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Reputed founder of the Red Brigades was Renato Curcio , left-wing student at the University of Trento . In the beginning the Red Brigades were active mainly in Milan and Turin where they claimed to support labor unions against the far right. Members - mainly workers and students - sabotaged factory equipment and broke into factory offices and trade union headquarters. In 1972 they made their first kidnapping, a factory foreman who was held for some time but later released.
After 1974 Red Brigades expanded into Rome, Genoa and Venice and begun to kidnap prominent figures. Its manifesto in 1975 claimed that its goal was a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State, because the state is as an imperialist collection of multinational corporations". It switched its attacks to police and security forces and especially the Italian ruling party, Democrazia Cristiana. In June 1974 Red Brigades made their first lethal attack, against two members of an Italian neo-fascist party, Movimento Sociale Italiano. It practically abandoned its political activities among the workers.
In 1976 Italian police arrested number of its members and killed one. Next year in April Red Brigades announces that it had set up a Communist Combatant Party to "guide the working class". Terrorist activities, especially against carabinieri and magistrates, increased considerably to pressure juries to dismiss cases against the imprisoned leaders of the organization. Membership switched from workers to the dominance of students. 1978 the Brigades kidnapped and murdered former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, because he had created a compromise between Italian Communist Party and Democrazia Cristiana.
The murder of Moro began an all-out assault against the Brigades by the Italian law enforcement and security forces. The murder of a popular political figure also drew condemnation from the Italian left-wing radicals and even the imprisoned ex-leaders of the Brigades. Brigades lost most of their social support and the public opinion turned strongly against them. Italian police made a large amount of arrests in 1980.
In 1981 Red Brigades kidnapped US Army Brigadier General James Dozier, who was later rescued by police operation. Italian police arrested number of members, many of who informed on the other members, which led to further arrests.
In 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe Red Brigades had split into two factions: the majority faction of the Communist Combatant Party (BR-PCC) and the minority of the Union of Combatant Communists (BR-UCC). At the same year, four imprisoned leaders, Curcio, Moretti, Ianelli and Bertolucci, rejected the armed struggle as pointless.
Also in 1984, Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder of Leamon Hunt , USThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in chief of the Sinai Multinational Force and Observer Group.
In 1985 some Italian terrorists who had lived in France, returned to Italy. At the same time, arrests increased. In February 1986, the BR-PCC killed the ex-mayor of Florence, and tried to kill Prime Minister's advisor Bettino CraxiBettino Craxi ( February 24, 1934 January 19 2000), born "Benedetto Craxi" was an Italian politician from Milan. The diminutive of Benedetto used to be Benito until Benito Mussolini made it unconvenient to use that form. Political ascension Craxi was the. In March 1987, BR-UCC killed General Licio Giorgieri in Rome. On April 16 1988 BR-PCC killed Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli. After that the group activities all but ended after massive arrests of its leadership.
The latest known actions of the Brigades (as of February 2004) are the 1999 murder of Massimo D'Antona, an advisor to the cabinet of near-left Prime Minister Massimo D'AlemaMassimo D'Alema (born April 20, 1949) , the son of Giuseppe D'Alema (an esteemed communist politician), is an Italian journalist and politician, a former prime minister and a former national secretary of the PDS, Partito Democratico della Sinistra. A prof. In March 20March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). There are 286 days remaining. Events 1413 Henry V becomes King of England. 1602 The Dutch East India Company is established. 1739 Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and s, 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom the same gun that was used to kill D'Antona was used to kill professor Marco Biagi, an economic advisor to right-wing Italian president Silvio Berlusconi and a key figure in the neo-liberalization of Italian labour policies. The Brigades again claimed responsibility. In October 23 2003, Italian police arrested six members of Red Brigades in early-dawn raids in Florence, Sardinia, Rome and Pisa in connection with the murder of Massimo D'Antona.