Europe's Red Terrorists: The Fighting Communist Organizations

by Yonah Alexander, Dennis A. Pluchinsky

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 communiques never before available in English.

Genres: History

270 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Lee]

A brief overview of seven armed revolutionary groups who operated in Europe during the end of the last century.Most of the detail comes from communiqués sent by the groups after various actions.One thing that struck me about these writings is how dense and overtly wordy a lot of them were,its pure mental masturbation in a lot of cases.Only the CCC of Belgium seemed to write things of a more interesting and accessible level.
A good primer on the groups but not at the price it is currently on sale for.

[Mirza Sultan-Galiev]

Collection of translated original documents from various Marxist resistance organizations in NATO countries.Of course assembled with the CI hack in mind.
Also the translations are to put it nicely "strange" ("blitzkrieg" is rendered into English as "lightening war" and "metropole" becomes "city" WTF).
However still worth reading if the subject intrigues you, and like myself at the moment your language skills are deficient.