E84: Angry Brigade, part 2

Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

5.0 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Second in a double podcast about the Angry Brigade, Britain’s first home-grown urban guerrilla group, in the 1960s and 70s, in conversation with John Barker, who was put on trial as part of the group.
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Continuing our recent series of episodes about the UK in the 1970s, this is a re-edited, improved and re-released version of our episodes 2-3. It contains numerous additional audio clips, and written narrative to provide context and more information.
More information

Gordon Carr, The Angry Brigade: A History Of Britain’s First Urban Guerilla Group (PM Press, 2010) – a detailed history of the Angry Brigade.
The Angry Brigade 1967-1984: Documents And Chronology (Active Distribution) – a pamphlet containing a detailed chronology of the organisation and the scene of which it was a part, as well as documents produced by the group
The Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise And Fall Of Britain’s First Urban Guerilla Group – a DVD documentary by Gordon Carr on the history of the group.
John Barker, Futures (PM Press, 2014) – novel by John Barker set in Thatcher’s Britain.
Timeline of Stories about the Angry Brigade
TheHarrier.net – John Barker’s website including his other books and writings.
Anselm Jappe, Guy Debord (PM Press, 2018) – the best biography of Situationist intellectual Guy Debord.
Red Army Faction books – a collection of books about the German RAF.
John Barker’s radical London playlist – a collection of tracks which Brigaders were listening to at the time.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to our patreon supporters for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Jazz Hands, Jamison D. Saltsman and Fernando López Ojeda.
Edited by Tyler Hill
Theme tune is ‘Bella Ciao’, thanks for permission to use it from Dischi del Sole. You can purchase it here or stream it here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to part two of our double podcast episode about the Angry Brigade,
0:05.6	Britain's first homegrown urban guerrilla group.
0:08.1	If you haven't heard it yet, we'd recommend going back and listening to Part 1 first.
0:12.1	At the morning,
0:16.9	apennelata, oh bella chow. First off a while First off,
0:21.6	Oh, bella,
0:24.6	Ciao, Bella,
0:25.6	and in return,
0:26.6	and in return,
0:27.6	get exclusive early First off, just a reminder that our podcast is brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:38.7	Our supporters fund our work and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes,
0:43.3	bonus episodes, free and discounted merch and other content.
0:46.7	For example, our Patreon supporters can listen to an exclusive bonus episode to this episode.
0:52.1	Join us and find out more at patreon.com slash working class history.
0:56.8	Link in the show notes. Where we left off last time, the Angry Brigade had bombed the house
1:01.8	of Robert Carr, the Conservative Minister of Employment, who was bringing in the Industrial Relations
1:06.8	Act, which was aimed at preventing wildcat or unofficial strikes organized by workers themselves.
1:13.1	It would also strengthen control over industrial action to official union leaderships and tie unions more closely to the state by mandating that unions officially register with the state.
1:24.1	At this point, it became clear that the media and authorities couldn't ignore the Angra Brigade anymore.
1:28.3	I suppose because it was knew they took it seriously.
1:32.3	Given what's happened subsequently, you think, well, this...
1:36.3	But at the time, they took it seriously and thought this was an attack on...
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