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May 19 Communist Organization  

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  • The May 19 Communist Organization, a clandestine Marxist revolutionary group with roots in the Weather Underground, participated in a 1981 armored car robbery that renewed interest in the remnants of the new left terrorism. By the mid-1970s, the infamous group of armed white revolutionaries known as the Weather Underground had split into bickering factions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; May 19 Communist Organization]

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