red army faction

Jan-Carl Raspe: On the Murder of Ulrike Meinhof

I don’t have much to say. We believe Ulrike was executed. We don’t know how, but we understand the reasoning behind the method chosen. I recall Herold’s statement, “Actions against the raf must primarily be developed in such a way as to undermine the positions held by sympathizers.”……… Read the rest

Ulrike Meinhof: Fragment Regarding Structure

This is a fragment about the structure of the group, which Ulrike insisted on presenting in Stammheim, in order to destroy the leadership theory around which the baw wanted to build this trial. Andreas was opposed, and we all wanted to write it differently.……… Read the rest

History Of The Federal Republic of Germany And The Old Left

A document by the Red Army Faction, a West German anti-imperialist guerilla group which existed from the 1970s-1990s.

Ulrike Meinhof: Letter to the Hamburg Prisoners

This letter was written to raf prisoner Werner Hoppe, who came to the raf out of communist section of the student movement. (M. & S.) We are beginning to find you truly insufferable—the class perspective with which you puff yourselves up.……… Read the rest

Two Letters To Hanna Krabbe (from Ulrike Meinhof)

Krabbe, along with the other members of the Holger Meins Commando, was to go on trial in May 1976 on charges relating to the Stockholm action. (M. & S.) first letter (march19, 1976) The politicians’ drivel is not what the people think, but what the politicians need them to think.……… Read the rest

Fragment Regarding the Soviet Union (Gudrun Ensslin in the Stammheim Trial)

One of the formulations that routinely appear in news agency reports falsifying our statements is that we had “distanced ourselves from the Soviet Union.” – About that the following is to be said: 1. This claim is false. We have never said anything about the policies of the Soviet Union – not least of all because it would be absurd and it isn’t our thing to pronounce verdicts, pass judgments, or offer opinions that are irrelevant to our politics and would only create confusion regarding what we need to convey – the concept of proletarian politics in a country totally occupied and penetrated by imperialism.……… Read the rest

The Bombing of the Cologne Train Station

On the night of November11–12, state security agents and/or fascists again set off a bomb in a train station—first Hamburg and Nuremberg, and now Cologne. The federal government’s Terrorism Division and the cops hoped to create a bloodbath with this pointless act of terrorism.……… Read the rest

The Bombing of the Hamburg Train Station

In the face of the state propaganda effort to tie the attack at the Hamburg Central Station to the raf, we state clearly: the nature of this explosion speaks the language of reaction. It can only be understood as part of the psychological war that state security is waging against the urban guerilla.……… Read the rest

No Bomb in Munich Central Station

the bomb attack in munich central station In order to create greater publicity for this statement from the guerilla regarding the right-wing attacks, on September 14, 1975, we announced that a bomb would explode in Munich Central Station at 6:50 pm.……… Read the rest

The Nature of the Stammheim Trial: The Prisoners Testify

All there is to say regarding our identity is that which remains of the moral person in this trial: nothing. In this trial, the moral person—this concept created by the authorities—has been liquidated in every possible way—both through the guilty sentence Schmidt has already pronounced and through the Federal Supreme Court decision relative to §231a[1] of the Penal Code in the recent hearing before the Federal Administrative Court, which, by ratifying the Federal Supreme Court decision, has done away with the legal fictions of the Basic Law.……… Read the rest