Red Youth (Netherlands) Red Youth (Netherlands) Red Youth () was a communist organization in the Netherlands. It originated in the group around the periodical "Rode Jeugd", which had been started by the pro-China "Rode Vlag"-grouping in 1966. In October 1967 the group around "Rode Jeugd" broke away, and formed their own organisation, Red Youth. Lucien van Hoesel (born 1950) became the national secretary of Red Youth. Inside Red Youth two wings emerged. On one side stood the 'terrorists', who were inspired by the Red Army Faction ("Rote Armee Fraktion") and who saw the strategy of urban guerrilla warfare as a path to follow
Red Army Faction the name of "Agit883 (Magazine for Agitation and Social Practice)", demanding for a call to arms and a building of the Red Army. The article ended with the words, "Develop the class struggles. Organize the proletariat. Start the armed resistance!" Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof then went to Jordan, where they trained with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) guerrillas and looked to the Palestinian cause for inspiration and guidance. But RAF organization and outlook were also partly modeled on the Uruguayan Tupamaros movement, which had developed as an urban resistance movement, effectively