Records
A History of the NLG 1937-1987
Historical document covering NLG defense of PPs across 50 years (Smith Act, Panthers, AIM).
A Jail is a Jail
Typed flyer on a sheet of blue paper, double-sided. Opens with a discussion of the June 1971 transfer of inmates from NYC's infamous Women's House of Detention to the newly constructed New York City Correctional Facility for Women, which was done suddenly to try to avoid protests. The new facility at Rikers Island is described as an "isolated penal colony" w...
A Living Tomb — The Nation on the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1988)
March 26, 1988 reprint of The Nation's investigative report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit, the basement control unit at FCI Lexington, Kentucky used to hold women political prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres, and Silvia Baraldini under sensory-deprivation conditions. Distributed by the National Campaign to Abolish...
A Prisoner Remembers the Attica Massacre
An interview conducted by Liberation News Service with Chris Reed, a 23 year old black inmate who participated in the rebellion and was indicted with 18 other inmates on 34 counts of first degree kidnapping.
A Public Report About Violent Mass Assault Against Prisoners and Continuing Illegal Punishment & Torture of the Prison Population at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois
Details events and conditions of the initial Marion Lockdown.
A Report From Inside Attica
A special 8 paged newsletter on Attica. Contents include: Unity and Courage vs. Rockefeller's Machine Guns; Report from inside Attica; Prisoners' Relatives Tell Their Story; Protests over Massacre Erupt in Many Cities; For These Demands They Died
A Report on the Marion/Lexington Demonstration (with media reports and solidarity messages from prisoners)
Details history of CEML, the Conference for Education in 1985, and preparations for the demonstration at Lexington and Marion on 4/19/1986.
A Single Spark: Internal Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
In this Issue: The main thrust of this issue of the newsletter is rectification. It contains a political history of the two line struggle in the organization, self-criticisms from National Committee members who take main responsibility for leading in the incorrect line; evaluations of the process of rectification in the chapters. There are three articles dea...
A Single Spark: Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
In this Issue: The White Oppressor Nation; The National Question: Some Recent Positions; Rectification and PFOC's Analysis of July 4th; July 4th: National Evaluation; July 4th: New York Chapter; Rectification in Boston: The Anti-Racism Committee; A Report on the Native American Treaty Conference.
A Texas Prison BBQ: Transgender Style
Incarcerated trans activist Nesa Gray on Texas prison life.
A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant
A defendant support handbook from the Tilted Scales Collective written by experienced legal-support activists. The guide draws on the wisdom of dozens of people who have weathered trials and incarceration in political cases — covering pretrial decisions, plea negotiations, cooperation pressure, mental and physical health under indictment, family and communit...
A Visit to Communist Party Headquarters, Chicago — Oct. 14, 1919
A U.S. Bureau of Investigation surveillance report by Special Agent A.H. Loula describing his October 14, 1919 visit to the national headquarters of the Communist Party of America, then newly founded, at the Smolny Institute, 1221 Blue Island Avenue, Chicago. Loula names the party's leaders — Louis Fraina, Alexander Stoklitsky, Isaac Hourwich, Isaac Ferguson...
A Voice from Harper's Ferry (1861 First Edition)
Osborne P. Anderson's first-edition account of the Harpers Ferry raid.
A Voice from Harper's Ferry — Life and Death of the Last John Brown Hero (1873)
Memoir by Osborne P. Anderson, the only Black survivor of Brown's raid (1873 reprint).
ABCF Guide to PP/POW Support
ABCF Support Guide outlining how to provide material and political support to political prisoners and POWs.
ABCF Introductory Flyer (2026)
ABCF introductory flyer for 2026 with information on the federation's 10 chapters.
ABCF Trifold Flyer (January 2026)
Trifold ABCF informational flyer — 'Supporting Political Prisoners since 1994.'
