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- 9781604860290
- Book Title
- Red Army Faction : Projectiles for the People-A Documentary History, Red Army Faction, a Documentary History : Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Europe / Germany, Military / World War II, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 27.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 736 Pages
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The first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction ever made available in English. Projectiles for the People starts its story in the days following World War II, showing how American imperialism worked hand in glove with the old pro-Nazi ruling class, shaping West Germany into an authoritarian anti-communist bulwark and launching pad for its aggression against Third World nations. The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then - explosively - the radical student movement and countercultural revolt of the 1960s. It was from this revolt that the Red Army Faction emerged, an underground organization devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany, in the view of establishing a tradition of illegal, guerilla resistance to imperialism and state repression. Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine. For the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and communiqu s issued by the RAF between 1970 and 1977, from Andreas Baader's prison break, through the 1972 May Offensive and the 1974 hostage-taking in Stockholm, to the desperate, and tragic, events of the "German Autumn" of 1977. The RAF's three main manifestos - The Urban Guerilla Concept, Serve the People, and Black September - are included, as are important interviews with Spiegel and le Monde Diplomatique, and a number of communiqu s and court statements explaining their actions. Providing the background information that readers will require to understand the context in which these events occurred, separate thematic sections deal with the 1976 murder of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, the 1977 Stammheim murders, the extensive use of psychological operations and false-flag attacks to discredit the guerilla, the state's use of sensory deprivation torture and isolation wings, and the prisoners' resistance to this, through which they inspired their own supporters and others on the left to take the plunge into revolutionary action. Drawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a contribution to the comrades of today - and to the comrades of tomorrow - both as testimony to those who struggled before and as an explanation as to how they saw the world, why they made the choices they made, and the price they were made to pay for having done so. With a preface by North American class war prisoner Bill Dunne, a revolutionary captured in 1979 following a shoot out with police in Seattle, Washington.
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Publisher
PM Press
ISBN-10
1604860294
ISBN-13
9781604860290
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66812952
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Book Title
Red Army Faction : Projectiles for the People-A Documentary History, Red Army Faction, a Documentary History : Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Germany, Military / World War II, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Publication Year
2013
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
736 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
27.6 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Hv6433
Reviews
"Of all the revolutionary organizations to have been forged by the so-called sixties generation, the German Red Army Faction has been perhaps the most mythologized and maligned. Here at last is their story, told in their own words through "official" communications, comprehensively assembled and available for the first time in English translation. This is essential material for anyone wishing to know what they did, why they did it, and to draw consequent lessons from their experience." --Ward Churchill, author, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, "This collection is not simply a documentary of the West German revolutionary Left at a particular point in the Cold War 1970s. It is more important for the insights it provides into the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities of waging armed struggle within the context of a wealthy, well-resourced, Western capitalist state. In this, the experiences and activities of the RAF are unique in the lessons they might teach organizers in Western capitalist milieus. In our own context, it is likely that future conditions of radical social change, and certainly revolutionary struggles, will more closely approximate those engaged by the RAF in 1970s West Germany than the much more influential examples of Russia in 1917 or Spain in 1936." --Jeff Shantz, Upping the Anti "The editors of this work, J. Smith and André Moncourt, have created an intelligently political work that honestly discusses the politics of the Red Army Faction during its early years. Their commentary explains the theoretical writings of the RAF from a left perspective and puts their politics and actions in the context of the situation present in Germany and the world at the time. It is an extended work that is worth the commitment required to read and digest it. Not only a historical document, the fact that it is history provides us with the ability to comprehend the phenomenon that was the RAF in ways not possible thirty years ago" --Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch (on Volume 1), "Of all the revolutionary organizations to have been forged by the so-called sixties generation, the German Red Army Faction has been perhaps the most mythologized and maligned. Here at last is their story, told in their own words through "official" communications, comprehensively assembled and available for the first time in English translation. This is essential material for anyone wishing to know what they did, why they did it, and to draw consequent lessons from their experience." -Ward Churchill, author, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2008-929110
Dewey Decimal
322.420943, 322.4/20943
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Kerseplebedeb Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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