Action directe (armed group) as an example for a terrorist group whose names sound like rock bands', along with The Weathermen, Black September, and the Red Army Faction. In Tom Clancy's book "Patriot Games" protagonist Jack Ryan identifies a training camp used by the group which is later raided by French special forces. It is also briefly mentioned by Harrison Ford's character in the 1992 film of the same name. The group did end up publishing a book, a political manifesto rather, entitled "Pour un Projet communiste" in 1982, which resembled the 1848 "Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx. According to sources, it has no
United Red Army United Red Army The was a Japanese terrorist organization, established on 15 July 1971. It united the Marxist–Leninist-Maoist , led in 1971 by Tsuneo Mori, and the Reformed Marxist Revolutionary Left Wing group, Japanese Communist Party Kanagawa Prefecture Committee, aka led by Hiroko Nagata. The United Red Army had 29 members and lost 14 by killing them in less than a year. Most were members of the New Left. Early in August, two defectors were lynched and their bodies buried in Inba numa marsh, Chiba Prefecture. In the winter of 1971–1972 the United Red Army was hiding in the mountains