DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: In 1983, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol.
Eventually, M19 turned to building explosives themselves. Just before 11 p.m. on November 7, 1983, they called the U.S. Capitol switchboard and warned them to evacuate the building. Ten minutes later, a bomb detonated in the building’s north wing, harming no one but blasting a 15-foot gash in a wall and causing $1 million in damage. Over the course of a 20-month span in 1983 and 1984, M19 also bombed an FBI office, the Israel Aircraft Industries building, and the South African consulate in New York, D.C.’s Fort McNair and Navy Yard (which they hit twice.) The attacks tended to follow a similar pattern: a warning call to clear the area, an explosion, a pre-recorded message to media railing against U.S. imperialism or the war machine under various organizational aliases (never using the name M19).
Note this passage:
You write, “Despite claims by Fox News and others that Antifa activists are ‘terrorists,’ their street brawling and harassment of right-wing extremists hardly rise to the level of the left-wing political violence of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The same cannot be said about the Neo-Nazi and white supremacist violence.” Could you talk about the parallels or lack thereof between the left-wing terrorism you write about and some of the domestic terrorism we’re seeing today?
The above article was published on January 6th, 2020, before that year’s summer of leftist riots.
More: The New York Times, March 2, 1971: Bomb in Capitol Causes Wide Damage.