[REVOLUTIONARY CELLS ? GERMAN LEFTIST TERRORISM] Revolutionärer Zorn: Zeitung der Revolutionären Zelle [Revolutionary anger: paper of the Revolutionary Cell]. Nos. 1 (May 1975), 2 (May 1976), 3 (May 1977), 6 (Jan. 1981) and one unnumbered issue titled "Diskussionspapier" "Discussion paper" (ca. 1982), as well as two additional documents. WITH: RZ. Roter Zwerg im Lenz 78 [Red dwarf in Spring 78].

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Folded newsprint (tabloid format, 44 × 31 cm); later issues quartos (A4); 12, 12, 22, 27 pp. each. Old horizontal folds; two quarto issues with holes punched to left margin; else about very good. Four issues, as well as several related publications, of this rare journal of the West German radical leftist organization "Revolutionäre Zelle" (Revolutionary Cell), which became active on March 4, 1975 with an explosives attack on the German Constitutional Court. The second issue, from May 1976, contains a long programmatic article calling for murder and violence in the name of the movement ("Man muss so radikal sein wie die Wirklichkeit" - "We must be as radical as reality itself"). As a result, federal agents raided numerous left-allied bookstores, confiscating a large amount of anarchist publications, including this journal. For example, in March 1977 139 members of a leftist publishing association were charged with condoning crimes against the state; on January 16, 1978 a bookstore in Cologne was raided and 103 copies of "Revolutionärer Zorn" were confiscated (see Julia Böhm, Paragraph 88a StGB ? Zum Schutz des Gemeinschaftsfriedens: Der Umgang mit linker Literatur in der BRD 1976-1981, p. 28).The Revolutionary Cell was similar to the RAF, which it supported in its publications, but with a decentralized organizational structure and a desire to engage in violent activism anonymously, while continuing to lead an ostensibly normal life. While occasionally ridiculed as "after-hour activists," this approach kept members from being identified by police until the late 1990s. Their newspaper, which appeared once yearly until at least 1986, is very rare. Also included here are a flyer dated 1976 directed against the Berlin Public Transportation authority (BVG; a five-page open letter against members of the RAF; and a single issue periodical "RZ. Roter Zwerg im Lenz 78", which is not recorded in KVK, OCLC. The journal makes extensive reference to the RAF and the Revolutionäre Zelle, as well as Bewegung 2. Juni, with a photograph of Ulrike Meinhof on the rear wrapper.As of March 2024, KVK, OCLC only show no copies in the United States, only the holdings in Germany and IISG Amsterdam. Seller Inventory # P4326

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