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RZ Letter to the RAF Comrades

This letter is addressed to all raf comrades. It is an open letter. We are a section of the Revolutionary Cells (rz). However, many arguments from the undogmatic movement are integrated into this letter, both because we consider these arguments to be correct and because we feel ourselves to be a part of this movement.……… Read the rest

The Structure of the RAF (Mohnhaupt and Pohl at Stammheim Trial)

A document by Brigitte Mohnhaupt & Helmut Pohl of the Red Army Faction, while in prison.

About Andreas and the Group (Gudrun Ensslin)

He gives no “instructions”, he gives no “orders”, and I can only recall one order apart from situations within an action – the one regarding journalists attempting to buy the prisoners – not to speak to them. Furthermore, the RAF’s definition of an order is well known.……… Read the rest

Interview with Le Monde Diplomatique

This interview originated from questions presented to the lawyers by Le Monde Diplomatique. The political parts of the questions were answered by the prisoners. While we are not aware of the interview ever being published by the liberal French newspaper, copies were distributed by the prisoners’ supporters.……… Read the rest

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