The group wanted to merge the socialist class struggle, elements of local banditry and the separatist aspirations on the island, calling for a "Sardinia for the Sardinians";[1] they were also against the Italian and American military installations on the island, that were to be sold to the highest bidder.

[2] Everything was actually in accordance with Giangiacomo Feltrinelli's ideas, who made a failed plan to turn the island into "the Mediterranean Cuba" in 1968.

[3] The group claimed responsibility for a number of homicides, bombings and also kidnappings for ransom,[4][5][6][7] although it is believed it operated even more fiercely against the Italian Armed Forces, accused of colonizing the island and destroy the "morality, way of living, and noble traditions" of the Sardinians.

On 5 July Giovanni Bosco, a mainland priest from Benevento, had been found dead by a gas station in Dorgali.

They would also carry out a few attacks on the mainland, like on 19 November 1983, when they kidnapped Anna Bulgari and his son Giorgio Calissoni in Latina, Lazio.