Records
Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back — Diana Block (2009)
Memoir by Diana Block — a longtime PFOC member and one of the four women (with Donna Willmott, Claude Marks, and Robert McBride) who lived underground in the 1980s after being named as material witnesses in the 1986 Chicago grand jury investigating the FALN-PRO/PFOC alleged conspiracy to free Oscar López Rivera. The most detailed first-person account of PFOC...
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906–1926)
The 1955 autobiography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn covering her early life and her organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World from the Spokane free-speech fights of 1909 through the Lawrence and Paterson textile strikes, the Joe Hill defense, the Tom Mooney case, the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign, the WWI Espionage Act prisoner defense, and the founding of...
The Uprising — Raymond Luc Levasseur (Marion Prison, May 1992)
Raymond Luc Levasseur's May 1992 essay written from his cell at Marion Federal Prison in the immediate aftermath of the Los Angeles Uprising. Levasseur, a captured United Freedom Front leader serving 45 years for the 1976–1984 bombing campaign in support of Puerto Rican independence, anti-apartheid struggle, and Central American liberation movements, draws e...