Red Army Faction (RAF)

This volume collects key primary documents from the Red Army Faction across its generational arc, from foundational theoretical texts to communiqués, prison writings, and later statements of reassessment. Framed as organizational material rather than historical artifact, these documents show how the RAF sought to construct and reproduce itself as an “urban guerrilla” formation within the imperial core. Read in sequence, they illuminate the pressures of clandestine organization—discipline, communication, legitimacy, and escalation—and the ways in which these pressures shaped both the organization’s persistence and its eventual dissolution.