Red Brigades

American  

noun

1. an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.

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Red Brigades British  

plural noun

1. a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978

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Etymology

Origin of Red Brigades

Translation of Italian Brigate rosse

Example Sentences

The Red Brigades was a Marxist guerrilla group that kidnapped and killed a number of state officials in the 1970s and '80s, including a former prime minister, Aldo Moro.

From BBC

Later, police found leaflets in a telephone booth which claimed that Mr. Sossi has been abducted by the “Red Brigades,” and was being held in a “people’s jail.”

From New York Times

The bloody deeds included deadly bombings linked to the far-right, and assassinations and kidnapping claimed by the Red Brigades and other left-wing extremists.

From Seattle Times

Some of them were linked with the Red Brigades group, which during the 1970s and 1980s carried out killings kidnappings and “kneecappings,” in which targets were shot in the legs.

From Washington Times

His many films about Italian public figures and institutions — Mussolini; the violent, far-left Red Brigades; the Roman Catholic Church; and the Mafia — are also family stories, attentive to intimate nuances of power and emotion.

From New York Times