They travel to Australia, South Africa or New Zealand, warm-up with a series of fraught and sometimes overly violent matches against fired-up provincial sides, and then face their hosts in a three-match Test series of superb physicality, tension and excitement.
It's doubtful there are any "good revolutionaries" in the three separate violent match-ups in Mali -- it's probably more akin to trying to gain control over an Animal Farm type situation.
It has the horrific fascination of a violent boxing match.
To roughly co-opt a metaphor from the late George Carlin, they are staged as violent boxing matches: arenas where candidates face off against each other and try to punch and counterpunch their way to victory.
Many of them didn't take it too well and, of the 42 arrests made in violent post-match scenes, 41 of those who had their collars felt were home fans.
"He's my new favorite wrestler!" Along with being a longtime wrestling fan, Goldberg handles vocals for Eat the Turnbuckle, a band that describes itself as "ULTRA-VIOLENT DEATH MATCH ROCK AND ROLL".
Later, in the only bar in town, we stocked up on Patricia - the country's favourite beer and another great reason to visit - as Uruguay played Peru in an exceptionally violent friendly football match.
"One of the things we were concerned about is not everybody respects the intellectual forum of discussing these things, and some people can get violent," said STUART MATCH SUNA, the chairman of the festival and the president of Silvercup Studios.
Yet this antique and violent theology is matched by a skill in propaganda and a decentralised secret organisation, which may be unmatched.
Its raw and violent subject is matched by its hectic style; the thin production values take a backseat to Fuller's rich imagination.
