Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD BY BILL DUNNE -- A WORD FROM RUSSELL "MAROON" SHOATS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TRANSLATORS' NOTE -- PREFACE -- ACRONYM KEY -- GERMAN TERMS -- 1 "DEMOCRACY" COMES TO DEUTSCHLAND:POSTFASCIST GERMANY AND THECONTINUING APPEAL OF IMPERIALISM -- not wanted in the model: the kpd -- 2 THE RE-EMERGENCE OFREVOLUTIONARY POLITICS IN WEST GERMANY -- the old left and the new reality -- 3 TAKING UP THE GUN -- Faced With This Justice System, We Can't Be Bothered Defending Ourselves (Thorwald Proll, October 1968) -- Build the Red Army! (June 5, 1970) -- The Urban Guerilla Concept (April 1971) -- 4 BUILDING A BASE AND "SERVING THE PEOPLE" -- the socialist patients' collective -- Andreas Baader: Letter to the Press (January 24, 1972) -- Serve the People: The Urban Guerilla and Class Struggle (April 1972) -- on the treatment of traitors -- This is Edelgard Graefer… (March 27, 1972) -- 5 THE MAY OFFENSIVE:BRINGING THE WAR HOME -- For the Victory of the People of Vietnam (May 14, 1972) -- Attacks in Augsburg and Munich (May 16, 1972) -- Attack on Judge Buddenberg (May 20, 1972) -- Attack on the Springer Building (May 20, 1972) -- Attack on the Heidelberg Headquarters of the U.S. Army in Europe (May 25, 1972) -- To the News Editors of the West German Press (May 28, 1972) -- Regarding the Fascist Bomb Threats Against Stuttgart (May 29, 1972) -- Statement to the Red Aid Teach-In (May 31, 1972) -- 6 BLACK SEPTEMBER:A STATEMENT FROM BEHIND BARS -- the appeal of the fedayeen: to all the free people of the world -- The Black September Action in Munich: Regarding the Strategy for Anti-Imperialist Struggle (November 1972) -- 7 STAYING ALIVE: SENSORY DEPRIVATION,TORTURE, AND THE STRUGGLE BEHIND BARS -- the lawyers -- horst mahler after the raf -- Second Hunger Strike (May 8, 1973).

Provisional Program of Struggle for the Political Rights of Imprisoned Workers (September 1974) -- Third Hunger Strike (September 13, 1974) -- The Expulsion of Horst Mahler (Monika Berberich, September 27, 1974) -- Holger Meins' Report on Force-Feeding (October 11, 1974) -- Holger Meins' Last Letter (November 1, 1974) -- Interview with Spiegel Magazine (January 1975) -- Andreas Baader Regarding Torture (June 18, 1975) -- 8 A DESPERATE BID TO FREE THE PRISONERS: THE STOCKHOLM ACTION -- Letter from the RAF to the RAF Prisoners (February 2, 1975) -- Occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm (April 24, 1975) -- Defense Attorney Siegfried Haag Goes Underground (May 11, 1975) -- 9 SHADOW BOXING:COUNTERING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE -- "We know why he's saying it" (Brigitte Mohnhaupt, July 22, 1976) -- The Bombing of the Bremen Train Station (December 9, 1974) -- The Nature of the Stammheim Trial: The Prisoners Testify (August 19, 1975) -- No Bomb in Munich Central Station (September 14, 1975) -- The Bombing of the Hamburg Train Station (September 23, 1975) -- The Bombing of the Cologne Train Station (November 1975) -- 10 THE MURDER OF ULRIKE MEINHOF -- ulrike's brain -- Jan-Carl Raspe: On the Murder of Ulrike Meinhof (May 11, 1976) -- Fragment Regarding Structure (Ulrike Meinhof, 1976) -- Two Letters to Hanna Krabbe (Ulrike Meinhof, March 19 & 23, 1976) -- Letter to the Hamburg Prisoners (Ulrike Meinhof, April 13, 1976) -- Interview with Le Monde Diplomatique (June 10, 1976) -- 11 MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE ON THE LEFT…(AN INTERMISSION OF SORTS) -- 12 & BACK TO THE RAF… -- RZ Letter to the RAF Comrades (December 1976) -- Monika Berberich Responds to the Alleged RZ Letter (January 10, 1977) -- Andreas Baader: On the Geneva Convention (June 2, 1977) -- 13 DARING TO STRUGGLE, FAILING TO WIN -- Fourth Hunger Strike (March 29, 1977).

The Assassination of Attorney General Siegfried Buback (April 7, 1977) -- Statement Calling Off the Fourth Hunger Strike (April 30, 1977) -- The Assassination of Jürgen Ponto (August 14, 1977) -- Statement Breaking Off the Fifth Hunger Strike (September 2, 1977) -- The Attack on the BAW (September 3, 1977) -- The Schleyer Communiqués (September-October, 1977) -- Operation Kofr Kaddum (SAWIO, October 13, 1977) -- SAWIO Ultimatum (October 13, 1977) -- Final Schleyer Communiqué (October 19, 1977) -- 77: living with the fallout -- 14 THE STAMMHEIM DEATHS -- 15 ON THE DEFENSIVE -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX I: EXCERPTS FROM THEFRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG -- APPENDIX II: THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONOF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RAF PRISONERS -- APPENDIX III: THE FRG AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- APPENDIX IV: THE GENEVA CONVENTION: EXCERPTS -- APPENDIX V: STRANGE STORIES:PETER HOMANN AND STEFAN AUST -- APPENDIX VI: THE GERMAN GUERILLA'SPALESTINIAN ALLIES: WADDI HADDAD'S PFLP (EO) -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- ARMED STRUGGLE IN W. GERMANY: A CHRONOLOGY -- NOTE ON SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Fm 1 -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Appendix.

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 communiqués 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 communiqués 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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