Records
Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's foundational text linking anarchism with Black liberation, written and revised across the late 1970s and 1980s while Ervin was a Black Panther Party-aligned political prisoner in U.S. federal custody following his hijacking conviction. Originally circulated as a movement pamphlet and republished in expanded book form (most recently by...
August Spies' Autobiography (1887)
Autobiography of August Spies — German-American anarchist, labor organizer, editor of the Chicago Arbeiter-Zeitung, and one of the Haymarket Martyrs hanged by the State of Illinois on November 11, 1887 for the May 4, 1886 Haymarket Affair bombing. Spies wrote the autobiography in his cell at the Cook County jail in 1887 prior to his execution, alongside the...
Profiles of Provocateurs
Kristian Williams's 2011 PM Press pamphlet documenting law-enforcement and informant infiltration of U.S. social movements — case studies of named provocateurs (Brandon Darby, Anna Davies, Andrew Darst, etc.) who infiltrated antiwar, Earth/Animal Liberation, and anarchist organizing, the techniques they used, and the prosecutions and entrapment cases their w...
Sacco-Vanzetti
Documentary collection on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti — Italian-American anarchist immigrants convicted of the 1920 South Braintree, Massachusetts payroll robbery and murders, tried in 1921 in what became the most internationally-publicized political-prisoner case of the early-20th-century United States. Despite a worldwide defense campa...
The Accused, The Accusers: The Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court (1886)
The closing courtroom statements of the eight Chicago anarchists convicted in connection with the May 4, 1886 Haymarket Affair: Albert Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg, Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab, and Oscar Neebe. Delivered during the August–October 1886 trial before Judge Joseph Gary in the Cook County Criminal Court, and...