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This is a Marxist-Leninist group whose aim is to separate Italy from the Western Alliance. An ultra-leftist group, the Red Brigades, left its mark on the Italian political scene of the 1970s and '80s. The organization arose out of the student protest movement of the late 1960s. It's ideology advocated violence in the service of class warfare and revolution. Most of the group's attacks targeted symbols of "the establishment" such as unionists, politicians and businessmen. In it's later period it advocated Italy's withdrawal from NATO. From the mid-eighties onward, the Red Brigade entered a period of decline. Internal scisms, ideological crisis, operational failures, and the arrest of many of the group's leaders undermined the organization's cohesion. Increasingly, the Red Brigades grew isolated from its working class base and from public opinion. On the operationl level, the 1981 pentiti legislation, which encouraged defection and enhanced the powers of the security forces, helped to hasten the group's flight underground. As was the case with other extremist organizations, the Brigade Rosse withdrew into its shell, distanced itself from political propaganda, and focused increasingly on its war against the security forces. In April 1984, four imprisoned leaders of the organization published an Óopen letterÔ in which they rejected the armed struggle as pointless: ÓThe international conditions that made this struggle possible no longer exist,Ô they stated.