HyperDic: red_brigades

English > 1 sense of the expression Red Brigades:
NOUNgroupRed Brigades, Brigate Rosse, BRa Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s
English > Red Brigades: 1 sense > noun 1, group
MeaningA 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.
SynonymsBrigate Rosse, BR
Categoryterrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist actThe calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature
Instance ofterrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTOA political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
RegionItaly, Italian Republic, ItaliaA republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula
SpanishBrigate Rosse
CatalanBrigate Rosse

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