4 25 420 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/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/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 <a href="https://freedompress.org.uk/">Freedom </a>and Anarchy. Both 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. 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, 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 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spain's anarcho-syndicalist trade union. Alongside Freedom, this collection also features copies of Direct Action, the paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (the British contingent of the International Workers' Association). 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. 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’. <a href="#_ftnref1"></a> 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/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 <a href="https://freedompress.org.uk/">Freedom </a>and Anarchy. Both 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. 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, 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 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spain's anarcho-syndicalist trade union. Alongside Freedom, this collection also features copies of Direct Action, the paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (the British contingent of the International Workers' Association). 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. 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’. <a href="#_ftnref1"></a> 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/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. 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 this collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. 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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/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 <a href="https://freedompress.org.uk/">Freedom </a>and Anarchy. Both 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. 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, 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 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spain's anarcho-syndicalist trade union. Alongside Freedom, this collection also features copies of Direct Action, the paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (the British contingent of the International Workers' Association). 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. 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’. <a href="#_ftnref1"></a> 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/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. 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 this collection is the original 'Spies for Peace' mimeograph which was handed out on the 1963 Aldermaston March. 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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/18f929f7708228f58bdd61e4e88fe3ac.jpg 9e2df5b7136d7c56b22be231095fe304 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 and Helios Téllez, son of Antonio Téllez Solá , Paris (1973) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Anti-Franco resistance Antonio Tellez MLE Spanish anarchism 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/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/6dc90749c57e7c3402089375c20dbe63.jpg 5e43e1301503f9ef486fa498462513d4 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/5e0b87fa14acfe541e0beb3b5c97bf43.jpg ec33254a7d1be1b6381b31be0577e26e 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 leaving Clerkenwell Magistrate's Court (1971) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Angry Brigade Brixton Police prison Special Branch Stoke Newington 8 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/06bcbcf2d6cbb808cd9402db4bee743b.jpg 87b7701029d22f3b98926f5ca1f0f252 https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/8a454e3172e3286a480512a8cb4cdb34.jpg a6389325324361a79e877bd13383a905 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, Clerkenwell Magistrate's Court, 1971 Description An account of the resource Picture of Stuart Christie on his way to Brixton prison following the first remand hearing during the trial of the 'Angry Brigade'. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1971 Angry Brigade Brixton prison Stoke Newington 8 Urban guerilla https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/39e099ac67a3d8568c41b9bc6cee4bc8.jpg 70629963acbe3306ec7089cca70a8fb2 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, Tottenham Lane, London (1969) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969 Anarchist Black Cross London Post-prison https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/f28c710a99d72253cff3412f69dd00da.jpg fddf70d60c44428c9f226bb2af99ac65 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, Highgate (1968) Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): 'Note the Bob Fletcher (Esquire) hand made, hi-back button-down, price 29s 6d. These press photos appeared for sale on eBay recently. Thanks to Ally for bringing them to my attention.' 'Our local pub, the Queen’s in Crouch End, Hornsey, had become a focal meeting place for anarchists, libertarians, Trotskyists, and a couple of members of the Young Communist League (YCL) who were no better than they should be. ‘I didn’t know it at the time, but the pub was known to the police as the home of the ‘Hornsey Guerrillas.’ Something strange happened on the Friday night before the demonstration. First, seven or eight uniformed policemen, led by a Sergeant Phillips from Hornsey police station, filed into ‘our snug,’ and called time — 15 minutes before last orders. When we objected and complained to Harry, the landlord, he didn’t try to remonstrate with the police, as you might have expected, and told us to drink up, covering the pumps with a tea-towel as he spoke. There were perhaps about twenty of us in the pub that night and hackles were rising. We didn’t particularly want a rammy starting in our local, and with the ‘big’ demo the next day wiser and more worldly counsels prevailed and we allowed ourselves to be ushered out onto the pavement singing the Internationale. ‘Once outside we realised the whole street was crawling with police, from Tottenham Lane all the way up Crouch End Broadway and past the clock tower, where a large posse of policemen had massed. Beyond the clock tower we could see a convoy of Black Marias and police buses with reinforcements. Trouble was brewing. Our first thoughts were that there had been a right-wing coup and we were headed for internment in the nearby Arsenal football stadium. ‘A small group of us turned right to go towards Fairfield Gardens, but our way was blocked by a line of policemen who started herding everyone up towards the clock tower. As we walked we sang the Internationale, fists clenched in the air. ‘I think it was Jimmy Gilpin who kicked the whole thing off. Jimmy was another young Scots lad recently arrived in London from Dumfries to join the revolution. He had seen the events of May 1968 in Paris on the telly, read the stories of imminent insurrection in the newspapers, and he simply had to be there on the barricades so he gave up his pipefitting apprenticeship and ran off to Crouch End where his brother, Peter, an IS (SWP) activist lived with his wife Sheila up Crouch End Hill in Haslemere Road, next door to Tariq Ali and his partner, Jane. ‘Jimmy was trailing along at the back of the crowd when a police Panda car drew up alongside him. A pasty-faced cop said to him, provocatively, in his best Estuary English ‘Shut the fakk up, you bastard!’ Jimmy ignored him and walked on, still singing. The Panda drew up again and the pasty-faced cop screamed at him ‘I told you to shut up, you bastard.’ Jimmy turned and leaned in the window and said, in as polite a tone as he could muster: ‘We are singing about “uniting the human race,” so that lets you out pal.’ Next thing the cop is out of the car and has Jimmy bent over the bonnet in a headlock. It was the move the police were waiting for; it had been a set-up, a provocation. Police appeared as if out of nowhere — uniformed and plain clothes, dog handlers, cars and Paddy Wagons. When Peter Gilpin and Mike Cohen dragged the policeman off Jimmy, fighting broke out up and down the Broadway. Ray Jones was wrestling with a copper in the middle of the street, Graham Packham, Vaz Clark, Ross Pritchard, Conn, Big Jack Finnegan, Mike Hyme, Ross Flett, Allan Barlow, Phil Carver, Austin Berlin, Sheila Gilpin, Brenda, my girl-friend, and others were trading punches and insults with our attackers. The scene was straight out of Hieronymous Bosch, and the choreography out of West Side Story. ‘Fashion victim that I was at the time, I was wearing my brand-new bespoke dark blue mohair suit. With my short hair and clean-shaven Man at C&A look, I was often taken for an off-duty policeman or CID officer. Taking advantage of this I dodged around in the melee doing what I could, taking the numbers of the policemen as they tried to bundle people into the waiting Black Marias. As fast as people were pushed into the police vans, we pulled them out again. I asked one policeman who was trying to handcuff Jimmy to release him, saying he was ‘one of ours.’ The copper immediately released him, no doubt thinking that one CID officer was asking for the release of an undercover agent. I think they arrested Jimmy three times that night. On the last occasion he tried to climb into the Paddy Wagon, but was booted out by a copper who told him they were full up — and they had got what they had come for. It obviously wasn’t Jimmy Gilpin. ‘Jimmy then swung a punch at the policeman who lunged back, and then Mike Cohen stepped in took the policeman’s truncheon from him and cracked his collar bone with it. Mike got away, but Jimmy was grabbed, handcuffed and frog-marched to Hornsey Police Station ‘Suddenly I was rumbled. Sergeant Phillips, who was in charge of the operation, shouted to a dog-handler, a vicious-looking retard with an Alsatian dog to grab me. I suddenly found myself grabbed by my tie by the dog handler who started to strangle me with it. He also ripped the front of my best and irreplaceable Bob Fletcher handmade shirt. I really should have learned never to fight for freedom and justice in your best clothes. Unfortunately, I hadn’t realised freedom and justice were on the agenda that night. With one mighty leap I broke free and ran off into the night. The policeman fell to the pavement in surprise, releasing his dog, which took off after me like a bat out of Hell. ‘I ran into the alley behind the chip shop where I stopped and turned, hoping to pacify the dog with my winning ways, soft words and the divine intervention of St Francis of Assisi. The dog stopped, looked at me, bared its teeth, advanced slowly, growling then launched itself at my privates. I managed to turn and deflect the animal’s bite, so that instead of my bollocks, it sank its teeth into my knee, ripping my brand-new trousers badly. At this point anger and self-interest overcame my natural love of animals and, with no other weapons available, I pulled out a biro and thrust it up the Alsatian’s nose. The dog pulled back, howled, turned and ran off in search of its master. ‘I took myself off through the back streets of Hornsey and took a mini-cab to Charing Cross Hospital, worried about rabies.' From ‘Edward Heath Made Me Angry’, pp 68-69 (1968) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown 1968 Hornsey Special Branch Student protest 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/cbaf42f735744b595af65f454baea5a3.jpg 6060f067f16ab8f4bd86522451203a79 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 and friend Archie McNulty, Glasgow, 1962 Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): '‘The past is a foreign country: they did things differently there": The Barrowland Ballroom, Gallowgate, Glasgow, c.1961-’62. My old mate from our teenage years in Blantyre, Archie McNulty (the suave good-looking guy on the left), has sent me this yellowing, crazed, photo from another time. Fair took me back it did! For interested fashionista historians, the bespoke suit (Lovat Green if I remember correctly) with the bumfreezer jacket was from the Blantyre Co-op (Menswear Dept.); buttondown, high-collar, shirt (29s 6d) by Bob Fletcher (Esquire), Cambridge Street, Glasgow; tie (Woolworths & Co., Hamilton); shoes (A.L. Scott’s, Byres Road, Hillhead); hair (Fuscos, Cambridge Street, Glasgow). By the way, that’s a waistcoat under my jacket, definitely not a pullover!..' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Blantyre Glasgow https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/d76749fa966d542a6f688ce6a15ec88e.jpg 98f9ca0d7650f780e66eba1a4865c01f 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 Graham Rua, Phil Ruff, and Stuart Christie, Yorkshire (1975) Description An account of the resource Graham Rua was Iris Mills' husband. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975 Anarchist Black Cross Black Flag Phil Ruff https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/bf8d0499c1a5d9d76c1b4fad90ccce88.jpg d79e6c71df17954fbd7063cf46cb2b10 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 and Iris Mills, Yorkshire (1975) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Phil Ruff Anarchist Black Cross Black Flag Exile Iris Mills Phil Ruff https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/664fe42834ef42f78a68ca416925ecd3.jpg e8cc2eeaf878696fd2434af1870c0440 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 and Jean Weir, Highgate Cemetry, 1970 Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): 'Highgate Cemetery (Eastern Cemetery), 1970: Ariane Gransac, Jean Weir and ‘Claude’ on a visit to one of eternity’s celebrity left luggage lockers'. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970 1970s Anarchist Black Cross Ariane Gransac Jean Weir Marx https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/7790d70c73a2b4ececad60978d69df2c.jpg 3dba90761855f11e2ec60f7a53f41a98 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, Paris (mid-1970s) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Anti-Franco Ariane Gransac Defensa Interior Exile FIJL Juventudes Libertarias MLE Octavio Alberola Transition https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/dd25e2259efeb0d19989dc39e17b7189.jpg 99b4178fc33d60ca7def8c55dee07e63 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, La rue Léon-Jouhaux, Paris (1979) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979 Ariane Gransac Defensa Interior FIJL First of May Group Juventudes Libertarias Paris https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/e6fa68080c66d889223bcd753d6c284f.jpg b8f06c708fe684d69fdf7323f17173bb 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 Stuart Christie, Venice, 1984 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 1984 Defensa Interior FIJL First of May Group internationalism Octavio Alberola Post-Franco https://stuartchristie.maydayrooms.org/files/original/3c0740d474038685d6b87ad47317d5a2.jpg 5f61c0bdd40211f3b6d9e66c4981d5f2 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 Surinach, Ariane Gransac, Franco Leggio, etc., Campo Santa Margherita, Venice, September 1984 Description An account of the resource Stuart Christie (2011): 'IN 1962 Octavio was invited by the Defence Commission of the MLE (Spanish Libertarian Movement — the CNT-FAI-FIJL-Mujeres Libres) to come to Europe to become full-time ‘coordinator’ of ‘Defensa Interior’ (Interior Defence), the recently established clandestine planning organisation responsible for anti-Francoist actions inside and outside Spain (intended to radicalise the anti-Francoist opposition and to demonstrate to the world that resistance to the Franco regime still existed) — and for the attempts on the life of General Franco (with the objective of bringing about immediate political change in Spain). DEFENSA INTERIOR ceased to exist as an official body of the Spanish Libertarian Movement (MLE) in October 1963. The disbandment followed the garroting in Madrid (August 1963) of two young anarchists Francisco Granado and Joaquin Delgado, and an order by the French Ministry of the Interior published in the Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise of 20 October 1963 — a month after the arrest of 21 FIJL activists in France, which made the FIJL an illegal organisation throughout French territory. The outlawing of the FIJL had been a quid pro quo between the Gaullist and Francoist security services: in return for French government action against the Spanish anarchist activists in France, Spain cracked down on ‘pied-noir’ OAS Commando Delta operations to assassinate De Gaulle, which were planned and run from Madrid and Valencia (Petit-Clamart and Georges Watin’s plan to shoot De Gaulle at the Ecole Militaire) The DI’s activists, however, were not so ready to abandon the struggle against the Franco regime and it was at this point that the First of May Group emerged as an independent international anarchist action grouping to carry out out a number of spectacular coordinated direct actions on a Europe-wide scale. It later played an important part in the activist movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. On May 1 1965, five days after the kidnapping of a Francoist diplomat in London on 25 April, Octavio’s father, José Alberola, was found dead in his apartment in Mexico City. He had been tortured and murdered by proxy killers of the ‘Brigada Blanca’, (four of whom were seen leaving the flat), a Mexican police death squad working on behalf of Franco’s Gestapo-trained secret police, the Brigada Politico Social (BPS). Also in the photograph is Ariane Gransac Sadori, Octavio’s partner and co-author of their book ‘Spanish Anarchism and Revolutionary Action in Spain, 1961-1974’ (Ruedo Ibérico publishers, Paris), ‘Moni’ Tellez (partner of anarchist historian Antonio Tellez), and the Sicilian anarchist publisher, activist — and ‘First of May Group’ member — the late Franco Leggio.' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stuart Christie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Antonio Tellez Defensa Interior FIJL First of May Group Juventudes Libertarias Octavio Alberola Post-Franco Ruedo Ibérico 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/62e6e51d63b8c4a5a80f997ffd2b4620.jpg 44ffc10b314d15a79d9fe82b78a00e7c 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 with Jean-pierre Duteuil at the International Anarchist Congress, Carrara (1968) Description An account of the resource Jean-pierre Duteuil was one of the founding participants in the Mouvement du 22-Mars. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Carrara French anarchism French May internationalism Italy