The Trial of the Angry Brigade

It's not publicly known how many attacks they made - for a while their activities were concealed. Research implies that there were about 200. It was the Brigade's own ideology rather than the police that stopped them. They took direct action because - in their view - the old left had failed to bring change. But this view was transformed when the 1974 strikes brought down Heath's government. In light of what happened under Thatcher, they were mistaken. But one thing's for certain though, their analysis of the growing damage consumerism was doing - would continue to do - to society and the planet was spot on.