By the time this appeared in International Times, The Angry Brigade had bombed the Biba boutique in Kensington High Street, west London, on May Day, 1971.

Mercifully no-one was seriously hurt. The stock room was damaged and around 500 people were evacuated from the store.

The savagery of the language underscores the volatility of the period; between 1968 and 1971, 125 political targets were subjected to bombing on the British mainland, the majority of which are still unattributed.

The Angry Brigade were responsible for 25 of these “infernal devices” as well as other violent attacks, 14 of which were accompanied by “communiques”. Unlike this, many were restricted to a brief sentence or two.

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