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This study uses critical theory to answer key gender-related questions about the Red Army Faction (RAF), which terrorised West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. The questions include: Why were women so prominent in the RAF? And what does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence, power, and gender today? The book analyses works by pivotal writers and artists that point beyond militancy and terrorism to disclose the failures of the Far Left and register the radical potential that RAF women actually forfeited

Whereas Karl Marx saw the Lumpenproletariat as lacking class consciousness and doubted that it could help advance the struggle for revolutionary freedom, Frantz Fanon identified a uniquely subversive potential in this group of dispossessed agents. This article revisits the question of the Lumpenproletariat in our current moment of global capital. It takes up Zoe Leonard's Analogue series (2007) and focuses on a sequence of photographs within it that represent the transnational traffic in used clothing— a circuit that links Shenzhen to Brooklyn to Kampala. With a close analysis of Leonard's photographs, the article argues that this American–African economy works two effects. As a commodity dump, it factors into the ruin of Ugandan textile traditions. Yet as consumers select their wares from the jumbled mass of castoffs, they fashion new styles and invent new meanings.