agricultural workers to the early worker's movements was the Chartist one, which began become casuallabourers to organise in the 'army' of Captain Swing, ar()und 1838.
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