On 1st May 1971, the Angry Brigade placed a bomb in the Biba fashion boutique in London in one of the more imaginative and creative/destructive acts by the revolutionary movement of the 1970s. No-one was ever injured by the Angry Brigade campaign as their attacks targeted property and symbols of oppression.
The attack was claimed in Communique 8, which read:
‘If you’re not busy being born you’re busy buying’.
All the sales girls in the flash boutiques are made to dress the same and have the same make-up, representing the 1940’s. In fashion as in everything else, capitalism can only go backwards — they’ve nowhere to go — they’re dead.
The future is ours.
Life is so boring there is nothing to do except spend all our wages on the latest skirt or shirt. Brothers and Sisters, what are your real desires? Sit in the drugstore, look distant, empty, bored, drinking some tasteless coffee? Or perhaps BLOW IT UP OR BURN IT DOWN. The only thing you can do with modern slave-houses — called boutiques — IS WRECK THEM. You can’t reform profit capitalism and inhumanity.
Just kick it till it breaks.
Revolution.
Communique 8 The Angry Brigade
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