In Western Europe and Japan as well, college students joined in protests and campus sit-ins against the war and to demand reform in their institutions of higher learning. It seemed logical to blame this poverty on the industrialized nations, since so much of the Third World had once been colonized by Europe. What the younger generation wanted was to change everything all at once, and this yearning led eventually to the formation of small bands of people devoted to change by violence. Several organizations in many countries emerged almost simultaneously. Over the years these groups have learned the value of cooperation.
Organizational goals vary.
Some groups are purely nationalistic. The Provisional Irish Republican Army wants the British to get out of Northern Ireland and to unite the two Irelands into a single nation. The FALN wants an independent Puerto Rico with a socialist government. Basque terrorists in northern Spain would like to establish an independent homeland. Most Palestinian terrorist groups attempt to undermine Israel.