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Daniela Klette: It’s a Settling of Accounts with This Particular History of Resistance

Trial statement at the Verden Regional Court, March 25, 2025. I agree with the defense motion to dismiss. I would, however, like to add a few things. After the RAF [Red Army Faction] ended its urban guerrilla project in April, twenty-seven years ago, Burkhard Garweg, Volker Staub, and I were confronted with the BKA’s ongoing public manhunt for the alleged “last former RAF militants.”[1]……… Read the rest

Freedom & Happiness – Call for a Demonstration in Solidarity with Daniela Klette

22.02.25 – 18:30 – Oranienplatz Reposted from: https://freiheit-fuer-daniela.de/ Stop State Terrorism Solidarity with the People in Hiding and the Prisoners Almost a year ago, on February 26, 2024, Daniela Klette was arrested in her apartment in Kreuzberg and has been in custody in Vechta Prison ever since.……… Read the rest

Recent Dispatches from Comrades in Germany, 2024–25

By the time Daniela Klette, Burkhard Garweg, and Volker Staub ended up on wanted posters, the group they were accused of belonging to—the Red Army Faction—had been in existence for over two decades. The RAF was a clandestine organization that had waged armed struggle throughout the 1970s and 1980s in order to create an anti-imperialist pole of resistance in West Germany, as the country was known at the time.……… Read the rest

Greetings from the Underground, Martin (Burkhard Garweg), late 2024

To family, friends, comrades, allies, and the caravan park residents. To anyone who wants to engage with me and with our point of view. Legal, illegal, who gives a shit? On February 26 of this year, Daniela Klette was arrested in Berlin.……… Read the rest

Letter from Daniela Klette to the Rosa Luxemburg Congress, January 11, 2025

Dear attendees of the Rosa Luxemburg Conference – Dear comrades, I greet you today from the prison in Vechta. Almost a year ago, after decades of living underground, I was arrested. Before me lie several years of trials, in which I am accused of participating in armed expropriations.……… Read the rest

Inge Viett, 1944-2022

Several weeks ago, we learned that Inge Viett had died. She passed on May 9, at the age of 78. We offer the following notes to English-speaking readers, so that they can know something of this former guerilla and her legacy.……… Read the rest

Historiography and Armed Struggle, by Ron Augustin

(Talk at the University of Amsterdam, June 2016) In every epoch, the attempt must be made to deliver tradition anew from the conformism which is on the point of overwhelming it. —Walter Benjamin The RAF’s history spans a period of thirty years.……… Read the rest

Helmut Pohl, 1943-2014

“I can still see myself sitting there with Gudrun and Andreas, in front of us a long report on Vietcong attacks in the US military’s hinterland in South Vietnam. Guerrilla units had attacked US military headquarters right in enemy territory. One single attack already conveyed the entire strategy.……… Read the rest

Rolf Clemens Wagner, a Life of Resistance

Former Red Army Faction member Rolf Clemens Wagner died on February 11, 2014. Wagner had first become involved in underground armed politics in the aftermath of the RAF’s 1972 May Offensive in West Germany. Dozens of guerillas had been captured, and were being held in strict solitary confinement (in some cases, entire prison wings were emptied to isolate the political prisoners) and subjected to various forms of abuse.……… Read the rest

Christa Eckes – Honor Her Memory!

The first time Christa Eckes made the news was back in 1970, when as a teenager growing up in the West German city of Hamburg she was expelled from high school for starting a political action group. The “Basisgruppe LS-Schülerinnen” (LS Students Grassroots Group) was said to have distributed leaflets, organized resistance to the school board, the school administration and the parents’ advisory board, organized a questionnaire about sexual problems without informing the school administration and also to have disrupted a Christmas party.……… Read the rest