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Overview
Formed in 1970, the organization sought to create a “revolutionary” state through armed struggle, and to remove Italy from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Red Brigades attained notoriety in the 1970s and early 1980s with their violent attempts to destabilise Italy by acts of sabotage, bank robberies, kidnappings and murders. Models for the Red Brigades included the Latin American urban guerrilla movements and the World War II Italian partisan movement, which was itself a mostly leftist, anti-fascist revolutionary movement. The group was influenced by volumes on the Tupamaros published by Feltrinelli, “a sort of do-it-yourself manual for the early Red Brigades”, and was influenced by and saw itself as a continuation of the Italian partisan resistance movement of the 1940s, which was interpreted as an example of a youthful anti-fascist minority using violent means for just ends.
Other works by Mosco Boucault
23 Foreigners — Our Brothers
2024
Mafioso: In the Heart of Darkness
2022
Corleone: A History of la Cosa Nostra
2019
Roubaix, Police Department, Ordinary Business
2008
Un corps sans vie de 19 ans
2007
Berlusconi, Affaire Mondadori
2006
A Murder in Abidjan
2000
The Shooting on Mole Street
1998
Ni travail, ni famille, ni patrie
1994
Mémoires d'ex
1991
12 millions de Tokyo
1987
Terrorists in Retirement
1985
