Records
Breakthrough (Vol. 9 No. 1, Spring/Summer 1985) — PFOC
Issue of *Breakthrough*, the magazine of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) — the above-ground white anti-imperialist organization that emerged in 1975 from the Weather Underground's 1974 Prairie Fire manifesto. PFOC was the principal U.S. white-radical formation supporting Black, Puerto Rican, Native American, and Chicano national liberation movem...
Liberation News Service Packet No. 755 — 1976
Packet No. 755 of the Liberation News Service (LNS), the cooperative wire service that fed New Left and movement publications across North America from 1967 through 1981. The packet carries movement coverage from the same 1976 moment as PFOC's first Breakthrough issues.
Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism — The Political Statement of the Weather Underground
1974 political statement of the Weather Underground Organization, produced clandestinely and distributed via the U.S. radical-left press during the group's underground period. The 156-page manifesto sets out the WUO's analysis of U.S. imperialism in the wake of Vietnam, the Watergate-era state-crisis, the Indochinese revolutions, the Black liberation movemen...
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
Companion volume to Agents of Repression (1988). Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's 1990 South End Press compilation reproduces hundreds of pages of FBI COINTELPRO documents — released under FOIA — covering the Bureau's operations against the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Puerto Rican independence movement, the New Left and the anti-war...
You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969)
The founding political document of the Weather Underground Organization, presented at the June 18, 1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) National Convention in Chicago by the faction that called itself the Revolutionary Youth Movement. Co-authored by Karen Ashley, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim...