Margrit Schiller was a member of the Red Army Faction in the early 1970s, and as a result spent most of the decade in West German prisons. Released in 1979, she moved to Cuba in 1985, and then to Uruguay in 1993. After ten years in Montevideo she returned in Germany. She is now living in Berlin. She described her experiences in Cuba and Uruguay in her memoir So siehst du gar nicht aus! (2011).

Ann Hansen served seven years of a life sentence in federal prisons for acts carried out as part of the group Direct Action in Canada. She is a prison abolition activist and author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes.

Osvaldo Bayer (1927–2018) was an author, journalist, and scriptwriter who was exiled from Argentina during the years of military dictatorship. His works include The Anarchist Expropriators, Anarchism & Violence, and Rebellion in Patagonia.

J. Smith and André Moncourt are the coeditors of the Red Army Faction Documentary History series, comprising Projectiles for the People (Vol. 1) and Dancing with Imperialism (Vol. 2), with a third volume forthcoming.

J. Smith and André Moncourt are the coeditors of the Red Army Faction Documentary History series, comprising Projectiles for the People (Vol. 1) and Dancing with Imperialism (Vol. 2), with a third volume forthcoming.