Europe's Last Red Terrorists: The Revolutionary Organization 17 November

Since the 1970s, Europe's last Marxist-Leninist terrorists -- the Greek Revolutionary Organization 17 November -- has waged a violent campaign against US and NATO personnel, Turkish diplomats and members of the Greek military and business elite. In May, 2000, they assassinated a top British diplomat in Athens in a daring daylight attack. Yet no one suspected of belonging to the organization, let alone of being involved in its terror campaign, has ever been arrested.This is the first book to deal with revolutionary terrorism in Greece. Tracing the history of 17 November, Kassimeris demonstrates how it has persevered with a one-dimensional view of a world peopled by heroes and villains, that has precluded the emergence of a coherent ideology. Combining fanatical nationalism, contempt for the existing order, and the cult of violence for its own sake, 17 November has stubbornly refused to accept that its eclectic belief system is incompatible with modern democratic principles.