Records
Breakthrough (Vol. 6 No. 1, Spring 1982) — 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...
Breakthrough (Vol. 7 No. 1, Winter 1983) — 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...
Breakthrough (Vol. 8 No. 1, Summer 1984) — 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...
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...
Clayton Van Lydegraf — FBI File
FBI file on Clayton Van Lydegraf (1915–1992), the veteran Communist Party USA member turned Weather Underground / PFOC theorist who was the political mentor of the post-1976 PFOC. Arrested in November 1977 as part of the 'LA 5' on conspiracy/explosives charges. The file documents decades of FBI surveillance from the Smith Act era through the Weather Undergro...
Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman — Susan M. Reverby (2020)
Susan Reverby's biography of Dr. Alan Berkman — the May 19th Communist Organization / Resistance Conspiracy defendant, longtime PFOC ally, and movement physician who treated Marilyn Buck after the 1981 Brink's/Nyack action and went underground himself before being captured in 1985. One of the most detailed accounts of the political world Breakthrough magazin...
Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence and its Impact on the Public Security — Senate Hearings, 1978
1978 Senate Subcommittee hearings (95th Congress) lamenting the post-Church Committee curtailment of FBI domestic intelligence. PFOC, the Weather Underground, the FALN, and the BLA are repeatedly cited as the threats the committee believed the FBI was no longer monitoring adequately. A key document for understanding the political backlash that fed the FBI's...
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left — Emily K. Hobson (2016)
Emily Hobson's history of the U.S. gay and lesbian left from the 1970s through the 1990s, with substantial treatment of the Lesbians Against Police Violence, the Lavender & Red Union, and the gay-and-lesbian organizing inside PFOC and the broader white anti-imperialist solidarity movement.
Making Contact: Specters of Attica — Reflections from Inside a Michigan Prison Strike (April 25, 2018)
Making Contact (Frequencies of Change Media) episode from April 25, 2018, marking the 45th anniversary of the September 1971 Attica prison uprising and documenting the September 2016 strike at Michigan's Kinross Correctional Facility. Hundreds of imprisoned people at Kinross refused to report to work or lock down, joining the coordinated nationwide September...
No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements — Hilary Moore & James Tracy (2020)
Hilary Moore and James Tracy's history of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC) — the late-1970s through 1990s anti-fascist formation that grew out of PFOC's tradition of anti-imperialist solidarity work and that became one of the most consistent U.S. anti-Klan and anti-Nazi organizing vehicles of the period.
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity — Dan Berger (2006)
Dan Berger's history of the Weather Underground and its post-1976 successor formations, including extensive treatment of PFOC's role as the above-ground political organization of the anti-imperialist white left. Indispensable for understanding PFOC's place in the broader anti-imperialist solidarity tradition.
The Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence and its Impact on the Public Security — Senate Hearings (Part 4), 1977
Earlier (1977) volume of the same Senate Subcommittee hearings on the post-Church Committee retrenchment of FBI domestic intelligence. Discusses PFOC, the Weather Underground, and the broader 'radical left' as targets the FBI no longer had clear authority to investigate.
The Split Of The Weather Underground Organization
Movement document on the 1976–77 split of the Weather Underground Organization that produced both the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee tendency on one side, and the 'Revolutionary Committee' that issued the 1976 self-criticism on the other. Essential context for the political conditions under which PFOC consolidated it...
The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States — Dan Berger (2014)
Dan Berger's overview of U.S. political-prisoner support work from the 1960s onward. PFOC's *Breakthrough* and the parallel publications archived alongside this record are core primary sources for the period the book covers.
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground — Ron Jacobs (1997)
Ron Jacobs's history of the Weather Underground Organization — the immediate political predecessor of PFOC. Covers the 1969 founding through the 1976–77 split that produced PFOC and the May 19th Communist Organization.
Threats to the Peaceful Observance of the Bicentennial — Senate Subcommittee Hearing, June 18, 1976
Hearing before the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (the 'Eastland Subcommittee') of the Committee on the Judiciary, 94th Congress, 2nd Session. One of the most extensive government documents on the Weather Underground Organization and the newly above-ground Prairie Fire Organ...