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  Anarchist terrorism - Definition, explanation
The heyday of anarchist terrorism was from the 1870s to the 1920s.
Today, some anarchists are found participating with the more "violent" elements of demonstrations, such as the anti-capitalist protests in the 1990s and 2000s (see: WTO Meeting of 1999).
There are significant sections of the anarchist movement that do not support these actions, including many organizations and individuals that advocate pacifism or others who simply question the effectiveness of property destruction as a tool of change.
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  Definition of terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At its core, the definition of terrorism is not so much a description of a particular kind of violence, like bombing or assassination, but a way to characterize an act of violence relative to the speaker, and their point of view.
"Terrorism," thus is a term that attempts to define, as a separate phenomenon, a philosophy of coordinated violence which tends to have a high degree of social impact on the target society.
The "terror" or pronounced state of fear that is manifest as a result of an act of terrorism is limited in terms of its immediate threat, but causes enough of a general disturbance to threaten this existing social order.
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 Anarchism - Wikipedia
Similarly, anarchistic tendencies can be traced to the philosophers of Ancient Greece, such as Zeno, the founder of the Stoic philosophy, and Aristippus, who said that the wise should not give up their liberty to the state [2].
Anarchists argue that pursuit of these ends does not justify the establishment of a state, and in fact many argue that the state is incompatible with those goals.
Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement (pdf) is an article from a law enforcement perspective that includes a look at tactics, philosophy and a history of the Anarchist movement in the United States.
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 Anarchist terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The heyday of Anarchist terrorism was from the 1870s to the 1920s.
Today, some Anarchists are found participating with the more "violent" elements of demonstrations, such as the anti-capitalist protests in the 1990s and 2000s (see: WTO Meeting of 1999).
There are significant sections of the Anarchist movement that do not support these actions, including many organizations and individuals that advocate pacifism or others who simply question the effectiveness of property destruction as a tool of change.
www.encyclopedia-1.com /a/an/anarchist_terrorism.html   (253 words)

  
 Terrorism
Terrorism (from french (XVIIIe century) : terrorisme under the Terror) refers to the systemic or calculated use of violence or the threat of violence, against the civilian population, to instil fear in an audience for purposes of obtaining political or religious goals.
Anarchists believe that all states are founded on violence and therefore the term 'terrorist state' is redundant.
Anarchist terrorism was much more prevalent from the 1870s into the 1920s than it is at present.
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 Anarchist Pamphlet Against War and Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This pamphlet was written by anarchists from four continents.
Terror has a long history in the service of counter-revolution, and will always work towards undermining the very foundations of a new, free, postcapitalist, society, or even one where forces of death, oppression and exploitation are significantly weakened
A successful anarchist revolution then, would result in society being organised by the free association and federation of workers (and peasants, in some countries), with decisions made directly by the people affected by them.
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 Statewatch News online: "Terrorism" extended to "anarchist groups"
After the G8 summit in Genoa, anarchists were blamed by Italian authorities for violent clashes between police and protestors, and a backlash followed against the anarchist movement which led to nation-wide raids involving detentions, searches and a number of persons being placed under investigation.
There is an extensive history in Italy of anarchists or "left-wingers" appearing as suspects in the early stages of investigations, being arrested and later being shown to be innocent.
Giannasi allegedly told SISMI that attacks by anarchists were imminent between June and September 1998 and blamed the attack on the Guardia di Finanza office on Milan anarchists.
www.statewatch.org /news/2002/feb/10anarch.htm   (2329 words)

  
 You Can't Blow up a Social Relationship : The Anarchist case against Terrorism. - Anarres Books Essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
However, when left-wing terrorism is being carried out in a consistent way in society, it gives the state extra leverage in using political repression against individuals and the left in general.
Around the world the word "terrorism" is used indiscriminately by politicians and police with the intention of arousing hostility to any phenomenon of resistance or preparedness for armed defence against their own terroristic acts.
Terrorism is distinguished by the systematic use of violence against people for political ends.
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 Postmodern Terrorism
Terrorism has been defined as the substate application of violence or threatened violence intended to sow panic in a society, to weaken or even overthrow the incumbents, and to bring about political change.
Furthermore, the dividing line between urban terrorism and other tactics has become less distinct, while the line between politically motivated terrorism and the operation of national and international crime syndicates is often impossible for outsiders to discern in the former Soviet Union, Latin America, and other parts of the world.
The practitioners of terrorism as we have known it to this point were nationalists and anarchists, extremists of the left and the right.
www.fas.org /irp/news/1996/pomo-terror.htm   (4170 words)

  
 Anarchist outrages
On 24 June 1894 an Italian anarchist, Sante Jeronimo Caserio, assassinated the French president, Marie-François Sadi Carnot, the culmination of a series of anarchist attacks in France and elsewhere.
The president, William McKinley, was assassinated by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, in September 1901 during a period of social unrest.
Terrorism did not weaken the state but it did strengthen the powers of the police, the army and the government.
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 Terrorism Essay
Many early examples of terrorism are of religious roots, such as in the first century Middle East during the Roman occupation when the Jewish groups the Sicari and the Zealots killed in front of witnesses in order to send a message to the Roman authorities and those Jews who treasonably cooperated with them.
Hoffman defines this type of terrorism as “a cost-effective way of waging war covertly, through the use of surrogate warriors or ‘guns for hire.’” Left-wing terrorism occurs when the terrorists see capitalist exploitation causing civilian suffering and wish to replace this harmful capitalism with a socialist or communist regime.
If jealousy were the reason behind terrorism, then domestic terrorism such as the Oklahoma City Bombing, the suspected pipebombing during the Atlanta Olympics, and the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway would never have occurred.
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 You Can't Blow up a Social Relationship: The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Around the world the word "terrorism" is used indiscriminately by politicians and police with the intention of arousing hostility to any phenomenon of resistance or preparedness for armed defense against their own terrorist acts.
Anarchists from the Frei Arbeiterinnen Union-IAA (the German Anarcho-Syndicalist labor federation) attribute this to the refusal of allied occupation troops, in all four zones of occupation, to de-Nazify the German government after World War II].
Proponents of terrorism and guerillaism are to be opposed because their actions are vanguardist and authoritarian, because their ideas are wrong and unrelated to the results of their actions, because killing cannot be justified, and finally because their actions produce either repression with nothing in return or an authoritarian regime.
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 Nationalist terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nationalist terrorism is a form of terrorism through which participants attempt to form an independent state against what they consider an occupying, imperial, or otherwise illegitimate state.
As with the definition of terrorism, the characterization of "nationalist terrorism" is highly contentious.
Some nationalist groups' activities are viewed by others as Left-wing terrorism or Religious terrorism, or can be included in both categories.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nationalist_terrorism   (542 words)

  
 Cyber-terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Cyber-terrorism is terrorism that uses cracking over computer networks and Internet-based attacks in the service of terrorism.
As the Internet continues to expand, and computer systems continue to be assigned more responsibility while becoming more and more complex and interdependent, sabotage or terrorism via cyberspace may become a more serious threat.
Public interest in cyber-terrorism began in the late 1980s, reaching a level of high anxiety as Y2K approached.
www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cyber-terrorism   (394 words)

  
 Terrorism - dKosopedia
Right-wing terrorism, or "neo-Fascist" terrorism, seeks to do away with liberal democratic governments and create fascist states in their place.
Other examples of right-wing terrorism border on religious terrorism, such as the shootings of abortion doctors, bombings of abortion clinics, and the Centennial Olympic Park bombing by Eric Rudolph.
The classic model of state sponsored terrorism is that of Libya where a government, under direct orders from its supreme dictatorial leader, simply hires a terrorist to go blow up civilian airliners unconnected to any military activity.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Terrorism   (3613 words)

  
 Eco-terrorism - Wikipedia
While there is no consensus on the exact definition of "terrorism", the word is typically used to describe politically motivated acts of violence, threatened use of violence or the destruction of property with the intention to intimidate governments or civilians.
The FBI's Domestic Terrorism Section defines eco-terrorism as "the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature."
Other acts, which are nonviolent in nature, cannot be properly referred to as "eco-terrorism" even though they might be annoying or disruptive to others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecoterrorism   (645 words)

  
 Anarchist Gifts
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 Anarchist Statement Against ALL Forms Of Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Terrorism is the attack on a civilian population to induce fear and to force change in government policy.
Anarchists believe in resisting authoritarianism, and believe in the reconcilitation of ends with means.
Anarchists must continue to fight for a classless, stateless, and just society by resisting such unjust acts.
www.progressiveaustin.org /anarcwtc.htm   (468 words)

  
 You can't blow up a social relationship
The basic theme is that terrorism can in no way be considered a positive alternative to mass social revolutionary action.
Although the pamphlet rejects terrorism this does not preclude the many and varied forms of direct action practiced by the revolutionary movement.
In the "white terror" in Guatemala literally thousands died each year (2,000 - 6,000 was the estimate for 1967-68).
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 Terrorism: Q & A
Experts say that nationalist terror groups have tended to calibrate their use of violence, using enough to rivet world attention but not so much that they alienate supporters abroad or members of their base community.
Earlier nationalist terror groups sought to expel colonial rulers; such groups included the Irgun and the Lehi (both Jewish militias opposed to British rule in Palestine in the 1940s) and the National Liberation Front (opposed to French rule in Algeria in the 1950s).
This type of terrorism is growing swiftly, notes Bruce Hoffman of the RAND think tank; in 1995 (the most recent year for which such statistics were available), nearly half of the 56 known, active international terrorist groups were religiously motivated.
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 (DV) San Juan Jr: Imperialist War Against Terrorism & Revolution in the Philippines
We declare that the key to ending all forms of terrorism is the development of new relations among nations and peoples based on unfailing respect for the right to self-determination of peoples, and on a greater measure of economic, political and social equality on a world scale (1987).
The reason why individual terrorism is, in our view, not permissible is precisely because it lowers the political consciousness of the masses, causes them to acquiesce in their own lack of strength, and directs their gaze and hopes to a great avenger and liberator who may come one day to do their work for them...
The terror unleashed by powerful drug and crime syndicates joins the official state terror inflicted by the military, and police can only drive home the lesson that the masses of people have to defend themselves with their own army, such as the New People's Army or the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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 The Easy Road from Tourism to Terrorism | Anarchist news dot org
They were arrested on 25 June, 2005, when the police attacked a demonstration organized in solidarity with the Italian anarchist movement, which had recently been repressed in a wave of over 180 raids, 25 arrests and a number of imprisonments on the instrumentality of a vague, guilt-by-association law.
But as much as the Barcelona police have a vendetta against squatters and anarchists, along with immigrants and anyone darker than them, this repression is not a grassroots initiative: it's an order from on high.
To repress this vision, the authorities clearly have recourse to terrorist measures, and there is another kind of terrorism as well in the quotidian reality of poverty and consumption.
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 Radical Tradition Main Index - an Australasian History page of working class struggle and anarchism
Anarchist gatherings site reports from Anarchist Teaparty National Symposium in Aotearoa in December 2003, and Anarcon 4 held in Perth in January 2004.
Against Terrorism, Against War is an index of articles that document the peace movement in Melbourne after the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001.
The anarchist philosophy he developed was anarcho-technocracy and The Politics of Things, which are prescient pieces of writing on anarchism, technics and society, still relevant today.
www.takver.com /history/index.htm   (3295 words)

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