As unrest intensified in 1970s Britain, a group of young people decided to fight against

fascism, colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, factory bosses and the Conservative Government.

Armed with guns, bombs and a sense of humour, they called themselves the Angry Brigade,

and their story culminated in what became the longest criminal trial in the UK to date.

This is working class history.

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Long-term listeners might recall that our episodes two to three were about the Angry Brigade.

However, like all of our first episodes, it was basically raw audio from our interview, so the sound quality wasn't great, there wasn't narrative to fill any gaps, explain context and pull the story together.

So in addition to making new episodes for you, we're still going back over our earliest episodes to re-edit and release them in this new narrative format that we use for all of our later episodes.

So we've added quite a lot of information here to explain things better and tell the story in a kind of cohesive way.

So we hope you enjoy it, whether you listen to the original one or not.

We've decided to redo this episode now because recently we've produced a number of episodes about the same time period in the UK.

So our episodes 65 to 66 were about the

1972 Builders strike, 67 to 68 were about the Grunwick strike also in the 70s and

our episode 81 was about minor strikes around the same time.

The Agribe Brigade itself first emerged in the summer of 1970 in the run-up to the election of the Conservative

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