15 25 420 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/22c2368dedf837c3a2670a64c63ea2ab.jpg 65d2d528f91785d67d4763a3cab6b6a8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stuart Christie in Carabanchel, 1967 Carabanchel Clandestine prison Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/cf49f9eb73c63fa6d38c6b81ac3530c1.jpg 5136c495c039a4c16d7a952b23b8ba33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christie-Carballo Defence Committee, Speakers' Corner (1964) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie: 'London, Speakers' Corner, August 1964 (Mike Callinan of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation addressing the protest meeting)' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964 prison Protest Spain Syndicalist Workers Federation https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/e5e6a72ab3461cbcd230670f9733614d.jpg b4e6ac2747379c7395877aa9984207ec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stuart Christie and fellow British prisoner Jimmy Wagner, Madrid (1967) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): 'Alcalá de Henares Penintentiary with Jimmy Wagner (Jimmy was serving 30 years for murdering a moneylender). For Glaswegian style aficionados, my shirt is a Bob Fletcher original . . . Alcalá penitentiary, originally — pre-Franco — the 17th century Convento de Santo Tomás — is now, believe it or nor, a luxury hotel, a Parador no less!' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1967 Madrid Mutual Aid prison Solidarity Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/1a803d60eaf659b8e92eb0cf86d848d9.jpg 96aa21af56568cab3b802e5676e85f50 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographs Description An account of the resource Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Octavio Alberola and Ariane Gransac in Ariane's studio (1970) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): 'Rue Léon-Jouhaux, 1970: studio apartment of Ariane Gransac and her partner Octavio Alberola (with yours truly in the mirror). Octavio, coordinator of the clandestine Defensa Interior (D.I.) betwen 1962 and 1964 when it was disowned and sabotaged by the exiled CNT leadership of Germinal Esgleas and Vicente Llansola (subsequently morphing into the First of May Group), was considered at the time to be Franco's Public Eenemy No.1. His dad, José Alberola, a highly regarded anarchist writer and teacher, was murdered by four men in his Mexico City flat on 1 May 1967, the anniversary of the kidnapping in Rome of Mgr Marcos Ussia, Franco's ecclesiastical envoy to the Vatican.' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970 Anti-Franco Ariane Gransac Defensa Interior Exile MLE Octavio Alberola Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/88875ea6960219cea6fdeaaab593b3e6.jpg 342a8547417812026f165f90d1e17f0e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographs Description An account of the resource Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stuart Christie at work on the gas network, 1970 Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): '1970 (summer): from 1969 to 1971 I was working long hours [and well-paid] for the then William Press & Son engineering company, converting North London and the Home Counties from town gas to natural gas. It was a period that coincided with a peak in the Europe-wide anti-Francoist and anti-US/Vietnam War activities of the anarchist ‘First of May Group’ and the birth of the so-called ‘Angry Brigade’. I was the chargehand on D28, the van in this photo, and thereby hang a number of tales. The following account is from ‘Edward Heath Made Me Angry’: “The police ‘leaked’ a story to the Daily Express [about Europe-wide non-lethal attacks on aeroplanes and properties of Iberia Airlines and other Francoist institutions]. The man responsible, according to ‘police sources,’ was a person readily identifiable as yours truly. Unfortunately, libel actions are only a rich man’s way of getting richer. Had I been Randolph Churchill I could have walked off with enough money to live without working for the rest of my life. As it was, I continued converting the Home Counties — to Natural Gas — and limited my response to a statement issued through my lawyer, Ben Birnberg, denying any involvement in the actions. On the afternoon in question, I had been at a garden party at the home of two close friends up Crouch Hill, Valerie and Graham Packham. One of my ‘alibis’ was a senior police officer who lived next door. Almost a fortnight after the attacks on the Iberia planes another incident occurred on 22 May that was to mark the emergence of what was to become known as the ‘Angry Brigade.’ It was the discovery of a small explosive device with a timing device on the building site of the high security police station in Paddington. Coincidentally, the previous week had seen the spectacular escape of Andreas Baader from Tegel Prison in West Germany. This was the birth of the ‘Red Army Fraktion,’ the RAF. If astrology was involved in this conjuncture — which also saw the first Weather Underground communiqué in the States and their bombing of New York City’s Police Headquarters — the people in these groups must have been born on very different cusps, as they were to evolve in very different ways. Things began to heat up in the early summer of 1970. On my way home from Harrow on the Hill one evening— it was in the run up to the June elections — I became aware that I was being followed in what appeared to be a fairly substantial surveillance operation either by the police or MI5’s ‘Watchers’ from Euston Tower in Gower Street. Knowing I was being shadowed made it relatively easy for me to lose them around the back streets of Wembley and Willesden, and I didn’t think much more of it — until the same thing happened the following day. While driving out of our base at the North Thames Gas Board yard at Harrow-on-the-Hill, I noticed a green car following me. My normal route took me through the back doubles of North London to get home to Finsbury Park. This routine was to avoid the rush-hour traffic rather than MI5’s cloak and dagger men from Gower Street. I knew this part of London like the back of my hand, having converted most of it to Natural Gas so I took my followers on a Cook’s tour of the Betjemanesque suburbs, during the course of which I discovered that I had at least three cars and two motorcyclists tailing me. Wherever I went the lambs were sure to follow. Failing to shake them, I eventually ended up driving along Finchley Road at a mere fifteen miles an hour, with the surveillance cars and motorcycles following me like a funeral procession with outriders. If I had had a passenger I would have got him to walk in front of the car, hat in hand. When we got to Highgate Hill the traffic into London from the A1 and M1 motorway had built up. Suddenly, the Devil made me pull out and accelerate into the oncoming northbound traffic, pulling into the correct lane when a gap presented itself, or forced to by large lorries heading straight for me. The Hillman Hunters decided not to pursue me. A few minutes later I was in the back streets of Archway and heading for home, taking care to park my car streets away from our flat. My official address was the old office of the Anarchist Black Cross, which we had given up, but I still had a key and collected our mail every other day. The next day when I arrived at work, a cavalcade of cars and vans were parked all around my sector. I thought at first that it might have something to do with the election, but no — it was the ‘watchers. … ‘ ‘…One day I cracked a joke to my shop steward and unit manager about the increased surveillance, but they didn’t believe me — at first. Then they checked for themselves and reported back on the two-way radio that they had counted six parked Hillman Hunters and Minxes with similarly sequenced registration plates on my conversion sector, occupied by what were obviously plainclothes policemen or spooks. There were also two motorcyclists in the area — with green army bikes, green army-issue crash helmets and heavy-duty military raincoats. Gerry, my foreman, laughed and said that I was being paranoid. Jokingly I suggested we swap cars for the night [I had a Ford Corsair GT 2000E]. It was Monday and the sector was not a particularly difficult one, so I left early and managed to drive off in Gerry’s car [a flash Daimler Sovereign] without being spotted by the waiting column of undercover cars. Gerry returned to the Harrow base in my car and then went on to a pub. Surprise, surprise — he found he was being followed. This time the procession was tailing him. First they waited outside the pub, from there they followed him to the Chinese restaurant and waited outside until he finally went home — at one in the morning. For three weeks after that I used up every trick ever seen in a B film, including lying on the floor of the William Press van and being driven to my car which had been parked up in a helpful lady’s garage four or five miles away (I had converted her appliances on a previous sector) and more fast car chases around the North Circular Road. Every Gas Board contractor in Harrow on the Hill — and there were hundreds of us — knew the men in the Hillman Hunters and, occasionally, to be different, a Triumph Vitesse, were policemen and would constantly wind them up by asking for the time, ‘officer’. They had the time all right. What they didn’t have — for a while — was the opportunity. They finally brought in a van with mirrored one-way windows and observation vents side and top, which they parked in front of my van. When this arrived I promptly turned my van round so they could only see our rear. Even so, all they could have learned was how to convert gas appliances, play poker and tell jokes. It may seem incredible to the seasoned reporter, though readily acceptable to the general reader, that the First of May Group had no plans to blow up Harrow School, and the police had no reason to watch me at work on a William Press’s conversion van. One thing that drove the police crazy at this time was that after a week of following the Corsair, I started turning up for work every Monday morning in a brand new car. Sometimes I changed my car twice or three times in a week. The police couldn’t understand what was going on. What had happened was that a friend — a member of the People Show, an improvising radical theatre troupe — had a day job managing the Hertz Rental office at Luton airport, and he was providing my car fleet. The police went to Luton to question my friend as to who was renting these cars, claiming they had been used in a spate of bank robberies in the London area, but he refused to tell them anything unless they provided a court order, which they never did. It took them almost six weeks to discover where I lived. They watched and waited until I left for work one morning, then they made their move. Having watched me leave, they sent a woman detective to ring the doorbell…’ But that’s another story entirely.' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer, 1970 Angry Brigade Anti-Vietnam War First of May Group Red Army Faction Special Branch Surveillance https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/55f9818c6b26e2cc778d40c7bbc221c7.jpg 4c177665a051781b4da99e1fc723fa66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographs Description An account of the resource Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Press conference following Stuart Christie's acquittal, Time Out office (1972) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): 'Time Out Offices (Kings Cross). Acquitted after the then longest 'criminal' trial of the twentieth century (109 days), the so-called 'Angry Brigade' trial. In the picture are left to right at the table: Kate McLean, Angela Weir, SC, and Brenda Earl; standing, l/r is an Evening Standard journalist (forgotten his name), Chris Broad (owner of 29 Grosvenor Avenue, a Women's Liberation/ agitprop house which the police claimed was the hub of the 'conspiracy'), beside him the wonderful Ben Birnberg, my solicitor, and Jeni Styring, his articled clerk. Those who weren't so lucky — John Barker, Hilary Creek, Jim Greenfield and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Mendelssohn">Anna Mendlessohn</a> (now sadly deceased) were each sentenced to 10 years. In an earlier trial Ian Purdie was acquitted and Jake Prescott (now also deceased) was sentenced to 15 years (reduced to ten after our trial) That same evening, Bond and his bespectacled acolyte Habershon held a forty-minute press conference at Scotland Yard. One observer aptly described it as ‘the police equivalent of standing on the corpse’ — a public relations operation to justify all their illegal and questionable actions prior to the trial and to seek a public ‘mandate’ for the stepping up of their onslaught on civil liberties. Tony Smythe, General Secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), described their aim as an attempt ‘to exploit the aftermath of the trial in a way likely to encourage unnecessary public alarm.’ Crime reporters from the national press were welcomed as long-lost friends. The affection with which DS Habershon greeted Daily Mirror crime hack Tom Tullet was cringe-making. ‘Good to see you, Tom,’ said Habershon, vigorously pumping his hand and smiling. No thoughtful, in-depth pieces from the Daily Mirror then. Bond and Habershon named two more people they wanted to interview in connection with Angry Brigade bombings while we were inside: Gerry Osner and Sarah Poulikakou, both of whom were living abroad at the time. In spite of the jury’s verdicts, Habershon and Bond remained adamant that everyone who had stood in the dock was guilty. As evil Sheriff Little Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s classic western, Unforgiven, says of another of his many innocent victims — ‘Innocent of what?’ In reply to a protest by one of the journalists, Bond said: ‘How do we know that the eight did not do it?’ He made various unflattering comments about the eight of us as a whole, and a pointed reference about me in particular: ‘The evidence presented during the trial showed quite clearly the defendant’s international links. The explosives came from France and Christie had contacts there and in Spain ... Christie has admitted being an anarchist.’ Someone interjected: ‘But that is not the same as being a member of the Angry Brigade.’ Bond answered, ‘What’s the difference?’ As far as he was concerned, all the eight people charged were militant members of the Angry Brigade, including me. And in a way he was right. The construction the judge had put on conspiracy meant that everyone was guilty. A.T. Sandrock, a Daily Telegraph crime correspondent immediately suggested the remark should be off the record. ‘I am sure we can’t quote you on that, Ernie!’ Bond took the hint and agreed. But for the rest of his life Bond continued to make similar comments and harboured a deep resentment towards us. Interviewed in 2002 by Martin Bright of The Observer he recalled: ‘They were a cunning lot, the Angry Brigade, well wrapped up in that anarchist movement. They were belligerent and very “anti” and there was no sense that they were sorry for what they had done. Right from the start there were allegations that we’d planted this and planted that. It was the most disgraceful trial I’ve ever seen in my experience.’ Methinks Ernie protested too much! There was no victory for either side, and no defeat either. The only victory was for the jury system itself. The jury had carried the day by showing that trials are about justice as well as law. By rejecting much of the prosecution case the jury had shown that the conduct of Bond and Habershon’s officers had left something to be desired. The judges and the politico-legal establishment were appalled at just how close all of us in the dock had come to being acquitted — in their view, in defiance of the law and in blatant disregard of the evidence. That would have been disastrous. The jury — as John Barker described it, ‘the critically intelligent citizenry in action’ — had responded positively by acquitting half of us, and asking for clemency for the remaining four. Our trial also put getting rid of juries altogether firmly on the state’s agenda The Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, ordered an immediate post-trial inquiry — which took place between 14 December 1972 and 17 January 1973 — to ‘learn the lessons of the case and to prevent a similar outcome arising in future,’ particularly with regard to jury selection (Public Records Office PREM15/1735). It was another governmental nail in the coffin of the jury system. Never again would defendants be allowed to choose a jury of their peers. Also thereafter, most major trials of a political nature were held outside London, in places such as the commuter belt of Winchester, where the Crown could be reasonably certain of a comfortably middle-class jury list to ensure the conviction of the enemies of the state. Winchester Crown Court happens to be the only Crown Court in England where the majority of the population is employed by the Ministry of Defence. The most famous example being the 1973 trial of the Winchester Eight — Dolours and Marian Price, Gerry Kelly, Hugh Feeney and four others. The eight IRA members were sentenced to life imprisonment, plus twenty years, for the Old Bailey and Great Scotland Yard Police Station bombings in Whitehall in March 1973. One person died and around 200 were injured in the Old Bailey blast. The last trial in Winchester that I recall was that of three IRA members charged in 1988 with the attempted murder of Tom King, the then Minister of Defence.' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10 December, 1972 Angry Brigade Anna Mendelssohn Brenda Earl Counter culture Hilary Creek John Barker Kate McLean Stoke Newington 8 Time Out Underground Women's Liberation https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/cdeb9167a5264d24913b902f1779d197.jpg 88faf922c155902a739553df88c24763 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographs Description An account of the resource Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ariane Gransac, Antonio Téllez Solà and Brenda (1974) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): 'Ariane Gransac, <a href="https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/m37qpw?fbclid=IwAR3teHkY3_dr1Dutig2ULbFPgqogivHLZ5kemlLJSnlS0OwzJRhKUVHKW3Y">Antonio Téllez Solà</a> and Brenda. Téllez, a “ladies’ man” if there ever was one, had been regaling us with tales of the extraordinary exploits of his late departed pet guppy (which disappeared down the bath plughole), along with equally hard-to-believe stories of the soon-to-be-murdered Laureano Cerrada Santos in the Parisian underworld — all while his pet Macaw provided a raucous background soundtrack of abusive invective…' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Paris, Boulevard de Charonne, (1974) Anti-Franco Anti-Franco resistance Antonio Tellez Ariane Gransac Brenda Earl CNT-MLE France Spanish anarchism https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/175b3e9beda779f7d6cc176327e6fd5d.jpg a8f872020d086d6e39f38e6d0c8bc2f2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CND and Committee of 100 Subject The topic of the resource Anti-nuclear activism Description An account of the resource The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in the late 1950s by Bertrand Russell and J.B Priestly. While the initial group was formed by establishment intellectuals, the CND rapidly morphed into a cross-class movement. After Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in 1957, anti-nuclear groups gained hundreds and thousands of new members. <br /><br />As a young teen, Stuart became involved in the anti-nuclear Committee of 100. A split from the ‘celebrity-and-politician dominated’ CND, the Committee of 100 mobilised against nuclear armament and militarism with direct action. This collection includes bits of ephemera and leaflets handed out on anti-nuclear demonstrations by the CND and C100. Also included in t<span>his collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. </span> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Stuart Christie Memorial Archive (Mayday Rooms) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-1970 Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'WAR! IS THE HEALTH OF ALL STATES', Glasgow Anarchist Federation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource mid-1960s Anarchist Federation Anti-War Direct Action Glasgow Peace Movement https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/085df9e2d486060fb4252e6ccaf1c19f.jpg 9893c0606204712b1930bbec90f4cdba https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/d010fa2fabda3fc01e0e89e6de88f3fa.jpg 098183675d7fdf0a705c2dc12c13aab0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British Anarchism, 1960-1968 Description An account of the resource Ephemera, posters, and periodicals produced by the British anarchist movement in the 1960s. This collection includes copies of <em><a href="https://freedompress.org.uk/">Freedom </a></em>and <em>Anarchy. Both</em> publications were published by Freedom Press, the oldest and largest anarchist publishing house in Britain, with its roots in the continental anarchist emigre networks of the 1880s.<br /><br />During the 1960s, Freedom became a source of intense conflict within the British anarchist movement. Vernon Richards, the owner and editor of the publishing house, was at the centre of the controversy. Following the garroting of <a href="https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vhhp7d">two Spanish anarchists</a> in 1963, <span> Richards wrote a column which argued that Franco's tourist boom was beneficial for Spain's working class. This was completely at odds with the tourism boycott supported by the (largely) exiled <em>Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spain's anarcho-syndicalist trade union</em>. <br /> </span><br />Alongside <em>Freedom</em>, this collection also features copies of <em>Direct Action</em>, the paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (the British contingent of the <em>International Workers' Association</em>). Contrary to the line taken by Richards, the SWF supported the CNT's boycott of Spanish tourism. It was during the peak of the anti-tourism campaign, in the summer of 1964, when Stuart Christie moved to Notting Hill in London, which at the time had become an important local hub for CNT exiles. During his stay in London, the anti-tourism campaign in Britain escalated to include forms of direct action – mostly breaking windows - against Spanish travel agencies. <br /><br />Through the SWF, Stuart was introduced to anarchist brothers Bernardo and Salvador (‘Salva’) Gurucharri. Salvador had participated in various clandestine missions to Francoist Spain and had only recently arrived in London following his release from Fresnes prison in Paris. In 1963, during the founding conference of the Anarchist Federation of Britain, Stuart suggested to Salva that he would like to ‘play a direct part in the resistance movement’ and was told to be ‘ready to travel on twenty-four hours notice’. <p></p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1"><span></span></a></p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'VIVA DUTSCHKE', Sussex University February 21st Committee (1968) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Language A language of the resource English Direct Action Dutschke Student movement Student protest Sussex West Germany https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/39b6ce0f77cb6f493e921b43d607263d.jpg 748e76b6d1d4ae62b041b7a43d1c3bdc https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/99f35d56a7d74d161ba96366386829d0.jpg 4ba34d325ec1a86150e9dcad3796e4e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CND and Committee of 100 Subject The topic of the resource Anti-nuclear activism Description An account of the resource The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in the late 1950s by Bertrand Russell and J.B Priestly. While the initial group was formed by establishment intellectuals, the CND rapidly morphed into a cross-class movement. After Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in 1957, anti-nuclear groups gained hundreds and thousands of new members. <br /><br />As a young teen, Stuart became involved in the anti-nuclear Committee of 100. A split from the ‘celebrity-and-politician dominated’ CND, the Committee of 100 mobilised against nuclear armament and militarism with direct action. This collection includes bits of ephemera and leaflets handed out on anti-nuclear demonstrations by the CND and C100. Also included in t<span>his collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. </span> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Stuart Christie Memorial Archive (Mayday Rooms) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-1970 Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'UNITE AT WORK TO END ALL WAR', CND Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Mid-1960s Anti-nuclear Anti-War CND Peace Movement https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/8a49acf8dac5d02be9e9f1a9ab9ec16c.jpg b7f1b05410c6da5382969595f563d1c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British Anarchism, 1960-1968 Description An account of the resource Ephemera, posters, and periodicals produced by the British anarchist movement in the 1960s. This collection includes copies of <em><a href="https://freedompress.org.uk/">Freedom </a></em>and <em>Anarchy. Both</em> publications were published by Freedom Press, the oldest and largest anarchist publishing house in Britain, with its roots in the continental anarchist emigre networks of the 1880s.<br /><br />During the 1960s, Freedom became a source of intense conflict within the British anarchist movement. Vernon Richards, the owner and editor of the publishing house, was at the centre of the controversy. Following the garroting of <a href="https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vhhp7d">two Spanish anarchists</a> in 1963, <span> Richards wrote a column which argued that Franco's tourist boom was beneficial for Spain's working class. This was completely at odds with the tourism boycott supported by the (largely) exiled <em>Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spain's anarcho-syndicalist trade union</em>. <br /> </span><br />Alongside <em>Freedom</em>, this collection also features copies of <em>Direct Action</em>, the paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (the British contingent of the <em>International Workers' Association</em>). Contrary to the line taken by Richards, the SWF supported the CNT's boycott of Spanish tourism. It was during the peak of the anti-tourism campaign, in the summer of 1964, when Stuart Christie moved to Notting Hill in London, which at the time had become an important local hub for CNT exiles. During his stay in London, the anti-tourism campaign in Britain escalated to include forms of direct action – mostly breaking windows - against Spanish travel agencies. <br /><br />Through the SWF, Stuart was introduced to anarchist brothers Bernardo and Salvador (‘Salva’) Gurucharri. Salvador had participated in various clandestine missions to Francoist Spain and had only recently arrived in London following his release from Fresnes prison in Paris. In 1963, during the founding conference of the Anarchist Federation of Britain, Stuart suggested to Salva that he would like to ‘play a direct part in the resistance movement’ and was told to be ‘ready to travel on twenty-four hours notice’. <p></p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1"><span></span></a></p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'The People's Will', Scottish Federation of Anarchists Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1967/8 Desertion Direct Action Mutiny Sabotage Scotland Strikes https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/d21134bc741f8e60f310134540e78fe6.jpg 8e408fd0d003510eb6c26a7ca30f3363 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British Anarchism, 1960-1968 Description An account of the resource Ephemera, posters, and periodicals produced by the British anarchist movement in the 1960s. This collection includes copies of <em><a href="https://freedompress.org.uk/">Freedom </a></em>and <em>Anarchy. Both</em> publications were published by Freedom Press, the oldest and largest anarchist publishing house in Britain, with its roots in the continental anarchist emigre networks of the 1880s.<br /><br />During the 1960s, Freedom became a source of intense conflict within the British anarchist movement. Vernon Richards, the owner and editor of the publishing house, was at the centre of the controversy. Following the garroting of <a href="https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vhhp7d">two Spanish anarchists</a> in 1963, <span> Richards wrote a column which argued that Franco's tourist boom was beneficial for Spain's working class. This was completely at odds with the tourism boycott supported by the (largely) exiled <em>Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spain's anarcho-syndicalist trade union</em>. <br /> </span><br />Alongside <em>Freedom</em>, this collection also features copies of <em>Direct Action</em>, the paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (the British contingent of the <em>International Workers' Association</em>). Contrary to the line taken by Richards, the SWF supported the CNT's boycott of Spanish tourism. It was during the peak of the anti-tourism campaign, in the summer of 1964, when Stuart Christie moved to Notting Hill in London, which at the time had become an important local hub for CNT exiles. During his stay in London, the anti-tourism campaign in Britain escalated to include forms of direct action – mostly breaking windows - against Spanish travel agencies. <br /><br />Through the SWF, Stuart was introduced to anarchist brothers Bernardo and Salvador (‘Salva’) Gurucharri. Salvador had participated in various clandestine missions to Francoist Spain and had only recently arrived in London following his release from Fresnes prison in Paris. In 1963, during the founding conference of the Anarchist Federation of Britain, Stuart suggested to Salva that he would like to ‘play a direct part in the resistance movement’ and was told to be ‘ready to travel on twenty-four hours notice’. <p></p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1"><span></span></a></p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'The Greatest Circus of The Year', Anti-election poster (1964) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Poster Abstention Anarchist Federation Anti-election Anti-state Direct Action London https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/bd425d881a46c3fa4cae1f1f314ea887.jpg 3f5acbe3c44626507c64f9b124ca7ff9 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/f1b4bde4120f5389e1574fd01438f79e.jpg b529a6624d6a0987f32d2a1e659f73b3 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/c0025392a84dd7b0a195bdd567eadddd.jpg 526527e6278c40e9969c7532775708e7 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/489e663c42819201fb0a1fb547df3817.jpg bd367f3354fd819dc4aaa98dc5a2fe4a https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/c763c2c48aa6b6382918576d39d0c2cb.jpg 0647c6ad8c3ab8ec6e8bc435c31ad29e https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/9b616e17231811590617dc97a5edc583.jpg b85539705f985386ae345a9edf83f8cb https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/fcae0db1eb71cf3b27de0e54b616836c.jpg 29c267f84a89a1458ae75091fcc181bc https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/a011b06eef9992a6df8e08f77121cb56.jpg 427d1a8584b2bb3cd945c108a50a301e https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/eab2740d12cdf65be24c8e1b8fa7d91e.jpg 44ca0ded484f1c5226664bb9a709a0bb https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/acce1f492f3f57aafa9ef46997c43010.jpg 3a786db5b87fd2a0cbd2214b10d6f421 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/cd1b60b46fbf6d6ce241905cf7ad232c.jpg fd1327670e13d62e7ced862eb18a30e5 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/7e7f80e721fc9c49b30f6a0b2f52a78f.jpg 1f57a28433746f646f4edc09ca4db3ea https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/4cae122a892b99dd1d5eb95023654e16.jpg eafcab907162ade76184019361e26486 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/419601b1e87e2b58dc1bb4100ef0342b.jpg df3fccb82ca05278702d532606e0f336 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/37daaf9e7fb777e88be0b6cb44343c90.jpg 57bc8941ccf4ae7d678a31112ede1ceb https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/83afaa494937241d4090ae2ddc379972.jpg cfcfaa96f0d6a59d673adf4c9e9b3e92 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/e4fd60028c37fb56f356901b88d48338.jpg 410803977e7719c309168ded58c5ce46 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/662966ceb00c92f54d0d63a5ac428f95.jpg fbc8baa4427d7f7de8a0757f735357f5 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/5748ebbcc76e635dbd3b40581d9b59ce.jpg e136e80394fcab3f8928c4aed067cd3d https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/179686f51be477ad04a1137181e7f28e.jpg 0f2383996deac7872397f24b48948bfa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cienfuegos Press Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Description An account of the resource After Stuart was acquitted by jury in the Angry Brigade trial, he made the decision, following a ‘tip off’ from a special branch officer, to leave London. In 1974, after a judicious period of exile in rural Yorkshire, Stuart and Brenda headed to Orkney, where their daughter, Branwen, was born. Here, with the help of Brenda, Meltzer and others, he set up the ‘Cienfuegos’ Publishing House, where he translated and published a number of elusive Spanish texts. Prisoner solidarity work with the Black Cross would also continue. By the mid-1970s, the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press had taken on a much broader internationalist remit, aiding political prisoners with parcels, letters and donations not only in Spain, but in France, West Germany, Italy, and Northern Ireland. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael Bakunin and Richard Warren, 'A Critique of State Socialism' (Orkney: Cienfuegos Press, 1984) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Anti-state Bakunin Cienfuegos Richard Warren https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/8669b797aad1b1e8a09fbab853038cfb.jpg 2bf26025b07d197fff99892161cab58a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'Arrest of Two Dangerous Terrorists', La Vanguardia, 1964 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964 Anti-Franco Carballo Christie Defensa Interior FIJL MLE Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/fc76e324156f80d05061bc334dd4a000.jpg 50603f6f6194a4993820c770a957f2ba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cienfuegos Press Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Description An account of the resource After Stuart was acquitted by jury in the Angry Brigade trial, he made the decision, following a ‘tip off’ from a special branch officer, to leave London. In 1974, after a judicious period of exile in rural Yorkshire, Stuart and Brenda headed to Orkney, where their daughter, Branwen, was born. Here, with the help of Brenda, Meltzer and others, he set up the ‘Cienfuegos’ Publishing House, where he translated and published a number of elusive Spanish texts. Prisoner solidarity work with the Black Cross would also continue. By the mid-1970s, the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press had taken on a much broader internationalist remit, aiding political prisoners with parcels, letters and donations not only in Spain, but in France, West Germany, Italy, and Northern Ireland. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'Have You Seen the Writing on the Wall?' Cienfuegos Press Advert, New Statesman (1979) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 19 November 1979 Cienfuegos Orkney Over The Water Sanday https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/af100149a31c366855ecb9115021bcda.jpg be22d50c2eb86ba3a8b2d014b4780bac Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cienfuegos Press Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Description An account of the resource After Stuart was acquitted by jury in the Angry Brigade trial, he made the decision, following a ‘tip off’ from a special branch officer, to leave London. In 1974, after a judicious period of exile in rural Yorkshire, Stuart and Brenda headed to Orkney, where their daughter, Branwen, was born. Here, with the help of Brenda, Meltzer and others, he set up the ‘Cienfuegos’ Publishing House, where he translated and published a number of elusive Spanish texts. Prisoner solidarity work with the Black Cross would also continue. By the mid-1970s, the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press had taken on a much broader internationalist remit, aiding political prisoners with parcels, letters and donations not only in Spain, but in France, West Germany, Italy, and Northern Ireland. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cienfuegos Press Advert, New Statesman, 1979 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12 October 1979 Cienfuegos Orkney Over The Water Zapata https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/24927f046ade0eaac2907fe10d952ee8.jpg 2cf91da78fcf16f56334da97a6311c6d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographs Description An account of the resource Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brenda Christie, Octavio Alberola, Ariane Gransac, and Stuart Christie, Paris (1974) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2019): 'The plan on the wall in the background was of the Ayete Palace in San Sebastian, the location for the first Defensa Interior (DI) attempt on Franco's life (organised by Octavio)'. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974 Anti-Franco Ariane Gransac Brenda Christie Defensa Interior Direct Action Exile Octavio Alberola Paris https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/2b6aad5eb87ce2bf35fef1b914c592c9.jpg 148110c24015ae061d281e2e12df3c2c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographs Description An account of the resource Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cienfuegos Press at the County Show Day, Kirkwall (1979) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie: 'The ‘Free-Winged Eagle’ had a wee bit of an impact at the time on the seal-cull, the prospect of uranium mining, halting an SAS exercise — and exposing the role of Orkney’s Lord Lieutenant, the mercenary Brigadier Malcolm Dennison, Britain’s SIS man in Oman and head of the Oman Intelligence Service/Oman Research Department, in installing and maintaining Sultan Qaboos in power. As editor and publisher it earned me the sobriquet of ‘Satan’s emissary on earth’ from the Free Church minister on Westray and Papa Westray, who denounced ‘The Free-Winged Eagle’ from the pulpit as the ‘work o’ the Devil’!'. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979 Anti-nuclear Anti-War Cienfuegos Press Free Winged Eagle Troops Out https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/72ec0ab3a037a2c9c9ac866f804f4b4f.jpg 764e973e8cfb288c0bec165b59ddf267 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cienfuegos Press Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Description An account of the resource After Stuart was acquitted by jury in the Angry Brigade trial, he made the decision, following a ‘tip off’ from a special branch officer, to leave London. In 1974, after a judicious period of exile in rural Yorkshire, Stuart and Brenda headed to Orkney, where their daughter, Branwen, was born. Here, with the help of Brenda, Meltzer and others, he set up the ‘Cienfuegos’ Publishing House, where he translated and published a number of elusive Spanish texts. Prisoner solidarity work with the Black Cross would also continue. By the mid-1970s, the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press had taken on a much broader internationalist remit, aiding political prisoners with parcels, letters and donations not only in Spain, but in France, West Germany, Italy, and Northern Ireland. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'The Death of Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli', Flavio Constantini Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource mid-1970s Anarchist Black Cross Cienfuegos Italy Pinelli Strategy of Tension Years of Lead https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/2aaf36fcfa0762cc2a0e7d1a62a1e792.jpg 62ebaf976821e43b000d2006c6d78c3c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cienfuegos Press Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Description An account of the resource After Stuart was acquitted by jury in the Angry Brigade trial, he made the decision, following a ‘tip off’ from a special branch officer, to leave London. In 1974, after a judicious period of exile in rural Yorkshire, Stuart and Brenda headed to Orkney, where their daughter, Branwen, was born. Here, with the help of Brenda, Meltzer and others, he set up the ‘Cienfuegos’ Publishing House, where he translated and published a number of elusive Spanish texts. Prisoner solidarity work with the Black Cross would also continue. By the mid-1970s, the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press had taken on a much broader internationalist remit, aiding political prisoners with parcels, letters and donations not only in Spain, but in France, West Germany, Italy, and Northern Ireland. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'Sacco and Venzetti', Flavio Constantini, Cienfuegos Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Mid-1970s Cienfuegos Press Constantini Sacco Vanzetti https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/1357b8ec98bbe98438586ff4c9d21824.pdf bf513df4343eb016b224f69d47b6ec20 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Black Flag Description An account of the resource Black Flag magazine was established in 1970 as the mouthpiece of Anarchist Black Cross. After returning from imprisonment in Spain in 1967, Stuart Christie refounded the Anarchist Black Cross (the ABC) with Albert Meltzer. With its initial premises set up in Coptic Street in London, the ABC provided a support network for Franco’s anarchist prisoners while also operating a ‘Spanish Liberation fund’ to subsidise activist groups throughout the country. Its activity was divided into two tasks; first to provide material support, in the form of ‘food parcels and medical supplies’, and latterly to aid the Spanish Resistance movement with ‘everything it needs, including ‘[print] duplicators, typewriters and guns’. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Special Branch Annual Report (1976) Description An account of the resource 'By comparison, the Anarchist Black Cross remains the most potentially dangerous of all anarchist factions, as it advocates individual acts of violence by its members. Led by Stuart CHRISTIE and Albert MELTZER, the group maintains links with arerchist movements abroad, and regularly publishes its monthly magazine, "Black Flag", which has a circulation of about 1,000 copies, although it boasts a "hard-core" of only 100 members. Outside London, the main area of support lies at Glasgow. Although the group's views do not usually manifest themselves in public protest, they have recently joined the Anarchist Workers Association in proclaiming support for the Murray Defence Group.' p.46. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.ucpi.org.uk/">https://www.ucpi.org.uk/</a> Anarchist Black Cross Angry Brigade Baader-Meinhof Black Flag Direct Action Murray Defence Group Special Branch Undercover police https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/3ee80087abb202d5250374f6b26cb0ab.png c783c6aee98b4dae50b9fb4316710a6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christie-Carballo Defence Committee Meeting, London (1964) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archivo: <a href="https://fal.cnt.es/">Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo</a>, Madrid Anti-Franco Carballo International solidarity London Prisoner defence Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/3158e7b8a8a7ecb8b3af8a0505b4e5ec.jpg f8889e04283f48e9fd90a8ec9f9b7de4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcards from Spain Subject The topic of the resource Spanish anti-Francoist resistance Description An account of the resource A collection of ephemera, pamphlets, photos and personal correspondence on the anarchist and anti-Francoist resistance in Spain. This collection includes letters written by Stuart from the Spanish prison of Alcalá de Henares in 1967 and received by his friend, Ross Flett. Stuart was transferred from Carabanchel prison to Alcalá following an aborted escape plan with his co-conspirator, cellmate and CNT member Luís Andrés Edo. These letters include references to his campaign for release, letter smuggling, the First of May Group and the machine gunning of Grosvenor Square. Persons mentioned: Luís Andrés Edo, Juan Busquets, Alain Pecunia, Groups and publications: Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Freedom, Anarchy, the International Times. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Ross Flett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/04/1967-09/09/1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Scanned document Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clippings of Spanish state documents relating to Stuart's arrest (1964) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964 Anti-Franco Armed struggle Carballo Defensa Interior Direct Action prison Spain https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/0c80e4124320f9e835541ef76787d4c9.pdf 25a50dc818b26dd032ee703cba785303 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Angry Brigade and Persons Unknown Description An account of the resource This collection includes pamphlets, press commentary, and police reports relating to the trials of the 'Angry Brigade' (1972) and 'Persons Unknown' (1978-79). In 1972, eight activists, drawn mainly from the milieu of the libertarian left, appeared at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy. According to the British police authorities, these activists belonged to the so-called 'Angry Brigade', a clandestine, armed terror group responsible for a string of bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972. Stuart stood on trial as one of the eight that were accused because of the number of explosive incidents that were focused on Spanish targets.<br /><br />In 1978, the 'Persons Unknown' case put pressure on Christie yet again, as the Special Branch and the newly formed Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested five anarchists on the charge of 'conspiracy to cause explosions'. The arrests were co-ordinated by Inspector Roy Cremer, one of the lead detectives on the Angry Brigade case. Cremer's attention focused on Ronan Benett, an Irish anarchist, who had recently left Long Kesh prison in the North of Ireland (following a successful appeal for the murder of a Belfast policeman). Arriving in England shortly after his release, Bennett made contact with the Anarchist Black Cross, having become interested in anarchism during his time in prison.<br /><br />The evidence with which the five anarchists were charged was spurious, to say the least. After eighteen months of imprisonment (on remand), the jury decided to acquit all the defendants. For a concise look at the Persons Unknown trial, see <a href="https://christiebooks.co.uk/2015/03/the-persons-unknown-case-order-in-the-court-stuart-christie-city-limits-january-1980/">Stuart Christie's 1980 report in City Limits.</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stoke Newington 8 Defence Group, 'A Political Statement' (1972) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/">The Sparrow's Nest</a> Angela Weir Angry Brigade First of May Group Hilary Creek Jake Prescott Jim Greenfield John Barker Kate MacLean Mutual Aid Prisoner defence Stoke Newington 8 Stuart Christie https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/083b9c18765c37e3c7043bed032734e6.pdf 99a60ad4815a9c41806771a68929af51 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British Anarchism, 1960-1968 Description An account of the resource Ephemera, posters, and periodicals produced by the British anarchist movement in the 1960s. This collection includes copies of <em><a href="https://freedompress.org.uk/">Freedom </a></em>and <em>Anarchy. Both</em> publications were published by Freedom Press, the oldest and largest anarchist publishing house in Britain, with its roots in the continental anarchist emigre networks of the 1880s.<br /><br />During the 1960s, Freedom became a source of intense conflict within the British anarchist movement. Vernon Richards, the owner and editor of the publishing house, was at the centre of the controversy. Following the garroting of <a href="https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vhhp7d">two Spanish anarchists</a> in 1963, <span> Richards wrote a column which argued that Franco's tourist boom was beneficial for Spain's working class. This was completely at odds with the tourism boycott supported by the (largely) exiled <em>Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spain's anarcho-syndicalist trade union</em>. <br /> </span><br />Alongside <em>Freedom</em>, this collection also features copies of <em>Direct Action</em>, the paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (the British contingent of the <em>International Workers' Association</em>). Contrary to the line taken by Richards, the SWF supported the CNT's boycott of Spanish tourism. It was during the peak of the anti-tourism campaign, in the summer of 1964, when Stuart Christie moved to Notting Hill in London, which at the time had become an important local hub for CNT exiles. During his stay in London, the anti-tourism campaign in Britain escalated to include forms of direct action – mostly breaking windows - against Spanish travel agencies. <br /><br />Through the SWF, Stuart was introduced to anarchist brothers Bernardo and Salvador (‘Salva’) Gurucharri. Salvador had participated in various clandestine missions to Francoist Spain and had only recently arrived in London following his release from Fresnes prison in Paris. In 1963, during the founding conference of the Anarchist Federation of Britain, Stuart suggested to Salva that he would like to ‘play a direct part in the resistance movement’ and was told to be ‘ready to travel on twenty-four hours notice’. <p></p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1"><span></span></a></p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anarchy, No.1 (1961) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived With thanks to the <a href="https://network23.org/library/2013/03/05/scanning-anarchy-index/">1in12 Club Library collective</a> and Freedom Press for making these scans available. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 1961 Anarchy Colin Ward Education Freedom Press Theory