Action directe

Action Directe can mean:Action Directe (armed group), the 1970s and 1980s French urban guerrilla group Squamish Five, sometimes known as Action DirecteAction Directe (climb), the rock climb French term for direct action
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Action directe (AD) was a French libertarian communist armed group which committed a series of assassinations and violent attacks in France between 1979 and 1987.Action directe was set up in 1977 by two other groups, GARI (Groupes d'Action Révolutionnaire Internationalistes, revolutionary internationalist action groups) and NAPAP (Noyaux Armés pour l'Autonomie Populaire, armed core groups for popular autonomy), as the "military-political co-ordination of the autonomous movement". In 1979 it was transformed into an "urban guerrilla organisation" and carried out violent attacks under the banner of "anti-imperialism" and "proletarian defence." The group was banned by the French government in August 1982. In 1984 Action directe allied itself with the German Red Army Faction.
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