The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History, Volume 1
Page 76
Tupamaros-Munich 171, 583
Tupamaros-West Berlin 46, 171, 583, 585, 587, 588
Turkey; and FRG 131, 212
anti-German protests (1977) 523
mentioned by RAF 125, 131, 179, 183, 212, 213, 226
SAWIO skyjacking (1977, Mogadishu) 481, 482, 484, 505, 608
Über den bewaffneten Kampf in Westeuropa. See Regarding the Armed Struggle in West Europe
Uganda 440
Ulbricht, Walther 551
Ulmer, Helmut 577
undogmatic left 43, 200, 435, 456, 534–535, 538–540. See also Sozialistisches Büro
See also Jusos
See also spontis
attitude towards antinuclear movement 450
antisemitism 198, 440
and guerilla 201, 326–327, 388, 442–443, 459, 535, 538, 540, 591
United Nations 401, 431, 478, 498
United Nations Charter 176
United Peoples Liberation Army 360
United States. See also Marshall Plan
See also CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
See also military bases, U.S.
anticommunism 197
economy 129, 142, 149, 209
and FRG 11, 308, 379, 413–415, 424, 426, 427, 431, 467, 497, 501
Gulf War 620
imperialism 12, 31, 131, 207, 209, 212, 232, 414, 426, 439
mentioned by RAF 302, 359, 367, 501
mentioned by SAWIO 503
postwar occupation 4, 4–5, 309, 322, 415, 425
radical left 508
support for Israel 192
women’s movement 42
University of Homburg/Sarre 319, 411
Urbach, Peter 41, 53, 577, 583, 584
U.S. Military Intelligence 601
van der Lubbe, Marinus 120–121
Varon, Jeremy 33
Verfassungsschutz 38, 116, 425, 591
attempt to bribe Croissant’s secretary 473, 603
Berufsverbot 116
bugs RAF cells 596, 597
Celle hole (1978) 528
“firefight” with Proll and Grashof (1971) 60
on Kinkel Initiative 621
on Meinhof 386
mentioned by RAF 134, 154, 400, 415, 421, 425
on RAF women 535
works with Verena Becker 614, 615
Verfassungsschutzgesetz 229
Viehmann, Klaus 52
Viet Cong, mentioned by RAF 90, 174, 218, 219
Vietnam 480, 484, 505
Vietnam War 35, 166, 581, 601. See also RAF (Red Army Faction): attack on U.S. Army V Corps (1972)
See also RAF (Red Army Faction): attack on USAREUR in Heidelberg (1972)
See also APO (Außerparlamentarische Opposition): anti-Vietnam war
antiwar movement mentioned by RAF 90, 91
mentioned by RAF 89, 206, 207, 214, 232, 414, 430
Viett, Inge 527, 577, 614, 628
arrested (1990) 620
escapes from prison (1976) 602
in the GDR 614
released (1997) 625
release demanded 440
trial (1992) 622
on women’s movement 536
Vigier, Jean-Pierre 382
Violleau, Francis 614
Vogel, Andreas 242, 577
Vogel, Bernhard 619
Vogel, Hans-Jochen 231, 265
Voigt, Günther 54, 85
Wackernagel, Christof 527, 577
captured (1977) 527–528, 609
trial (1980) 613
Wagenbach, Klaus 64, 460–461, 577
Wagner, Rolf Clemens 527, 577, 600, 612, 627
Boock’s Lies (1988) 527
captured (1978, Yugoslavia) 529, 610, 611
captured (1979) 613
prison 624
released (2003) 626
split in the RAF 623
trial (1985) 617
trial (1993) 624
Walser, Martin 265
Wannersdorfer, Claudia 617, 618, 621
Wassermann (Braunschweig Court of Appeals) 378
Watson, George 197–199, 544
Weber, Jürgen 441
Wegener, Ulrich 193
Wehner, Herbert 148
Weinrich, Johannes 339, 482, 561, 577
Weissbecker, Tommy 123, 577, 587
death mentioned by RAF 124, 175, 183, 233
killed by police (1972) 114, 589
and RAF 587
Weiss, Peter 597
Weizsäcker, Richard von 621, 624
Die Welt 129, 533, 553
Wessel, Ulrich 334, 577, 597
West Berlin 29–30, 46
draft dodgers 30, 115
West Berlin Senate. See Berlin Senate West Berlin Supreme Court 262, 595
West Berlin Technical University 257
West Berlin Women’s Center 445, 446
Westmoreland, William 81
Weyer, Willy 103, 104, 139
Wieland Kommune 581
Wischnewski, Hans Jürgen 480, 484, 485, 578, 607, 608
mentioned by RAF 232, 501
Wisniewski, Stefan 578, 627
Buback assassination 614, 627
captured (1978) 529, 610
death of Holger Meins 262
released (1999) 626
on SAWIO skyjacking (1977, Mogadishu) 482, 485
Schleyer kidnapping 627
trial (1981) 614, 623
Witter, Hermann 241, 319, 411, 578
Wolf, Markus 4
Women Against Imperialist War 536
Women’s liberation movement 390, 437, 444–448, 529–530, 535–536
abortion right struggle 445–447, 535
attitude towards antinuclear movement 450
in APO 42, 53, 444, 582–583
facing repression 535
attitude towards the RAF 537–538
Women’s Vacation House (Gaiganz) 535
Woodward, Ronald 165
working class 7–10, 29, 93, 94. See also strikes
See also labor aristocracy
in APO 37, 44
displaced persons 8–9
mentioned by RAF 126, 143–146, 149, 309
women 8
Wunder 373
Wurster, Georg 470, 578, 604
Yom Kippur war (1973) 199
youth culture (1950s-60s) 24–25, 30–31
youth culture (1960s-70s) 25–26, 31, 44, 51
Yugoslavia 529, 610, 611
ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) 139, 140, 146
Zeis, Peter 241, 341, 419, 578
Zentralblatt für Neorochirurgie 412
Zerschlagt die Wohlstandsinseln der iii. Welt 143
Ziegler, Geert 263
Zimmerman, Eduard 103
Zimmerman, Ernst 617
Zimmermann (CSU) 533
Zimmermann, Friedrich 87
Zimmermann (journalist) 379
Zitzlaff, Inge Wienke 386, 388, 389, 558, 578
Zoebe, Gerhard 70
Zühlke, Undine 258
Zundel, Ernst 63
THE AUTHORS
André Moncourt is the pseudonym of a writer with his political roots in the movements of the seventies and eighties.
J. Smith is the pseudonym of an activist who has been involved in the radical left for over twenty years.
Both feel very lucky to have had a chance to tell this story.
THE TYPE
This title heads for the introductory sections of this book, as well as the text in sidebars, is set in Avenir, a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988. The title heads for RAF documents have been set in ITC American Typewriter Std.
The textface chosen for the body of this book is Sabon, a Garamond face designed by Jan Tschichold in 1964.
As a young typographer in the 1920s, Tschichold was a fan of the Bauhaus style, and had quite the collection of posters from the Soviet Union. For these sins he was arrested by the gestapo in 1933 and all copies of his books were banned “for the protection of the
German people.” Unlike so many others, he managed to be released, and fled to Switzerland, where he lived for the rest of his life.
KERSPLEBEDEB PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION
CP 63560
CCCP Van Horne
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3W 3H8
www.kersplebedeb.com
info@kersplebedeb.com
Since 1998 Kersplebedeb has been an important source of radical literature and agit prop materials.
The project has a non-exclusive focus on anti-patriarchal and anti-imperialist politics, framed within an anticapitalist perspective. A special priority is given to writings regarding armed struggle in the metropole, and the continuing struggles of political prisoners and prisoners of war.
ABOUT PM
PM Press was founded at the end of 2007 by a small collection of folks with decades of publishing, media, and organizing experience. PM co-founder Ramsey Kanaan started AK Press as a young teenager in Scotland almost 30 years ago and, together with his fellow PM Press co-conspirators, has published and distributed hundreds of books, pamphlets, CDs, and DVDs. Members of PM have founded enduring book fairs, spearheaded victorious tenant organizing campaigns, and worked closely with bookstores, academic conferences, and even rock bands to deliver political and challenging ideas to all walks of life. We’re old enough to know what we’re doing and young enough to know what’s at stake.
We seek to create radical and stimulating fiction and non-fiction books, pamphlets, t-shirts, visual and audio materials to entertain, educate and inspire you. We aim to distribute these through every available channel with every available technology - whether that means you are seeing anarchist classics at our bookfair stalls; reading our latest vegan cookbook at the café; downloading geeky fiction e-books; or digging new music and timely videos from our website.
PM Press is always on the lookout for talented and skilled volunteers, artists, activists and writers to work with. If you have a great idea for a project or can contribute in some way, please get in touch.
PM Press
PO Box 23912
Oakland CA 94623
510-658-3906
www.pmpress.org
PM
FRIENDS OF PM
These are indisputably momentous times – the financial system is melting down globally and the Empire is stumbling. Now more than ever there is a vital need for radical ideas.
In the year since its founding – and on a mere shoestring – PM Press has risen to the formidable challenge of publishing and distributing knowledge and entertainment for the struggles ahead. We have published an impressive and stimulating array of literature, art, music, politics, and culture. Using every available medium, we’ve succeeded in connecting those hungry for ideas and information to those putting them into practice.
Friends of PM allows you to directly help impact, amplify, and revitalize the discourse and actions of radical writers, filmmakers, and artists. It provides us with a stable foundation from which we can build upon our early successes and provides a much-needed subsidy for the materials that can’t necessarily pay their own way.
It’s a bargain for you too. For a minimum of $25 a month (we encourage more, needless to say), you’ll get all the audio and video (over a dozen CDs and DVDs in our first year) or all of the print (also over a dozen in our first year). Or for $40 you get everything published in hard copy PLUS the ability to purchase any/all items you’ve missed at a 50% discount. And what could be better than the thrill of receiving a monthly package of cutting edge political theory, art, literature, ideas and practice delivered to your door?
Your card will be billed once a month, until you tell us to stop. Or until our efforts succeed in bringing the revolution around. Or the financial meltdown of Capital makes plastic redundant. Whichever comes first.
For more information on the Friends of PM, and about sponsoring particular projects, please go to www.pmpress.org, or contact us at info@pmpress.org.
RECOMMENDED FROM PM PRESS
The Angry Brigade
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain’s First Urban Guerilla Group
* * *
Produced by Gordon Carr for the BBC
PM Press 2008
UPC 760137482093
DVD 60 minutes
Extra: “The Persons Unknown”
(1980, 22 minutes)
* * *
$ 19.95
Produced in 1973, this documentary covers the roots of the Angry Brigade in the revolutionary ferment of the 1960s, folowing their armed campaign and the police investigation. Extensively researched—among both the libertarian opposition and the police—this remains the essential study of Britain’s first urban guerilla group.
Let Freedom Ring
A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
* * *
Edited by Matt Meyer
Foreword by Nobel Peace Laureate
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
PM Press • Kersplebedeb 2008
ISBN 978-1-60486-035-1
912 pages paperback
* * *
$37.95
Represented here—in over one hundred documents from the past 20 years—are prisoners from the movements that have most challenged the U.S. empire from within: Black Panthers and other Black liberation fighters, Puerto Rican independentistas, Indigenous sovereignty activists, white anti-imperialists, environmental and animal rights militants, Arab and Muslim activists, war resisters, and others.
The Angola 3
Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
* * *
Produced by Scott Crow and Ann Harkness
Narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal
PM Press 2008
ISBN 978-1-60486-020-7
DVD 109 minutes
* * *
$19.95
The story of the three men who organized the Black Panther Party’s only prison chapter. They were subsequently framed and subjected to decades of solitary confinement. This is their story.
From the Bottom of the Heap
The autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
* * *
by Robert Hillary King
introduction by Dr. Terry Kupers, MD, MSP
PM Press 2008
ISBN 978-1-60486-039-9
224 pages hardcover
* * *
$24.95
Just a teenager when he entered the Louisiana prison system, King was framed in retaliation for organizing against brutality on the inside, and condemned to spend 29 years in isolation as one of the “Angola 3.” In 2001, the state grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free.
RECOMMENDED FROM KERSPLEBEDEB
Prison Round Trip
“Every person who aspires to revolutionary status has an obligation to struggle in whatever community s/he finds him or herself. Klaus shows that in this obligation is the key to surviving imprisonment.” —Bill Dunne
* * *
by Klaus Viehmann
preface by Bill Dunne
Kersplebedeb • PM Press 2009
ISBN 978-1-60486-082-5
28 pages pamphlet
* * *
$4.95
A reflection on prison life and how to keep one’s sanity and political integrity behind bars. Grappling with themes of consciousness, the nature of freedom, and what it means to be alive, Klaus Viehmann wrote this essay ten years after being released from prison, having completing a 15-year sentence for his involvement in urban guerrilla activities in Germany in the 1970s.
Jailbreak out of History
the re-biography of Harriet Tubman
* * *
by Butch Lee
Kersplebedeb 2000
ISBN 0-9731432-0-7
87 pages paperback
* * *
$8.75
Firmly re-rooting Harriet Tubman in the context of patriarchy, race, class, and armed struggle. A fascinating, and much needed, examination
of the woman and her times. At a time when violence against women of color is at the center of world politics, uncovering the censored story of one Amazon points to answers that have nothing to do with government programs, police, or patriarchal politics.
Kuwasi Balagoon: a soldier’s story
writings by a revolutionary
New Afrikan anarchist
* * *
with contributions by Sundiata Acoli, David Gilbert, J. Sakai, Meg Starr, and others
Kersplebedeb 2003
ISBN
125 pages paperback
* * *
$15.00
Kuwasi Balagoon was a defendant in the notorious Panther 21 frame-up; after acquittal he joined the underground Black Liberation Army. A guerilla fighter, an anarchist, and a proponent of New Afrikan independence, he died in prison of AIDS related complications in 1986. This is the most complete collection of his writings ever assembled.
We were so terribly consistent…
A Conversation about the History of the RAF
* * *
Stefan Wisniewski interviewed by taz
introduction by André Moncourt and J. Smith
Kersplebedeb 2009
ISBN 1-894946-08-1
44 page pamphlet
* * *
$3.00
Stefan Wisniewski joined the Red Army Faction shortly after the death of a RAF prisoner in 1974. By 1977, he was participating in a campaign of assassination and kidnapping that would shake Germany to its core. In this candid interview, conducted in 1997, he looks back on his generation’s revolt and the RAF, while honestly grappling with the errors the guerilla committed during its struggle against imperialism.