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1977
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How to Cite

Crenshaw, M., & Robinson, K. (2025). Mapping Militants Project. Rice University. https://doi.org/10.25613/G0K4-WF70
Mapping Militants Project. “Revolutionary Action.” Last modified . https://mappingmilitants.org/node/507/

Profile Contents

Narrative

Narrative of the Organization's History

Organization

Leadership, Name Changes, Size Estimates, Resources, Geographic Locations

Strategy

Ideology, Aims, Political Activities, Targets, and Tactics

Interactions

Foreign Designations and Listings, Community Relations, Relations with Other Groups, State Sponsors and External Influences

Maps

Mapping relationships with other militant groups over time in regional maps

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Overview
Formed: 
January 1, 1977
Disbanded: 
January 1, 1981

Revolutionary Action (AR) was Italy's primary anarchist terrorist group. It was organized loosely into "affinity groups" based on personal ties and ideological sympathy between members. Some of these groups embraced feminist objectives in addition to the group's core anarchist goals. Of the group's few attacks, most targeted Italy's major newspapers, especially the Turin daily "La Stampa," as part of a planned national campaign against the media's purported manipulation of public opinion. Like most of Italy's leftist terrorist groups, AR also targeted the center-right Christian Democrat party. After the group dissolved itself in 1981, some of its members joined Prima Linea.

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