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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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Prisons and Their Moral Influence on Prisoners

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsPeter Kropotkin PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Kropotkin's classic anarchist critique of the moral effects of prison on incarcerated people.

Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsEmma Goldman PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Emma Goldman's essay denouncing prisons as a social crime and failure.

Profiles of Provocateurs

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 2011 AuthorsKristian Williams PublishersPM Press

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...

Rattling the Cages: Abolition Is a Family Affair

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2025 AuthorsSharon Shoatz, Susie Day, Rochelle Bricker PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Family experiences of political imprisonment (Rattling the Cages series).

Rattling the Cages: Antifascism Behind Bars

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2024 AuthorsDavid Campbell, Alissa Azar PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Imprisoned anti-fascists in conversation (Rattling the Cages series).

Rattling the Cages: Becoming Politicized in Prison

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2024 AuthorsFarhan Ahmed, Héctor Bori Rodriguez, Josh Davidson PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Conversations on radicalization in prison (Rattling the Cages series).

Rattling the Cages: Continuing the Struggle Inside Out

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsRay Luc Levasseur, Ashanti Alston PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Long-term former political prisoners on ongoing struggle (Rattling the Cages series).

Rattling the Cages: Political Prisoners, Mass Incarceration, Abolition

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsHerman Bell, David Gilbert, Susan Rosenberg PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Long-term political prisoners Herman Bell, David Gilbert, and Susan Rosenberg on political imprisonment and abolition (Rattling the Cages series).

Rattling the Cages: Post-Prison Activism — Archiving Resistance

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsClaude Marks, Jake Conroy PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Former political prisoners Claude Marks (Resistance Conspiracy) and Jake Conroy (SHAC 7) on archiving movement history after release (Rattling the Cages series).

Rattling the Cages: Revolutionary Women Behind Bars

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsLinda Evans, Laura Whitehorn, Nicole Kissane PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Resistance Conspiracy Case defendants Linda Evans and Laura Whitehorn in conversation with Nicole Kissane on women's political imprisonment (Rattling the Cages series).

Rattling the Cages: Until All Are Free

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsJason Hammond, Jeremy Hammond PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Brothers Jason and Jeremy Hammond on anti-fascism and political imprisonment (Rattling the Cages series).

Raze the Walls: Palestine Solidarity Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsAbolition Media PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Documentation of Palestine-solidarity political prisoners on hunger strike.

Reason to Fear — The Cultural Defense of Hooty Croy

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersPatrick 'Hooty' Croy Defense Committee

Defense pamphlet on Patrick 'Hooty' Croy's cultural defense, arguing that his actions arose from generations of state violence against Native people.

Repress This

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsBay Area Anti-Repression Committee PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee's anti-repression organizing manual.

Repression Breeds Resistance

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsAkinyele Omowale Umoja PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Akinyele Umoja on state repression of Black liberation movements.

Repression Breeds Resistance: Greg Curry on the Lucasville Uprising

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsGreg Curry PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Lucasville Uprising prisoner Greg Curry on prison rebellion and ongoing repression.

Research on International Law and Black Freedom Fighters in the US (May 1990)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 1, 1990 PublishersResearch on International Law and Black Freedom Fighters in the US

May 1990 pamphlet describing the institute's work applying international legal frameworks to Black freedom fighters held in U.S. prisons.

Resist Grand Juries

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 Authors1312 Press PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

1312 Press pamphlet on grand jury resistance.

Resistance Conspiracy Case — Finding Aid

CollectionFreedom Archives PublishersFreedom Archives

Index to the Resistance Conspiracy Case archive (Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg, Tim Blunk, Laura Whitehorn, Alan Berkman).

Resistance Is Not A Crime! Stop the Political Show Trial! Drop the Charges Now!

DateJanuary 1, 1988 AuthorsResistance Conspiracy Case Defense Committee PublishersResistance Conspiracy Case Defense Committee

Defense-campaign pamphlet for the Resistance Conspiracy Case 6 (RCC6) — the May 11, 1988 federal indictment that charged Marilyn Buck, Susan Rosenberg, Linda Evans, Timothy Blunk, Laura Whitehorn, and Alan Berkman with conspiracy in connection with the November 1983 U.S. Capitol bombing and a string of other anti-imperialist actions taken in solidarity with...

Robert Seth Hayes Tri-Fold Pamphlet

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — NYC DateFebruary 6, 2017 PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

We have been made aware of an awful piece of the Governor’s budget proposal that that would affect thousands of folks in New York State (NYS) prisons, including all of the political prisoners in New York who we list in our guide .

Ronald Reed Tri-Fold Pamphlet

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — NYC DateAugust 15, 2025 PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

WHAT : Running Down the Walls – 5k Run/Walk/Jog/Bike/Hang WHEN : 2:00-7:00pm, Sunday, September 21st, 2025 WHERE : Prospect Park– Lincoln Road/East Lake Drive, east of the Terrace Bridge (see the below map for exact location) COST : $ 20 registration, participants encouraged to get sponsors (include

Ronald Reed tri-fold (NYC ABCF, October 2022)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateOctober 1, 2022 AuthorsNYC Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for Ronald Reed (earlier edition).

Ronald Reed tri-fold pamphlet (NYC ABCF, August 2025)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateAugust 1, 2025 AuthorsNYC Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for political prisoner Ronald Reed.