When they finally went back to dig up the arms stash, they found the town planners had buggered up the struggle by building a tower block. The variety of jobs Albert had, matched his appetite for life. Albert was never confused about class, and he never let himself be 'bought off'. He knew that there was no glamour in poverty, and that taking the bosses' money while refusing to kiss his arse was a stronger statement than staying poor. It's what you know, who you identify with.
People mistake affluence for class.
In the '50s the British anarchist movement was torn apart by conflict and feuding. According to Albert, liberials were trying to make anarchism serve their own ends, while he maintained that anarchism had to remain a revolutionary working class movement. In the '60s Albert finally broke with the moderates associated with Freedom Press, whom he called academics, mandarins, liberials and 'non-violent' fascists. In 1967 he got together with Stuart Christie, who'd just got out of Spanish prison for running arms to Spain. Together they started the Anarchist Black Cross - since then the Black Cross has supported jailed anarchists and political prisoners all over the world.