Time with the Red Army Faction w/ Margrit Schiller

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a very special guest, Margrit Schiller! Margrit was associated early on with the Red Army Faction, before being imprisoned and tortured by the West German state, being forced into exile in Cuba and Uruguay, and then having to move back to Germany more or less against her will. A fascinating life story from someone just as committed to the struggle as ever!

Margrit Schiller is author of Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction. We highly recommend picking yourself up a copy from PM Press (https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1195). Margrit's struggles within and against this system continue, and grabbing a copy of her book is a good way to help while we are still forced to operate within capitalism.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a new Youtube show/podcast he cohosts with our friend Safie called What The Huck?!, which can be found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA7YUQWncZIB2nIeEunE31Q/ or major podcast apps at https://anchor.fm/what-the-huck. Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod. Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.1	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.7	I'm your host,
0:44.7	Henry Hukamaki, joined as usual by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing
0:49.7	today? I'm doing really well. Hope you are also. It's great to be with you. Yeah, it's nice to see you too.
0:55.1	Starting to warm up in Canada finally? A little bit. I mean, it's rainy and a little chilly today,
1:01.4	but we have turned the corner. Winter is behind us finally. Yeah, we've still got, you know,
1:07.0	threats of snow here, but, oh my goodness. you know, I'm really, really far north.
1:12.4	And also joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace
1:18.1	podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing today? Hello, I'm doing good. It's beautiful here in
1:22.7	Omaha for the time being, at least. Yeah, well, at least for one of us, we have nice weather right now. And,
1:28.0	you know, that's better than none of us having nice weather. So today, we have a very
1:33.3	interesting topic with a very interesting guest. We're going to be talking about Margaret Schiller's
1:39.3	book with Margaret Schiller, remembering the armed struggle, life in Badermeinhoff.
1:45.5	Baterminehoff, of course, being the more colloquial name for the Red Army faction.
1:50.1	Now, in this introduction, instead of doing a very long explanation of who the Red Army faction was,
1:58.1	because they existed for quite some time, actually, like it's significantly longer than a
2:02.0	lot of other clandestine guerrilla groups, particularly within imperialist countries. Instead of having
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