Since September 30 (12 days) force-feeding has been occurring here daily. It takes place in the sickbay (in a one-storey building in B wing—a sort of annex—I am celled in A wing, in the middle of the first floor). I am escorted by 5–6 of the greens.[1]……… Read the rest

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

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

whose fault is it if oppression continues? ours! whose fault is it if oppression is not smashed? ours as well![1] Prisons, the military, and the police are the basic tools of the imperialist state. They are the basic tools of the state with which the bourgeoisie asserts, protects, and achieves its ruling class power—and they always have been.……… Read the rest

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

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

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

Comrades, some of you still believe that you don’t have any reason to dialogue with the Red Army Faction. Some of you still believe that the cops will soon have a handle on the armed struggle in the metropole. Some of you still believe what you read in the newspapers: that the raf is on the run, that there are splits in the raf, that the raf has a hierarchical structure, that the raf is isolated.……… Read the rest