red army faction

In the Front Paper we state that the revolutionary strategy is the strategy against their strategy. With this we have proceeded forcefully, basing ourselves on our own situation, and on that which has characterized it since ’77: the military offensive from which imperialism hopes to emerge as a world system.……… Read the rest

We have to talk about ’77 again here, specifically about the political strategy behind the first phase of armed struggle in which the attacks occurred and how new conditions for revolutionary politics developed out of this conflict. We also have to say a few things about what happened when we took Schleyer captive and demanded the prisoners in exchange for him.……… Read the rest

We are going to discuss what we have learned in recent years, and what we want to do as a result. What we have to say will, of course, be general in nature. We believe that it is now possible and necessary for the revolutionary strategy to enter a new stage in the imperialist centers.……… Read the rest

Even if it’s not really our thing to issue rebuttals to police fabrications, we want to make a few things clear, because they are trying to make an example out of some public political figures to show that they can use whatever scare tactics they want—to spread terror.……… Read the rest

ATTACK THE CENTERS, THE BASES, AND THE STRATEGISTS OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY MACHINE Today, with the “Gudrun Ensslin Commando,” we attacked General Kroesen, the supreme commander of the U.S. Army and of NATO’s Central Europe Section. He is one of the U.S.……… Read the rest

ATTACK THE CENTERS, THE BASES, AND THE STRATEGISTS OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY MACHINE Today, with the “Sigurd Debus Commando,” we attacked the Ramstein Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. The U.S. imperialists will not be permitted to prepare and carry out their plans for world domination in peace and quiet.……… Read the rest

We’ve decided to break off the hunger strike, since it seems that following two interventions by Amnesty International prisoners will no longer be held in individual isolation and more prisoners’ groups will be formed. Also, over the past few days it has become clear that after ten weeks on hunger strike, Sigurd Debus died as a result of force-feeding carried out with the most brutal violence possible.……… Read the rest

THE SOLIDARITY OF THE PEOPLE IS GROUNDED IN REVOLT We, the prisoners from the RAF, are once again going on hunger strike. We will not stop struggling against torture, against the open and covert extermination campaigns, against the entire institutionalized and refined strategy to destroy our political identities.……… Read the rest

Wolfgang and Juliane—their deaths are hard for us, especially in such an absurd accident. They had prepared for a different death, not this brutal, daily metropolitan waste. The bullshit the press is cranking out is really too much. Anyone who ever had anything to do with Wolfgang knows who he was.……… Read the rest