Terrorism
has long been described as ‘the propaganda of the deed’; I noted this last August (‘Terrorism, Murder
and Madness’). It is a description that
comes from Nineteenth Century Russian theorists of political violence, who were
persistently intent on bringing down the Czarist regime. Since then, it has provided a potent method
of getting the message across for a wide range of activist groups, down to the
present time, and there is every reason to think that it will continue into the
indefinite future.
