brigate rosse

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brigate rosse - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Brigate Rosse
      n 1: a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of
           a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to
           separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the
           service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive
           since 1989 [syn: Red Brigades, Brigate Rosse, BR]