With the Commando Patsy O'Hara [1],
we shot the President of the BDLI (Bundesverband der deutschen luft,
raumfahrt-, und ausrustuiigsindustrie)[2]
and head
of the MTU [3], Ernst
Zimmermann.
Multinational capital can only avoid a new spiral in the cycle of
crisis-reconstruction-crisis, it can only secure the conditions of
exploitation, if it plans, prepares
and carries out military aggression on all fronts and unites the
trilateral
bloc - USA, West Europe, Japan — in a common strategy to solve the
economic
crisis.
The US military strategy, as the extreme expression of the policy of
the imperialist chain of States, is an example of the extent of the
ideological-economic-military crisis of the system and of the search
for a strategic reconstruction of
capital. The "New NATO Doctrine" is a precise expression of capital's
plan:
electronics, warfare, "intelligent weapons systems," space weapons and
the
multiplying of the conventional equipment of NATO armies are meant to
open
up a "billion markets" for multinational capital, as the BDLI says,
and,
at the same time, to guarantee military supremacy.
For capital operating in the FRG [4],
the military-industrial complex is instrumental in consolidating this
strategy and gaining control of the global market , with the objective
of securing complete dominance for US capital, as well as the objective
of achieving
economic penetration by the FRG. In a common attack with France, they
revolted,
establishing new standards by which they left themselves no alternative
but
subjugating or containing the others.
The role of the military-industrial complex in the capitalist
reconstruction of the central areas will mean a decisive role for
research and production of new technologies, electronics and weapons
for a war economy. Political power will be directly
involved in this accumulation-formation,
as is all too obvious in the current situation. The economic-political
organization of this faction of capital, the BDLI, has established the
interests of the military-industrial complex here, in this country, on
the West European
level and internationally. The European setting is now key. The
conditions
necessary are the abolition of the arms controls established for the
FRG
within the WEU [5], military
cooperation
with other European NATO states, especially France, and the provision
of
more money to the defense industries for research.
By attacking the pillars of imperialist power in the FRG and West
Europe, we are intervening in the sharpening crisis with the goal of
impacting its course and resolution in the interests of
the offensive of
the wars of liberation.
The terrain upon which the European proletariat can reconstruct itself
on the basis of class is the struggle for the complete transformation
of
the relations of production, for the unity of the revolutionary front
and
for the organization of the class war in West Europe.
THE WEST EUROPEAN GUERRILLA IS SHAKING THE IMPERIALIST CENTER
Red Army Faction
February 1st 1985
Footnotes
N.B. All footnotes in this document were
added by the translator and editor. None are originally from the RAF.
[1] Patsy O'Hara - Irish National Liberation Army
Prisoner of War. He died on a hunger strike for political status in
May 81. This was the same hunger strike that claimed the life of Bobby
Sands
and nine other POWs, as well as Patsy. [return to text]
[2] BDLI - Federal Union of German Aerospace- and
Heavy Industries. [return to text]
[3] MTU - a West German arms manufacturer. [return to text]
[4] FRG - Federal Republic of Germany, West
Germany. [return to text]
