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Left-wing terrorism or far-left terrorism is a form of terrorist political violence motivated by left-wing or far-left ideologies, [2] committed with the aim of overthrowing current capitalist systems and replacing them with communist, anarchist or socialist societies. [3]
According to analysis by the newspaper of data from the Global Terrorism Database, 92 of 263 domestic terrorism events – 35% – that occurred from 2010 to 2017 were right-wing related, while 38 (14%) were Islamist extremist-related, and 34 (13%) were left-wing related.
The threat of terrorism in the U.S. is "not more potent than it was around 9/11, but it's certainly more diverse and difficult to counter," a researcher says.
The threat of terrorism — particularly from the far right — should be a major concern for governments on both sides of the Atlantic as coronavirus restrictions continue to ease, according to ...
Of the 65 known incidents of domestic terrorism that happened last year, more than half — 36 incidents in total — were perpetrated by individuals with extreme right-wing viewpoints.
Far-left politics, also known as extreme left politics or left-wing extremism, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single, coherent definition; some scholars consider it to be the left of communist parties , while others broaden it to include the left ...
The Anti-Defamation League's statistics about extremism have been cited as authoritative by much of the press, including its most publicized claim that nearly three-quarters of extremist killings ...
About Category:Left-wing terrorism and related categories. The scope of this category includes pages whose subjects relate to terrorism, a contentious label.. Value-laden labels—such as calling an organization and/or individual a terrorist—may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable sources to describe the subject, in which case use in-text attribution.