Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

I'm your host, Dan Comrade, Red O'Shea.

And today we have on Jay Smith to talk about the Red Army faction.

This is a really interesting topic, one that I don't know a lot about.

I'll be learning along with my listeners a lot of this time.

There's a lot of fascinating history as well.

Jay Smith, would you like to introduce yourself and say a bit about your background for

those who don't know you?

Yes, sure.

I am one of two people who co-edited two books which collect documents by the Red Army faction,

by the wrath spanning from their beginnings up until roughly halfway through their existence.

We have been working for a long time now on the third volume which will bring the story

all the way up to its conclusion.

And I'm also an active member of the Radical Left in the city where I live.

Wonderful, yeah that's really interesting.

Just had a curiosity, do you have a specific tendency on the left that you identify with?

Ah, that is a very interesting question.

I'm a non-sectarian radical leftist.

I'm culturally anarchist you might say but I'm definitely not politically anarchist.

Well that's awesome.

I mean, you know here at RevLeft we are a pan leftist show we cover all different tendencies.

So regardless of what you are you're welcome here.

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