ANTI-IMPERIALIST INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE

Pronunciation (US):

• ANTI-IMPERIALIST INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE (noun)
  The noun ANTI-IMPERIALIST INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists

  Familiarity information: ANTI-IMPERIALIST INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE used as a noun is very rare.

• ANTI-IMPERIALIST INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE (noun)

Meaning:

A terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Anti-Imperialist International Brigade; Japanese Red Army; JRA

Context example:

in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)