[AnnaPurna Consulting is currently away; Research Director, Steve Thomsan, is the author of this blog]

I have recently finished reading Baader-Meinhof, Stefan Aust’s fascinating account of the lives, ideas and violence of the Red Army Faction (RAF). For younger readers, the RAF was a West German terrorist group responsible for a spate of murders, kidnappings and plane hijackings in the 1970s and 80s, espousing a nihilistic ideological cocktail of Marxism, libertarianism and fanatical adherence to the Palestinian cause. [Read more…]