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  • proper noun a former Marxist-Leninist militant group based in Italy

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  • 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

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Examples

  • The Red Brigades were a straight terrorist organization.

    Ian Welsh: Can't You See! Can't You See? 2009

  • Moro was kidnapped for 55 days by the so-called Red Brigades, who were later found to be in the service of Italian fascists, Italian intelligence, the P-2 Masonic Lodge, a parallel SID [Italian Defense Intelligence Service], and the CIA.

    How the NeoCons Cut Their Teeth 2007

  • From the IRA, the Red Brigades in Italy, and Eta in Spain to Shining Path in Peru and the Sword of Islam in the Philippines, terror groups everywhere benefited from his largesse.

    Gaddafi: a vicious, sinister despot driven out on tidal wave of hatred 2011

  • In 1999 and 2002 leftist gunmen associated with the Red Brigades murdered two other reformist labor law professors, Massimo D'Antona and Mario Biagi.

    Notable & Quotable 2012

  • All terrorist movements are different, but just as the IRA and the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof group were defeated by the security services and their own exhaustion so it's possible that, even allowing for the extra complexity and international and religious dimensions of this conflict, something similar may eventually happen to radical Islamist extremism.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • All terrorist movements are different, but just as the IRA and the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof group were defeated by the security services and their own exhaustion so it's possible that, even allowing for the extra complexity and international and religious dimensions of this conflict, something similar may eventually happen to radical Islamist extremism.

    Fighting a Lukewarm War 2010

  • The pattern, which also includes Venezuelan support for the FARC quasi-nation inside Colombia, resembles Libya's rogue behavior of the 1970s that was a Cold War sideshow, with leader Muammar Kaddhafi providing training and support to radical Levantine groups, IRA provisionals and the Red Brigades.

    Eric Ehrmann: Is Hugo Chavez the Kremlin's Useful Idiot? 2010

  • The pattern, which also includes Venezuelan support for the FARC quasi-nation inside Colombia, resembles Libya's rogue behavior of the 1970s that was a Cold War sideshow, with leader Muammar Kaddhafi providing training and support to radical Levantine groups, IRA provisionals and the Red Brigades.

    Is Hugo Chavez the Kremlin's Useful Idiot? 2010

  • In 2002, he resigned as interior minister after describing government welfare consultant Marco Biagi, who was killed by extreme-left militants Red Brigades, as "a pain in the neck."

    Close Berlusconi Ally Resigns 2010

  • All terrorist movements are different, but just as the IRA and the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof group were defeated by the security services and their own exhaustion so it's possible that, even allowing for the extra complexity and international and religious dimensions of this conflict, something similar may eventually happen to radical Islamist extremism.

    Fighting a Lukewarm War 2010

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