Blue Monday March 24 1975 Nieuwmarkt Amsterdam Photojournalism Photography

In Amsterdam one could even speak of a 'twenty-year civic war', which lasted from 1965 until 1985. The residents of the Nieuwmarkt city-centre neighbourhood, squatters and anarchist Provos fought side by side for the same standpoints: self-government instead of bureaucracy, liveability rather than economic growth, preservation of existing buildings instead of demolition and new development, and the safeguarding of neighbourhood culture instead of making way for mass consumption. 

In the 1970s many buildings on and around the Nieuwmarkt square were torn down to make way for a planned metro and highway which was to run right through the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood. This led to heavy rioting (the Nieuwmarktrellen ) in 1975 and, ultimately, abandonment of the highway plans. The metro, however, was constructed, and Nieuwmarkt is now a station.

AKTIEGROEP NIEUWMARKT - - Blauwe maandag. Omdat mijn huis daar stond, 24 maart 1975. Een verslag in fotoos van de gebeurtenissen die dag in de Amsterdamse Nieuwmarkt. (Uitgave van de Aktiegroep Nieuwmarkt); Tweede druk. 14x20,5 cm. Papieromslag. 64 pp.; oblong foto-boekje met bijschriften, met ca. 60 foto's door Pieter Broersma, Vincent Mentzel, Roberto-Peeters, Wim Ruigrok, Rob Stolk, Dolf Toussaint, Gerda van der Veen, Hannes Wallrafen en Koen Wessing, met enkele krantenartikelen en tekeningen in reproductie m.b.t. het verloop van de beruchte èn gehate ontruiming van panden in de Nieuwmarkt-buurt.

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