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Welcome to the NPPC Archive. This Archive is a searchable index of the National Political Prisoner Coalition’s records: prisoner profiles, case files, movement periodicals, court documents, and oral histories. It collects, in one place, the materials that document the history of U.S. political imprisonment from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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Liberation Calendar 1978

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Calendar published by the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization including historic events in left history. Each month highlights a different struggle, ranging from national liberation movements to prison rebellions, with an emphasis on New Afrika.

Notes from a New Afrikan P.O.W. Journal Book Five

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Contents: Introduction; We STILL Charge Genocide; Afterword: Combat Colonial Violence—Heighten The National Democratic Revolution: - Foundation - Toward A New Style Of Work - The Struggle Is For Land And Socialism - The National Democratic Revolution - The Three Weapons of the National Democratic Revolution: The Party, The Army, The National United Front

Notes from a New Afrikan POW Book Four

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateMay 1, 1980 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Vita Wa Watu; Debray Re-Visited

Notes from a New Afrikan POW Book One

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

On Transforming the Colonial/Criminal Mentality; Afrikan POW's and the United Nations; SPO "Prison Movement" Discussion Paper No. 1: Contributions Toward the National Prisoners Movement; SPO "Prison movement" Discussion paper No. 2: The "Prison Movement" and National Liberation.

Notes from a New Afrikan POW Book Seven

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Kamp Documents; Coming of Age (Safiya Asya Bukhari); On Transforming the Colonial and Criminal Mentality; In the Spirit of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark: Carry on the Tradition; Excepts from: Thoughts on Consolidation, Ideology, and Organization: A Discussion Paper.

Notes from a New Afrikan POW Book Six

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Who Killed McDuffie? Poem by Hakim Al-Jamil; Against the Wind - A Response To: Organizational Connection of the Mass Front and the Armed Front; Iranian Excerpts: On the Necessity of armed Struggle and Refutation of the Theory of "Survival" by Amir Pouyan; Armed Struggle: The Road to the Mobilization of the Masses by Bizhan Jazani

Notes from a New Afrikan POW Book Three

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Thoughts on the Eve of a New Year - 15 ADM; Are we Asking the Rights Questions?; From one Generation to the Next!

Notes from a New Afrikan POW Book Two

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

The Thirteenth Amendment: Instrument of Legalized Slavery and the Re-subjugation of New Afrika; We Still Charge Genocide; Toward Clarity on CC's, PP's, and POW's; On Revolutionary Politics; On Concrete Solidarity; Message to Afrikan American Women for Positive and Productive Change

Prison Movement Discussion Paper #1

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateSeptember 13, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

This informational document discusses the need for new analysis and theory in the prison movement of its time. The paper finds that the prison system was used to uphold and carry out capitalist and imperialist agendas, thus connecting the prison movement to anti-imperialist movements around the world. The author of this document sees that there is a dialecti...

So that We Don't Fool Ourselves -- Again: Study Notes on Secure Communication

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Introduction by Atilba Shanna; Notes on Secure Communication by Seldom Seen; Reflections on Victor Serge's What Everyone Should Know About (State) Repression by Ata Kawali; So That We Don't Fool Ourselves -- Again by Seldom Seen; The Greater need -- An Open Letter by Iyapo Tsukama

Stateville Prisoners Organization Discussion Paper #2

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateSeptember 13, 1977 PublishersStateville Prisoners Organization

Previously a draft copy was published by the Stateville Prisoners Organization (SPO) entitled "Contributions Toward the National Prisoners Movement". Criticism and input was welcomed from comrades and a few strong responses were received. This document is a response to said criticisms in which the SPO explains and defends their position and use of language.

The Fuse No. 10

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateSeptember 1, 1979 PublishersNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization

The People are the Best Judges

The Fuse No. 11

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateSeptember 28, 1979 PublishersNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization

"The People Are the Best Judges! Part 2" is a continuation of an article printed previously that rallies the people in supporting the Pontiac Brothers and judge the evidence put forth by the state. It continues by stating the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization's (NAPO) position on the struggle to free the Pontiac Brothers. "The Struggle to Free Jomo Joka Omo...

The Fuse No. 12

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateOctober 12, 1979 PublishersNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization

"Build Campaign to Dismiss Pontiac 31 Indictments" discusses the New Afrikan Prisoner Organization's (NAPO) decision to support the "Stateville Four" and expose the political frame-up enacted by the state of Illinois. As a result, the charges against the Four were dismissed. The charges brought against the 31 Pontiac Brothers was another example of this oppr...

The Fuse No. 13 (2)

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateOctober 30, 1980 PublishersNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Extended narrative on revolutionary practice.

The Fuse No. 8

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateApril 1, 1978 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

(Formerly Stateville Raps) Articles include War for the Cities Part III, Armed Struggle and National Liberation, Menad: A Constant Reign of Terror, Why Assata was Convicted, more.

The Fuse No. 9

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateAugust 1, 1979 PublishersNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization

"Update on the Pontiac 31" provides an update on the case against the Pontiac Brothers. Seventeen of them were moved to Chicago where their trials will be held. The article lists the charges against some of the Pontiac Brothers and asserts the fact that the state is trying to rush the trials before the prisoners can gain support. The situation of the Pontiac...

Vita Wa Watu Book Nine

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateAugust 1, 1986 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Notes on the Link Between Oppression of New Afrikan Women and the New Afrikan National Liberation Revolution Part One: The Origin and Nature of Women's Oppression; ending Colonial Police Violence in the African Community by Community Self-Defense Program, NY; Organization Means Commitment; On the RNA and the Provisional Government.

Vita Wa Watu Book Ten

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateApril 1, 1987 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Reflections on the Resurgence of Student Activist; African Liberation Day 15th Anniversary Forum and Rally; Political education Course Materials Checklist; Building shields of Silence and Conviction; Where Do Correct Ideas come From? Revolutionary Morality: An Overview; On Revolutionary Morality; Resources; Characteristics (sic) o0f the Namibian Revolution;...

Vita Wa Watu: More Notes from a New Afrikan POW Journal Book Eight

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

About These Notes; Black Liberation, A Speech by James Forman; Afterwords: Notes on the Transition of the "Black Liberation" Phrase, Concept, and Movement by Mwalimu Shanna and Seldom Seen; A Letter from the Creative Image Scholarship Fund

Vita Wa Watu: New Afrikan Theoretical Journal Book Eleven

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateAugust 1, 1987 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Three Speeches by Fred Hampton; Counterintelligence Against the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party; Tasks of Cadres in Organizing Black Workers; The Role of the New Afrikan Historian; On National Democratic Revolution, Mass Organization, and Communication Networks; Capitalism and the Black Experience; On Our Use of the Word "Comrad"

Vita Wa Watu: New Afrikan Theoretical Journal Book Twelve

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateApril 1, 1988 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Contents:Notes on Cadre Policy and Cadre Development; On What it Means to "Re-Build"— Part One: re-Orientation; On what It Means to "Re-Build"— Part Two: Re-Organization.

We Still Charge Genocide: The Thirteenth Amedment: Instrument of Legalized Slavery and the Re-subjugation of New Afrika

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateAugust 31, 1977 PublishersNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization

The Thirteenth Amedment: Instrument of Legalized Slavery and the Re-subjugation of New Afrika.

Why We Support the Stateville Four: A Political Statement from the Stateville Prisoners Organization

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization PublishersStateville Prisoners Organization

A Political Statement from the Stateville Prisoners Organization.