In the armed strike is their best opportunity to organize sabotage and guerrilla attacks.
Even before the visa dispute, Botswana was severely shaken by several armed strikes last year by South African commandos purportedly in pursuit of nationalist guerrillas.
And with five forms of struggle: armed propaganda and agitation, sabotage, selective annihilation, fighting guerrillas and armed strikes.
Not that there was much of anywhere to go, but fleeing sickness and chemical attacks and armed strikes was pretty much instinctual.
The next day the Maoist guerrillas shut down most activity in Peru's capital, calling a two-day "armed strike."
The bombing was part of a series leading to an "armed strike" on Feb. 14.
An "armed strike" decreed by Sendero Luminoso in Lima on March 28 was reported to have seriously disrupted public transport.
On Friday, Lima's top civil defense authority held a meeting to plot ways to curb future "armed strikes" by the Shining Path.
Today, another "armed strike" stopped all transport and trade in Ayacucho, the birthplace of the radical movement.
On January 5th 2012 the organization launched an armed strike in much of northern Colombia to protest the killing of their leader 'Giovanni'.