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The Bombing of the Bremen Train Station

raf actions are never directed against the people. Given the choice of target, the bomb that exploded in the Bremen Central Station on Saturday bears the mark of the ongoing security police operation. To intimidate and control the people, they are no longer restricting themselves to the fascist tactic of threats: of bombings, as in Stuttgart in June1972; of rocket attacks against the millions of spectators at the Soccer World Cup in March1974; of poisoning the people’s drinking water in Baden-Württemberg in August1974.[1]……… Read the rest

Holger Meins’ Last Letter

In a July 2008 interview with the Berlin left-wing daily, taz, Manfred Grashof acknowledged that he was the RAF prisoner referred to in this letter. In the interview, he explained that he had decided to break off the hunger strike because he felt that it was the result of a decision taken by a small number of prisoners who had not adequately discussed it with the others.……… Read the rest

The Expulsion of Horst Mahler

At this point, we have nothing more to say about Horst Mahler’s attempt to buy his freedom with denunciations of the raf (Baader liberation trial). The problem with Horst Mahler has always been that he is a filthy, bourgeois chauvinist, who has transferred the ruling class arrogance which he picked up as a lawyer within the imperialist system—an arrogance that he made his own—to the proletarian revolutionary movement, and this well before the raf.……… Read the rest

Third Hunger Strike

If someone understands their situation— how can they be stopped? This is our third hunger strike against special conditions and the extermination strategy being used against political prisoners in the Federal Republic and West Berlin; against the counterinsurgency program of imperialism’s machinery of destruction, the baw, the bka’s Bonn Security Group/State Security Division for the annihilation of revolutionary prisoners and prisoners who have begun to organize and struggle in the prisons.……… Read the rest

On the Liberation of Andreas Baader

The following text was read by Ulrike Meinhof at her trial alongside Hans-Jürgen Bäcker and Horst Mahler. (M. & S.) This trial is a tactical maneuver, a part of the psychological war being waged against us by the bka, the baw, and the justice system: with the goal of obfuscating both the political ramifications of our trials and the baw’s extermination strategy in West Germany; with the goal of using separate convictions to create the appearance of division, by putting only a few of us on display at any one time; with the goal of erasing the political context of all the raf prisoners’ trials from the public consciousness; with the goal of forever eliminating from the people’s consciousness the fact that on the imperialist terrain of West Germany and West Berlin there is a revolutionary urban guerilla movement.[1]……… Read the rest

Second Hunger Strike

Our January/February hunger strike was unsuccessful. The baw’s promise to end our isolation was bullshit. We are again on hunger strike. We demand: that political prisoners be placed with all of the other prisoners! and free access to political information for all prisoners—including from the media of the apo.……… Read the rest

Ulrike Meinhof on the Dead Wing

From the period between June 16, 1972 and February 9, 1973: The feeling, one’s head explodes (the feeling, the top of the skull will simply split, burst open)— the feeling, one’s spinal column presses into one’s brain the feeling, one’s brain gradually shrivels up like, like dried fruit, for example— the feeling, one is constantly, imperceptibly, flooded, one is remote-controlled— the feeling, one’s associations are hacked away— the feeling, one pisses the soul out of one’s body, like when one cannot hold water— the feeling, the cell moves.……… Read the rest

The Black September Action in Munich: Regarding the Strategy for Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Proletarian Revolutions… are constantly self-critical, repeatedly come to a standstill, return to past undertakings to begin them anew, pitilessly and thoroughly mocking their own half-measures, and the weakness and shabbiness of their own preliminary efforts. They seem to throw down their adversary only in order that he may draw new strength from the earth and rise again, more gigantic, before them.……… Read the rest