Drawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a. Advocating revolution through terrorism, they set up their own group, declaring war on the state in september 1969. The red army and the second world war by alexander hill. Nihon sekigun, jra was a communist militant group founded by fusako shigenobu early in 1971 in lebanon. Despite this title, the group became almost instantly known as the baadermeinhof gang. The group undertook a violent terrorist campaign in the hopes of sparking a broader revolutionary movement. Shigenobu had been a leading member in the red army faction sekigunha in japan, whose roots lay in the militant new left communist league.
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