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We are glad that you have all come to this demonstration and to this congress, despite the massive numbers of police troops and the media’s smear-campaign, both of which attempted to beat down and defeat your organizing efforts and preparations. Despite the varying levels in the development of the struggle and differing conditions, there remains the need for a common search for urgent solutions for peoples’ lives against the world-dominating policies of the G-7 states, whose capitalist power rules over people and destroys nature.……… Read the rest

I have been free since May 15. So I’d like to thank all those people who struggled for my freedom for the 15 years and two weeks that I spent in jail. All of the various initiatives and campaigns which led to my release supported me against the State’s plan of destruction during my more than 15 years in prison – and they are also the reason that I’m standing before you today.……… Read the rest

The following interview is from Konkret (a monthly magazine for left theory, discussion and culture), June 1992. The participants in this talk are: Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Knut Folkerts and Lutz Taufer, captured members of the RAF – prisoners since 1975 (Knut Folkerts since 1977), Rosita Timm, member of the Green Party in Hamburg and involved in the movement to free the political prisoners, Thomas Ebermann, former member of the Green Party, and Hermann L.……… Read the rest

Question: On May 15th you celebrated your 45th birthday in Lübeck-Laverhof prison, your 20th birthday behind bars. What effect has this long term imprisonment had on your physical health? Irmgard: I have been in jail since I was 25 – for the first several years, I was completely isolated from other prisoners [2].……… Read the rest

We’d like to briefly state the following: the decision made by our comrades on the outside is a correct one, one which identifies a political process which we prisoners are also a part of [2]. We have wanted – ever since ’89 – to make a break in the entire political spectrum, and such a step can only be taken by all of us together, not just in the area of prisoners.……… Read the rest

This is what we are looking for as well. There are thousands of questions on the table that scream for a solution, if these problems are not soon faced and solved they will lead humanity into the catastrophe. They are caused by the capitalistic principle that only profit and power have a value and that people and nature are subservient to it.……… Read the rest

The entire history of the State’s “big pursuit” of us has been nothing but a bunch of lies from beginning to end. We never made any contacts with a VS spy named Nonne [1], nor did we live with any such person before the Herrhausen action [2], nor did any spy know of it beforehand and help us with the preparations.……… Read the rest

I want, with this letter, to explain the things I’ll have to come to grips with, should I be released from jail in early May – after 15 years of internment. I will have to be examined by a neurologist, under normal living conditions (that is, outside of prison and isolation), to see just how bad the danger of my epileptic fits is.……… Read the rest

She or he who doesn’t fight dies little by little. Freedom is only possible through fighting for liberation. On the first of April, 1991, we shot the president of the Berlin “Treuhandanstalt” [1], Detlev Korsten Rohwedder, with the Ulrich Wessel Commando [2].……… Read the rest