The Angry Generation. Revolutionary Violence and Terrorism in Great Britain at the Beginning of the 1970s

Abstract

Great Britain was struck by protests from the side of leftist students as well as ant-war activists during the 1960s and 1970s. The paper analyzes especially the activity of a radical leftist group at the beginning of the 1970s, the Angry Brigade and its origins in the international Anarchist movement, in the ideas of the Situationist International, and in the milieu of London counter-culture.

The terrorist attacks of the Angry Brigade are thus perceived in the context of contemporary British and European society.

Keywords

• Angry Brigade
• Anarchism
• Situationism
• Counter-culture
• Great Britain
• Anti-war movement