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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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Found 377 records

The Fundamental Requirement for Organised Safer Space

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsAnarchist Federation PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Anarchist Federation discussion of building organised safer space in radical organising.

The Incarcerated Worker (Issue 6 and Older)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsIWW Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

IWW IWOC newsletter for incarcerated workers (Issue 6 and earlier).

The International Campaign for Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners

Pamphlet outlining the international campaign to free the Puerto Rican POWs and political prisoners, with calls for unconditional amnesty and immediate release plus prisoner mailing addresses for letter-writing.

The MOVE Organization

CollectionInternet Archive PublishersInternet Archive

Pamphlet on the history of the MOVE Organization and the MOVE 9 prisoners.

The New Prisoner

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsMartin Sostre PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Martin Sostre's writings as a "new prisoner" — analyzing the political role of incarcerated militants.

The Opening Statement (Fall 2025, Issue 26 and Older)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2025 AuthorsMichigan Abolition Prisoner Support PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Michigan Abolition Prisoner Support newsletter (Issue 26 and earlier).

The Perils of Prison Mail Digitization

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsThe Final Straw Radio PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

TFSR coverage of the spread of prison-mail digitization and its censorship implications.

The Police Threw the Book at Protestors in DC but Sat and Watched White Supremacists Terrorize Charlottesville

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsAnonymous PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Anonymous essay contrasting police treatment of DC J20 protestors with their inaction in Charlottesville.

The Political Grand Jury — An Instrument of Repression

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression PublishersNew York Committee Against Grand Jury Repression

Pamphlet with background information on how a grand jury works, the political grand jury, non-collaboration, and what readers can do.

The Prisoner's Cookbook: The Iron Ghetto Gourmet

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsThe Iron Ghetto Gourmet PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Cookbook compiled by and for incarcerated people, using commissary ingredients.

The Role of Prisons in US Society — Prisons as Concentration Camps (Freedom Now)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersFreedom Now!

Freedom Now! pamphlet arguing that U.S. prisons function as concentration camps and tools of political repression.

The Soledad 7

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersSoledad 7 Defense

Defense materials for the Soledad 7, prisoners charged after the second major Soledad Prison incident.

They Gave Their Freedom!

CollectionInternational Labor Defense Year1935 AuthorsRose Baron PublishersInternational Labor Defense

A 1935 International Labor Defense pamphlet by Rose Baron — editor of Labor Defender and New York District Secretary of the ILD — documenting the work of the ILD's Prisoners' Relief Department in supporting class-war prisoners and their families, with photographs and profiles of figures such as Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro defendant Haywood Patterson, and a...

TimeCut: Indiana Prison Newsletter (Summer 2025, Issue 17 and Older)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2025 AuthorsTimeCut PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Indiana prison newsletter by and for incarcerated people (Issue 17 and earlier).

Towards a 1992 without Puerto Rican Prisoners of War or Political Prisoners

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs Year1992 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners

Brochure calling for amnesty and unconditional release of the Puerto Rican POWs and political prisoners and an end to colonialism in Puerto Rico by the 1992 quincentennial. Encourages letter-writing, joining the National Committee, and political education.

US Colonialism in Puerto Rico 1898 -

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs Year1898 PublishersFree Puerto Rico! Committee

Nine-question primer pamphlet on U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico — island history, strategic importance to the U.S., effects on Puerto Ricans on the island and in the diaspora, the independence movement, and why North Americans should oppose colonialism.

Under Lock and Key (Issue 89 and Older)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsMaoist International Ministry of Prisons PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Long-running prison newspaper from MIM(Prisons) (Issue 89 and earlier).

United Freedom Front Tri-Fold Pamphlet

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — NYC DateNovember 1, 2016 PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

It’s not uncommon for those of us in NYC ABC to write or talk about the importance of post-release support of political prisoners . We’ve seen comrades come home and know all too well that appropriate support can not end when they leave prison. What post-release support looks like is not a singular thing.

Updates and Thoughts from Behind the Walls

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2024 AuthorsCaleb Freestone PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Imprisoned Jane's Revenge defendant Caleb Freestone's writings from federal custody.

Viola Liuzzo Part 1

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files

Virgin Islands 5 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

War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence: Involving the Rights of Free Speech, Free Press and Peaceful Assemblage (April 1, 1917 – March 1, 1919)

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1919 AuthorsNational Civil Liberties Bureau PublishersNational Civil Liberties Bureau

A compilation published by the National Civil Liberties Bureau (the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union, founded 1920) indexing cases of prosecution and mob violence directed against the rights of free speech, free press, and peaceful assembly in the United States from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 — the World War I and immediate post-w...

We Are Being Doxxed: What To Do To Help Keep Each Other Safe

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsDigital Defense PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Digital Defense primer on how activists can protect themselves and each other from doxxing.

We've Got Your Back: The Story of the J20 Defense

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsCrimethinc PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Account of the collective defense campaign for the J20 Trump-inauguration defendants.

Weather Underground February 20, 1974

CollectionSymbionese Liberation Army DateFebruary 20, 1974 PublishersFreedom Archives

This pamphlet is from the Weather Underground and commends the SLA for kidnapping Patricia Hearst in order to give food to the poor people. Bernadine Dohrn offers four points in response to the war between the rich and the poor.