Definition of Red brigades
1. Noun. A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989.
Category relationships: Act Of Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorist Act
Generic synonyms: Foreign Terrorist Organization, Fto, Terrorist Group, Terrorist Organization
Geographical relationships: Italia, Italian Republic, Italy
Definition of Red brigades
1. Proper noun. a former Marxist-Leninist militant group based in Italy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Red brigades
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1. Terrorist Group Profiles (1993)
"red brigades (BR) Date Formed 1970. Estimated Membership Approximately 50-75 ...
Background The red brigades has been one of the most lethal of the major ..."
2. Dealignment: A New Foreign Policy Perspective by Mary Kaldor, Richard A. Falk, Gerard Holden (1987)
"The red brigades were undoubtedly responsible for kidnapping and eventually
murdering Moro, but the ease with which they carried out the kidnapping and the ..."
3. Patterns of Global Terrorism 1993 by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Italy Italian leftists claiming ties to the "red brigades for the Construction
of the Combatant Communist Party" appeared to be attempting to revive the Red ..."
4. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (1992)
"Others, with broader goals, such as the red brigades of Italy, are still operational,
though weakened. The following is a selection of terrorist ..."
5. Whither Human Rights in Russia: Hearing Before the Commission on Security edited by Christopher H. Smith (1999)
"Translated by: Nickolai Butkevich January 2, 1999 "red brigades Don't Exist" by
Margarita Sova December 14, 1998 At his press conference on December 8th, ..."
6. Defense Policy in the Reagan Administration edited by William P. Snyder, James Brown (1997)
"... General James L. Dozier by Italian red brigades terrorists is an example of
... Dozier's release but wrought considerable damage on the red brigades and ..."
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