This unique volume explores Europe's most dangerous communist terrorist organizations and reveals how they use violence as a means of political communication and persuasion. It outlines seven terrorist groups from Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy and Turkey and gives their modus operandi, rationale and political messages in translated communiqués never before available in English.
Introduction 1 Contemporary Terrorism: An Overview 2 The Fighting Communist Organizations 3 Red Army Faction 4 Revolutionary Organization 17 November 5 First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups 6 Direct Action 7 Fighting Communist Cells 8 Red Brigades 9 Revolutionary Left