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Red Brigades

Extreme left-wing guerrilla groups active in Italy during the 1970s and early 1980s. They were implicated in many kidnappings and killings, some later attributed to right-wing agents provocateurs, including that of Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro in 1978.



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Burleigh distinguishes only in passing between terrorism used as a tool in wars of national liberation--for example, the FLN in Algeria--and the futile campaigns of robbery, kidnapping, and murder of the Italian Red Brigades and the German Red Army Faction or the pointless atrocities of al-Qaeda jihadis in New York and London.
This demonstration was attended by members of the Communist Party, anarchists, and the CARC (Committee for the Support to the Communist Resistance), which supports the Italian Red Brigades.
Marina Petrella, a 54-year-old mother-of-two and a former senior member of the Italian Red Brigades, is currently languishing in prison in France.
 
 
 
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