March 28 Brigade

March 28 Brigade was a Milan-based left-wing terrorist group. It formed in 1979 as Red Guerrilla but changed its name to March 28 Brigade in response to the death of four Red Brigades militants in a firefight with Italian military police on March 28, 1980. The new group comprised former members of other left-wing groups, principally Communist Combat Formations (FCC), Communist Combat Units (UCC), and Communist Brigades (BC). March 28 Brigade militants sought to overthrow the Italian state and replace it with a dictatorship of the proletariat, and to that end hoped to gain credibility for their movement through attacks with the goal of establishing ties to the Red Brigades. It is unclear whether it succeeded; all of its members had been arrested by the end of 1980.