Foreward by Stuart Christie

Introduction by Phil Ruff

Chapter I

The Box Scandal; Gypsies and Germans; The Film Scandal; The Road to Salvation: In the Van; Lost Millions; Paradise Lost and Regained

Chapter II

The Coasts of Bohemia; Fighting Fascism; The Battle of Cable Street; Schoolboy Anarchist; Castles in Spain; Frustration on Spain

Chapter III

Off to Work; The Guy They All Dread; Early Days; Ebbtide; Attempts on Dictators; Around the Left

Chapter IV

War Clouds; The Taste of Defeat; War at Last; Internment and Discernment; Splitting the Atom; Blackpool Breezes; Prison; Division; Military Detention

Chapter V

On 'Active' Service; the Marquis and the Maquis; the Cairo Mutiny; Bounty on the Mutiny

Chapter VI

Back in the Old Routine; The Spanish Resistance; The 374 Monster; Ruling the Waves; Three Minute Celebrity

Chapter VII

Bookselling; The Thetford Pain; Bookselling, the Lack of; Tales of the Housing Acts; The New Left; Squatting; International Spy

Chapter VIII

Plumbing the Depths; Keeping Watch; -- And Ward; The Law-and-Order Candidate; Poetry to Pros

Chapter IX

The Iberian Liberation Council; How the Thames Was Lost

Chapter X

The Spy, the Royalist and a Last Farewell; The Freedom of the Press; Admonition; Old Flame and New Floods

Chapter XI

Half-time summing-up

Chapter XII

Closer Links with Spain; Customs and Practice; Error and Terror; Satire; The Wooden Shoe; The Carrara Conference; The Vietnam Connection

Photos

Chapter XIII

The Shadow of the Tong; The Anarchist Black Cross; Miguel Garcia; Start of "Black Flag"; Towards the Centre; Rise of the Print Empire; Anarchist in Fleet Street; 1986 Again; Doctor's Dilemma

Chapter XIV

The Spanish War (Continued!); Centro Iberico; Greek Tragedy; Haverstock Hill; The Invisible Woman; This Gun for Sale; Only Too Visible Women; Channel Swimmer in Beads; Emilienne

Chapter XV

Floodgates; The First Twenty Black Flag Years; Novel Approach; Terrorist Links; The Magic Coat

Chapter XVI

Barrack Room Lawyer Again; Twilight of Francosim; The Angry Brigade; Bitov What You Fancy; The Brief Morning of Anarchy; Trials and Tribulations

Chapter XVII

Auto Destruction; At the Old Bailey; Witness of the Persecution; Fun and Games at the Gulag; The Most Distressful Country; After the Storm; Irish Association; The Murrays

Chapter XVIII

The CNT between Death and Birth; The Re-Birth of the CNT; The Phoney CNT; The Orkneys; Cienfuegos Press; The Wooden Horse

Chapter XIX

The Execution of Puig Antich; the 'Newer Angry Brigades': The Bookie Always Wins; Affinity Groups; Persons Unknown; The Protest Movement

Chapter XX

After the Christie File; Refract; "The Kid's Last Fight"; Kate Sharpley

Chapter XXI

By the Waters of Babylon; The Battle of Railton Road; International Centres

Chapter XXII

Communism and Pandora's Box; A Rebel Spirit; 1984 and All That

Chapter XXIII

The State's Internal Enemy; Death Pangs of Fleet Street; Spanish Practices; The Battle of Wapping; The Emperor's Courtiers

Chapter XXIV

The New Left; "Anarchy'; Lost Weekend; Venice Observed

Chapter XXV

Lucky Strike; Direct Action Years; Poll Tax; The Battle of Trafalgar Square; Class War; Leo

Chapter XXVI

Higher Intelligence; Velikovsky; Wonderful Copenhagen; Jim Abra; Counter intelligence; The Informer Who Changed History

Chapter XXVII

Two Fascisms; Anti-Fascist Fascism; The irascibles; the End of Fleet Street; Retirement; Down Under

Chapter XXVIII

My Discovery of Sweden; The Schism; 'Nordic Anarchism': Weekend in Macedonia

Chapter XXIX

Looking Back; State Over Health; The Slump (Second Act); Act in the Court; Police in the State; Looking Forward

Chapter XXX

The Final Curtain

Appendix I

Appendix II

Marked up by Chuck0 in 1996

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