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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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An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsSundiata Acoli PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Sundiata Acoli's updated history of the New Afrikan prison struggle, tracing Black political prisoner organizing inside U.S. prisons.

An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsSundiata Acoli Publishersmovement publication

Sundiata Acoli's primary essay on the history of the New Afrikan Prison Movement — the political and organizational tradition of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody developed from the late 1960s onward. Covers the 1960s-1970s prison rebellions (Attica, San Quentin, Folsom), the BLA-era prisoner cohort, the founding of the Republic of...

An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2000 AuthorsSundiata Acoli PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Sundiata Acoli (BLA, MOVE-era political prisoner) updates his foundational history of New Afrikan prison resistance.

An Updated Public Report about the Continuing Lockdown and Torture of the Prisoners at U.S. Penitentiary, Marion

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1984 PublishersMarion Prisoners' Rights Project

3/26/1984 update on conditions of the Marion Lockdown. Accounts of food tampering, abuse, neglect, isolation and cancel of rehabilitation programs included.

Anarchism and Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) Knowledge

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsHybachi LeMar PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Imprisoned organizer Hybachi LeMar on Kemetic spirituality and anarchism.

Anarchism and Litigation

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsEric D. Smith PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Eric D. Smith on the contradictions between anarchist principles and the use of litigation.

Anarchism and the Black Revolution

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsLorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Publishersmovement pamphlet / Pluto Press

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's foundational text linking anarchism with Black liberation, written and revised across the late 1970s and 1980s while Ervin was a Black Panther Party-aligned political prisoner in U.S. federal custody following his hijacking conviction. Originally circulated as a movement pamphlet and republished in expanded book form (most recently by...

Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter — Summer 2003

Year2003 AuthorsAnarchist Black Cross Network PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Network

Summer 2003 newsletter of the Anarchist Black Cross Network, scanned from the Freedom Archives' Anarchist Black Cross scan set. Inter-chapter news, prisoner updates, and ABC organizing notes.

Anarchist Black Cross: An Introduction

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsChicago ABC PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Overview of the Anarchist Black Cross prisoner-support network.

Anarchist Black Dragon: Washington State Penitentiary

CollectionPrison - Newspapers PublishersAnarchist Black Dragon Collective

Editorial about sexism and racism in prison; Coverage of August 10th rebellion at Walla Walla State Prison, letter from Carl Harp about early May actions at Walla Walla; press release issued after rebellion, Sex in Prison; Woman Prison Activist Raped by Guard; News on SLA appeal; more.

Anarchist Resistance to the Trump Inauguration

CollectionCrimethInc. Year2019 PublishersCrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

Account of the January 20, 2017 mobilization in Washington, D.C. and the events that set the stage for the J20 mass prosecution of 230+ people on felony rioting charges.

Anarchist Survival Guide for Understanding Gestapo Swine Interrogation Mind Games

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsHarold H. Thompson PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Harold H. Thompson's guide to recognizing and resisting police interrogation tactics.

Anarchy Can't Fight Alone

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsKuwasi Balagoon PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Kuwasi Balagoon's essay on anarchist participation in Black liberation struggle.

Anarchy Live!: Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsMichael Kimble PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Writings of long-term anarchist political prisoner Michael Kimble.

Anarchy Live: The Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble

AuthorsMichael Kimble

Collected writings of Michael Kimble — Black anarchist prisoner held by the Alabama Department of Corrections since 1987 after defending himself and a friend from a homophobic attack by a known white supremacist. Includes essays on revolutionary organising inside, queer life behind bars, Kuwasi Balagoon, and the Free Alabama Movement.

Anarchy: A Pamphlet

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsErrico Malatesta PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Errico Malatesta's classic introduction to anarchist ideas.

And Why Was He Our Shining Black Prince: Selected Quotes From Malcolm X

CollectionMalcolm X DateJanuary 1, 1997 PublishersNation Time

Excerpt from Nation Time. Selected quotes from Malcolm X.

Angel Espinosa-Villegas ICE Detention Zine (TFSR)

CollectionThe Final Straw Radio Year2025 PublishersFinal Straw Radio

Zine on ICE detention case of Angel Espinosa-Villegas.

Angel Rodriguez Cristobal Commando communique

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) DateDecember 31, 1982 PublishersFALN

Communique taking responsibility for coordinated attacks against US agencies of repression.

Angela Davis Release Speech [mp3]

CollectionAngela Davis PublishersFreedom Archives

Angela Davis, African-American leader, scholar, and prison abolitionist. She was charged in connection with events at the Marin Courthouse on August 7, 1970. this is from her first statement after her acquittal.

Angela is free! Now we must free Ruchell and all political prisoners!

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersThe Women's Bail Fund

Flyer with handwritten title announcing Angela Davis' release from prison while demanding the same for Ruchell Magee. Three typed paragraphs about Ruchell, Angela's codefendent, whose trial for murder-kidnap-consipiracy is to begin on August 1. Magee was the only person to survive the attempt to escape from the Marin County Courthouse in 1970, which was led...

Antifa in Prison

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsEric King PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Imprisoned anti-fascist Eric King on prison resistance.

Appeal from Notice of Action to the National Appeals Board

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) DateJanuary 1, 1994 PublishersFreedom Archives

Appeal to the United States Parole Commission, United States Department of Justice Regarding unjust denial of parole to Carlos Alberto Torres

Application for Repatriation and Dual Citizenship for African American Political Prisoners of War and Ex-Political Prisoners

CollectionRepublic of New Afrika DateJanuary 1, 1994 PublishersFreedom Archives

Historical Persepctive on Political Prisoners and POWs from the Black Liberation Movement being held in the US. Includes profiles on political prisoners and the Geneva Convention Regulations as related to prisoners of war.

Arm The Spirit (No. 1, June 1990)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateJune 1, 1990 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 1

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...