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The growing threat from "extreme right-wing" terrorism will be included in official threat-level warnings for the first time, the home secretary has announced.
Until now, the alerts – which tell the public if the risk is low, substantial or critical – have taken into account the threat of attack from Islamists only.
The change follows growing recognition of the rising threat from the far right, since the murder of 50 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday July 25 2019, @12:38PM (2 children)
Hard to say, didn't note any links to any actual reports. But it could be that it's now "old" or out of the timeline. After all how far back should you go?
I don't recall any, or many, international right-wing-terrorplots going off but I might have missed some. Are they usually not more interesting in purging the homeland and making it all white again (or something such)? While the current breed of international terror do seem to be very Islamic in its orientation -- lots of infidels to kill for some reason or another.
So apparently there is no left-wing terrorism or international left wing terrorism .... any more that is. The 1970's or so would beg to differ. But that is clearly looking back to far? But almost of them going about then was left wing and very international. Considering it's the UK then all the various versions of the IRA are left-wing be it the original one, the provisional, the real, the continuity, the official one, the other real one (not to be confused with the first real one), the new one and the current one -- the IRA are probably the weirdest one when it comes to naming and a great source of confusion. This is the answer for when leftists run about yelling that the left-wing (anti-fa) never killed anyone -- The IRA in all it's glorious versions killed a few thousand people all in all during its main active years.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday July 26 2019, @10:23AM (1 child)
The IRA (and its various splinter groups) were never fighting for a leftist cause. They were fighting to kick the British out of Ireland and unite the whole island under one flag. That's the only agenda that inspired them to commit violence and it's not a left vs right agenda, it's purely a nationalist one.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday July 26 2019, @11:34AM
Just cause someone is Nationalistic doesn't mean they can't also be left-wing. One doesn't conflict with the other. While on the surface it might have seem like they where all just about kicking the British out of Ireland their ideology goes somewhat deeper then that. Both Sinn Fein (their public political wing) and the IRA (in all it's glorious forms) had a goal of creating a Socialist Republic, they just had to get rid of the British first. This is something that they clearly stated in their training and indoctrination manual (aka the Green Book). So it was not just about getting, or kicking, the British out of Ireland. They had long term plans and they were Socialists and Marxists in nature. Which by more or less all common definitions would make them a left-wing terrorist organization.
Since they also had international connections, while perhaps not the best track record for operations abroad -- unless mainland Britain is considered to be abroad from an Irish perspective, and then that whole fiasco that went down in a hail of bullets in Gibraltar. That would make them an international left-wing terrorist (or para-military) organization. They also supported a lot of other similar organizations during their time in other parts of the world and they where all also left-wing.
So I don't see how you would somehow think that they are not a left-wing terrorist organization cause that would clearly go against their own self-stated ideology and long term goals.