The article takes the cases of Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) as the pont of departure to discuss how a insurgent political movement uses the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). During the 1996äóñ97 Japanese Embassy hostage incident in Lima, Peru, MRTA supporters in Japan, Europe and North America used online technology to relay the group's message to a global public. The resulting direct media access provided the MRTA with an unprecendented level of global publicity. Through referring to the äóÖMRTA Solidarity Page', the types of message transmitted, the forms of transmission (text, video, audio, eäómail or other), and target publics (national, global, political elites, media), the article outlines the issues and theoretical challenges raised by electronic antiäógovernment information provision. The Internet and WWW do not alone constitute the threat to state power as some analysts suggest but does in some sense dramatically alter political communication. New media will probably coäóexist with other forms of political communication for some time.