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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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"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognize terrorism if it
came up and bit him on his Internet."
-- Ross M. Greenberg
(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.