Germans may see the terrorism of the Red Army Faction in the 1970s as a thing of the past (see box). But Italians found this week that the Red Brigades are very much a present threat. On February 12th police arrested 15 people accused of belonging to the Politico-military Communist Party (PCPM), an organisation descended from the Red Brigades, the Italian terrorist group whose members were killing and kidnapping at the same time as the Baader-Meinhof Gang in Germany. The pcpm is a vestige of the so-called Second Position, one of two movements into which the Red Brigades split in 1984.
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