Rote Zora Cells, a major far-left terrorist organisation in West Germany, which saw itself as a rival to the more prominent Red Army Faction. The organization took its name from the protagonist of the 1941 book "Die Rote Zora und ihre Bande" (english title The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle) by Kurt Held, which tells the story of a red-haired Croatian girl named Rote Zora ("rote" meaning red in German) who leads a gang of orphans committed to righting injustice. The organization had previously existed from 1974 as "Women of the Revolutionary Cells" and began its attacks in 1975, with a bombing of
Japanese Red Army should be done by legal means. The National Police Agency publicly stated that a successor group was founded in 2001, called "Movement Rentai". During the 1970s and 1980s, JRA carried out a series of attacks in Japan and around the world, including: Japanese Red Army The was a communist terrorist group founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon. After the Lod airport massacre, it sometimes called itself Arab-JRA. The JRA's stated goals were to overthrow the Japanese government and the monarchy, as well as to start a world revolution. The group was also known as the Anti-Imperialist International