It 's a place apparently peaceful, Canada, the 80s of last century. Perhaps too, In the United States are still running the Black Panthers and California, to the south, is shaken by the bombs of the anti-militarist. It is in this context that the so-called five of Vancouver decided to go underground and accumulate in the "Wimmen's Fire Brigade" (where "wimmen", born from the merger of "man" and "wife" is a kind of neologism to include men and women) in order to shake up Canadian politics. The lesson learned was repressive. On the East Coast of the United States operates the Black Liberation Army, the United Freedom Front and the Armed Resistance Movement, with attacks government buildings and business goals. On the west coast, the symbionese Liberation Army and the New World Liberation Front attack banks, place bombs and kidnap a rich heiress Patricia Hearst. There are also many small autonomous groups, such as Dune Bill and Larry Giddings, two anarchists who are as yet still in prison after being arrested in October 1979, following a shooting that took place on the streets Seattle, when they tried to escape their partner. The best known of these groups was the George Jackson Brigade, made up of anarchists and Marxists, who completed a series of actions, often in support of the prisoners' movement, very strong in those years.
In Canada, three magazines ("Open Road" in Vancouver, "Bulldozer" in Toronto and "Resistance" that began in Toronto and then moved to Vancouver) undertake to cover armed resistance in the United States, and the subsequent repression offering announcements explaining the action, provide support to defense, and gave an outlet to the writings of the combatants who had been captured. The coverage became more important when they were loose organizations that gave support in the United States where most of the movement aimed to distance itself as far as he could. The "5" were the product of the wave of armed struggle in the U.S..
In the spring of 1982, a bomb destroyed almost the entire substation hydraulic Cheekeye-Dunsmuir. Against this project there was strong opposition from local residents. It was believed that industrialization would lead the Vancouver Island and the construction of nuclear power plants to export energy in the United States. One hundred pounds of dynamite put an end to that plan.
The action, which took place in a natural park, far from any town had no resonance and was passed over in silence. The next action would not!
In the late afternoon of October 14, 1982, a truck exploded in front of the field facilities of Litton, in Rexdale, northwest of Toronto. Millions of dollars in damage, seven injured workers, a life-threatening. The statement that follows, after a few days, makes self-criticism for having overestimated the security guards and police.
had to be simple: drive a stolen truck, packed with dynamite through the gates of Litton, to the park in front of the building. Abandon it, and blow it up after 35 minutes. To be sure that the thing was taken seriously, the lorry was left in front of the driver's control of the guards. Only the guards if they do not accorgono.Poi, the call of alarm is not understood. Yet the truck was placed a box, painted with fluorescent orange paint on a sheet of paper giving information and instructions! To underline the seriousness of situation, it was a stick of dynamite was placed on the box. It was another mistake: the guards did not know that the stick was defused and they were kept away. The evacuation began only twenty minutes after the call was received. The bomb exploded earlier than expected, probably activated by radio signals from police cars were arriving in the area.
Errors and searches do not prevent, however, that the November 11, 1982, less than a month after the attack takes place the largest event ever organized against Litton: armed action has the effect of giving greater visibility to growth and other forms of protest, rather than make them less credible.
The Wimmens' Fire Brigade does not stop attacks and, shortly thereafter, three shops in "Red Hot Video" chain, which produced a pornographic videotape. According to the magazine "Open Road", "many of the film not only contained scenes of explicit sex, but women were gagged, bound, beaten, raped and tortured, suffered at the hands of a poorly armed, and other forms of degradation" ;.
E 'the last action, the five will be captured January 20, 1983. Intercepted by the police while on a truck are heading to Vancouver. The process that will follow will conclude with heavy sentences.
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