Turning money into rebellion : the unlikely story of Denmark’s revolutionary bank robbers : Kuhn, Gabriel, editor

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In May of 1989, on a quiet street in Copenhagen, police discovered an apartment that had served for years as a hideaway for Denmark’s most notorious 20th-century bank robbers. The members, who belonged to a communist organization and lived modest lives in the Danish capital, had, over a period of almost two decades, sent millions in stolen dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements, in particular the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. One of the most puzzling and captivating chapters from the European anti-imperialist milieu of the 1970s and 1980s, Turning Money into Rebellion is the first-ever account of the story in English, covering the events from Middle Eastern capitals and African refugee camps to the group’s fateful last robbery that earned them a record haul and left a police officer dead. The book includes historical documents, illustrations, and an exclusive interview with Torkil Lauesen and Jan Weimann, two of the group’s longest-standing members. It is a compelling tale of turning radical theory into action and concerns analysis and strategy as much as morality and political practice

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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Craftsmen of World Revolution: Klaus Viehmann; Anti-imperialism Undercover: An Introduction to the Blekingegade Group: Gabriel Kuhn; It is All About Politics: Niels Jørgensen, Torkil Lauesen, and Jan Weimann ; Solidarity is Something You Can Hold in Your Hands: Interview with Torkil Lauesen and Jan Weimann; Documents; Socialism and the Bourgeois Way of Life: Gotfred Appel (1966); What is KAK?: KAK (1974); Manifest-Communist Working Group: A Short Introduction: M-KA (1986)

What Can Communists in the Imperialist Countries Do?: M-KA (1983)Appendix; Acronyms of Political Organizations; Timeline; Convicted Blekingegade Group Members; Currency Conversion; Literature

Includes bibliographical references