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A Statement and a Poem for Christa Eckes

Former RAF member Christa Eckes died of cancer on Wednesday, May 23, in Karlsruhe, Germany. (To read more about Christa, click here.) The following is a statement by Ronald Augustin and a poem by Gisela Dutzi, regarding their comrade and friend: ron: christa and i, we failed to meet each other on several occasions. ……… Read the rest

On Christian Klar and Klaus Viehmann’s Criticisms (Inge Viett, February 9, 2011)

Dear Comrades, Just as Christian and Klaus published their texts, I would now like to publish mine. “If you happen to read in the papers that Lenin has had me arrested for stealing the silver spoons in the Kremlin, that simply means I’m not entirely in agreement with him.”—Alexandra……… Read the rest

On the Rosa Luxemburg Conference and Inge Viett (Christian Klar, January 2011)

In Europe, there has been wave after wave of economic crises, and the masses are feeling the repercussions. Social protest is growing—massively in places like Greece, France, and Spain. Since the 2008 international financial crisis, the capitalist social order is no longer an unquestioned framework in the general public’s discussions.……… Read the rest

A Word From Russell “Maroon” Shoats

In today’s world ANYONE who dares to raise their voice against ANYTHING being heaped on them by those in power needs to read this book. The repressive methods that the West German state brought to bear against the RAF—detailed by the authors—have been adopted, universalized, and refined, and can be found in use in a prison, jail, detention center or other “holding facility” not far from you.……… Read the rest

Foreword by Bill Dunne

Projectiles for the People, Volume One of The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History, is an important exposition of what it means to wage armed struggle as an urban guerilla in the post WWII western imperial-capitalist paradigm. Via the fast-turning pages of Projectiles, Smith and Moncourt usher us through the RAF ’s emergence in Germany from a moribund and constrained left opposition misdirected and suppressed by U.S.……… Read the rest

Staying Alive: Sensory Deprivation, Torture, and the Struggle Behind Bars

By 1972, practically the whole founding generation of the RAF were behind bars. Yet there was still a second generation and a third generation. Why? Primarily because of the conditions of imprisonment and state-organized terror. Dieter Kunzelmann former K.1 Communard[1] Having captured the ideological leadership of the RAF, the West German state set in motion the second element of their counterinsurgency project: one which would eventually become known as the “Stammheim Model.”……… Read the rest

Comments on Anja Röhl’s Revelations (Moncourt and Smith)

On May 11, 2010, Anja Röhl – the stepdaughter of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the Red Army Faction – released a public statement describing sexual abuse she had suffered as a child, at the hands of her father Klaus Rainer Röhl.……… Read the rest

On the Recent Statement by Some Former Members of the RAF (André Moncourt and J. Smith, May 2010)

The events of 1977 that would come to be known as the “German Autumn” actually came at the end of a Red Army Faction offensive that had begun on April 7 of that year with the assassination of Attorney General Siegfried Buback, widely considered to be the state figure primarily responsible for the torture and murder of revolutionary prisoners.……… Read the rest

The Time is Right to Talk About Paedophilia (Anja Röhl)

One of the most important men to openly defend paedophilia was a member of my family: his name was Klaus Rainer Röhl, and he was my father. He’s still alive, but the words “He is my father” will never cross my lips.……… Read the rest

A note regarding the current situation – by some who have been RAF members at various points in time May 2010

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