Turning Money Into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark's Revolutionary Bank Robbers

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Blekingegade is a quiet Copenhagen street where, in 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmark's most notorious bank robbers as a hideaway. The Blekingegade Group were members of a communist organisation who lived modest lives. Over a period of almost two decades they sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements, in particular the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Turning Money into Rebellion covers the group's fascinating journey from the 1960s until seven were jailed in 1991.

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"This book is a fascinating and bracing account of how a group of communists in Denmark sought to aid the peoples of the Third World in their struggles against imperialism and the dire poverty that comes with it. The book contains many valuable lessons as to the practicalities of effective international solidarity, but just as importantly, it is a testament to the intellectual courage of the Blekingegade Group."
--Zak Cope, author of Dimensions of Prejudice: Towards a Political Economy of Bigotry

"The story of how some pro-Palestinian activists become Denmark's most successful bank robbers is more exciting than any thriller."
--sa Linderborg, Aftonbladet

"I am convinced that they never even took a nickel for themselves."
--Jrn Moos, chief investigator in the Blekingegade Case

Author Bio

Gabriel Kuhn is a Stockholm, Sweden-based author and translator. He is the author of All Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919 and Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics.