[REVOLUTIONARY CELLS – GERMAN LEFTIST TERRORISM] Revolutionärer Zorn: Zeitung der Revolutionären Zelle [Revolutionary anger: paper of the Revolutionary Cell]. Nos. 1–3 (of 9). – WITH: Der Weg zum Erfolg: RZ [The way to success: RZ. Reprint of all published issues of "Revolutionärer Zorn" as a camouflaged publication].
[Germany], May 1975 – May 1977. Folio and quartos (44 × 31 and 30.5 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers: 4; 12; 32, [2] pp. with photographic illustrations. Old horizontal folds; somewhat toned; else about very good. – Munich: Bernhard & Graefe [fictitious place and publisher], [ca. 1986/87]. Octavo (14.4 × 10 cm). Original pictorial cardboard; pp. [2], 9–453, [1] pp. with numerous illustrations. Slight signs of wear, occasional light stains; still about very good. Item #55271
Three issues and an early reprint (disguised as a Donald Duck comic book) 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 Cells were similar to the RAF, which they supported in their 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.
DadA-Periodika, Dok.-Nr.: P2-P0000829.
As of March 2026, KVK, OCLC only show one run in North America.
Price: €450.00