Originally posted in the PMQs thread,
I was was mainly thinking about the 1970s. Owen correctly pointed to The Angry Brigade, but compared to the European groups they were a damp squib. Can anyone think of a reason why Britain didn't develop its own similar left-wing terrorist groups?Has anyone done a timeline about or had any thoughts on the UK with left-wing terrorist groups? Now the IRA were vaguely socialist, there were a couple of tiny groups that were outright Marxist, and possibly even a Maoist one, but they were really tied in with the whole Norn Iron situation more than anything else. I'm thinking more along the lines of Action Directe, Baader-Meinhof/Red Army Fraction, Red Brigades etc., outright revolutionary terrorist groups.