Jason Burke
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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But what I think he was saying is that it was, in a sense, it was the violence with a spectacular gesture, but it never had any serious chance of succeeding and achieving any of its aims.
No, I think it's really relevant.
I mean, one of the things that struck me when I kind of dived into the 70s was how many parallels there are.
You know, you've got a period of intense economic distress for many people.
You've got massive geopolitical instability, but also kind of geopolitical competition.
You've got war in the Middle East.
You've got disruptive media technologies.
You've got kind of a paranoid world.
that lots of people feel that they don't really know what's going on and lots of conspiracy theories, populism, distrust of politicians.
I mean, it's really similar in many ways.
And you have protest movements building at the moment, some of which lead to violence and you have a significant amount of extremism, particularly, it must be said, right-wing extremism, that is very threatening.
I don't think we're in that moment where...
we're likely to have immediately groups like the RAF campaigns, particularly if we're looking at the left wing.
I mean, left-wing violence is still relatively low level, particularly in Europe.
But you could see that happening.
The RAF were the extremist fringe of an extreme fringe of a much broader movement.
And that movement wanted radical change, radical transformation, often for some very good reasons.
And there are a lot of people around at the moment who want change for some very good reasons.
And it would be odd if some of them, if they felt frustrated, didn't turn to violence in some kind of way in coming years.
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