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Just watching one of the more obscure news channels at the moment and they've had a report about troubles in Colombia involving Farc - I'm always fascinated by the revolutionary/terrorist/freedom fighter groups around the world that we rarely hear about in the UK.
Which international hot spots or revolutionary groups pique your interest?
I have a soft spot for the Shining Path - I'm sure they have done awful/terrible things, but a much more inspired name than, say the IRA (who have also done awful/terrible things).
Wheels.
Singlespeed Chainrings.
Asian Dawn. I read about them in Time magazine
I always had a soft spot for the the Sons of Glendower. In a comedy way. Just because they were so completely hopeless.
But they did spawn the classic Not the Nine O Clock news sketch "Come home to a real fire, buy a cottage in Wales" 😀
I also loved the outcry about Jamie Oliver when he was criticised for wearing a Tamil Tigers T shirt. He said he thought they were an American Football team. Genius! 😆
Popular Front of Judea.
Just because the balaclava and pipe combo is so difficult to pull off:
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[i]Popular Front of Judea.[/i]
Splitters!
Asian Dawn. I read about them in Time magazine
dammit i'm 16 minutes too late! well done sir, you've brightened my day and chosen what film i shall watch tonight at the same time.
ETA..
(Though this thread will end up in the bin)
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Khmer rouge FTW
Met some Zapatistas back in 2004, when we visited Oventik, a Zapatista HQ outside San Cristobal. Pretty cool. And again in 2005 (bus from Laguna Miramar/Emiliano Zapata back to Ocosingo went straight through their territory).
But my favourite revolutionary group is undoubtedly the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
There are some crazily named Greek anarchist groups from the 70s and 80s, too.
Elfinsafety - MemberPopular Front of Judea
I picture you as more Tooting Popular Front.
West Papua and Bougainville freedom armies.
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Sons of Glendower
Were they the evil desperados who fought back the English invasion by stealing the powered tin opener from our caving club cottage and other similarly daring raids?
I walked into [s]a fashionable shoe shop[/s] the Birkenstock store in London with my wife and kids a year or so back, to be served by a guy wearing a Baader-Meinhof/Red Army Faction t-shirt.
Rightly or wrongly I spat the dummy at him in a crowded shop. He just mouthed a few words, in a germanic accent, smiled and turned away.
Wife was mortified, didn't buy any shoes, didn't speak much for the rest of the day.
Pink Floyd were pretty revolutionary. Groundbreaking if you would.
I also loved the outcry about Jamie Oliver when he was criticised for wearing a Tamil Tigers T shirt. He said he thought they were an American Football team. Genius!
Many years ago, I was going through Boston Logan airport, wearing an old bike race t-shirt with the sponsor on the front, and I got a lot of attention from the security staff. It took a while to convince them that Scottish Power wasn't like Black Power 🙂
Spiral Tribe and Circus Warp for me.. 😀
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Scottish National Party.
Being successful by being quietly revolting. 🙂
the CNLA
Liverpool Militant, Derek Hatton et al No really...
Definitely the Situationists.
[url= http://www.stathatos.net/pages/little_spartan_wars.html ]The St. Just vigilantes[/url]
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Bring back Occitan! 😀
And proper pastis! 😀 😀
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The Taffia
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec ]The FLQ.[/url]
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The FLQ
I was almost convinced until I read about their publication [i]"Revolutionary Strategy and the Role of the Avant-Garde"[/i] - sorry, but that just suggests they're a bunch of art students!
They may be the only revolutionary group eligible for the Turner Prize.
Keighley Skins Rule (Circa 1970)
[url= http://crimethinc.com/ ]Crimethinc collectives[/url] are pretty rockin!!!
If you wanna talk about counter revolutionary revolutionary groups then these take biscuit - The National Bolsheviks or as they sometimes like to call themselves - National Anarchists. They be pretty crazy and laughable but then again this is Russia and its a freaky crazy kgb/mafia country.
They seem to think they are an artistic girl lovin revolutionary direct action movement saving mother russia but they are just nazis trying to do the hitler thing of replicating leftist/autonomist tendencies. Detour - detournement manifestation or just a bunch of bitter goths?
[url= http://nazbol.info/ ]NAZBOL[/url]
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ditch_jockey - MemberThe FLQ
I was almost convinced until I read about their publication "Revolutionary Strategy and the Role of the Avant-Garde" - sorry, but that just suggests they're a bunch of art students!
They may be the only revolutionary group eligible for the Turner Prize.
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You have just summed up Quebec in one post. That's precisely why I love it!
They may be the only revolutionary group eligible for the Turner Prize.
Kind of need to be British for that. The leader of the st just vigilantes was short listed for the turner prize in 1985 though funnily enough
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Luther Blisset
I know most on here are pretty left-leaning, but anyone who thinks for one second that the likes of Sendoro Luminoso or the Khmer Rouge have a touch of romanticism about them should be taken for a tour of Pol Pot's killing fields for a little [i]re-education[/i]
The Shining Path believed that by imposing a dictatorship of the proletariat, inducing cultural revolution, and eventually sparking world revolution, they could arrive at pure communism. The Shining Path said that existing socialist countries were revisionist, and that it was the vanguard of the world communist movement. The Shining Path's ideology and tactics have been influential on other Maoist insurgent groups, notably the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and other Revolutionary Internationalist Movement-affiliated organizations.[2]
Widely condemned for its brutality,[3][4] including [b]violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, popularly elected officials and the general civilian population[/b],[5] the Shining Path is described by the Peruvian government as a terrorist organization. The group is on the U.S. Department of State's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations,[6] and the European Union[7] and Canada[8] likewise describe it as a terrorist organization and prohibit providing funding or other financial support.
Power to the people indeed, so long as the power lies in the hands of those who have the Kalashnikovs, and have a nation of slaves to do their bidding.
Nothing amusing or romantic about these murdering scumbags as far as I can see.
Count zero plus one, what happened in Cambodia was sickening.
Can't see how blowing up people shopping, or pulling them off the street to kill maime them can ever be romantic. With the exception of a few python jokes this thread is full of f&&king misplaced ideas chaps.
The Grey Panthers
PLO.
+1 for the Wontoks but my vote goes for the OPM.
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Irian Jaya, my @rs e
ratswithwings you bus kanaka tru?
judea peoples front, just dont mention the romans, i mean what have they done for us
Am I taking this a bit seriously ?