The Red Brigades was an Italian militant left-wing group in the 1970s for kidnappings, murders, and sabotage. Its self-proclaimed aim was to undermine the Italian state and pave the way for a Marxist "revolutionary proletariat."
The Baader-Meinhof gang or The RAF, Red Army Fraction, was a communist, anti-imperialist, and urban guerrilla active 1970-1988, through several generations and cells, most of them based in Wets Germany.
Chechnya's independence struggle with Russia has been fought with media as well as armored columns and guerrilla rifles. Both sides use technologies old and new to disseminate their messages. The Russian government has a worldwide broadcasting system left over from the Soviet era, but the Chechens have been adept at contacting Western news outlets with their own much more modest shortwave broadcasting facilities. Both points of view are easy to encounter on English-language Web sites.
