[THE RAF IS BORN - THE RARE RAF FOUNDING MANIFESTO] Rote Armee Fraktion: Das Konzept Stadtguerilla [Red Army Faction: The urban guerrilla concept]

[Meinhof, Ulrike]

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Amsterdam: Niemec Verlag, [April 1971]. First printing of the small-format variant in quarto (30.7 × 21.3 cm). Stapled and with contemporary red adhesive tape along spine fold; 15, [1] pp. with RAF logo printed on the titlepage (the variant without the star on the title page and with hectographed page pagination). Faint horizontal crease throughout; last blank page somewhat stained; leaves somewhat toned; text with some underlinings; else very good. First programmatic position paper of the Red Army Faction (RAF), in which they justify the violent liberation of Andreas Baader from prison (this action is generally regarded as the birth of the terrorist group) and announce their future terrorist actions in a manifesto. For the first time, the group refers to itself as the "Rote Armee Fraktion" (Red Army Faction) in this text written by Ulrike Meinhof, and this is also the first instance where the group's distinctive emblem appears in print. The copy offered here in a version (still) without the five-pointed star consisting of halftone dots. In addition to the very rare small-format version in quarto offered here, the large-format folio version (also without a star), which is more frequently found on the market, was printed later as a supplement to "Agit 883" (see: >htt ps://socialhistoryportal.o rg/sites/default/files/Index_RAF_Collection_1.p df.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [THE RAF IS BORN - THE RARE RAF FOUNDING MANIFESTO] Rote Armee Fraktion: Das Konzept Stadtguerilla [Red Army Faction: The urban guerrilla concept]
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cold War
  • Communism
  • Germany