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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

No Regrets: Accounts and Reflections from the 2016 National Prison Strike

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2022 AuthorsBlackbird Publishing PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

First-person accounts of the 2016 national prison strike.

Non-Western Anarchisms: Rethinking the Global Context

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsJason Adams PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Jason Adams's survey of anarchist movements outside the Euro-American context.

Northwestern Insider (V2I2 and older)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2024 AuthorsNorthwestern Prison Education Program PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Northwestern University prison-education newsletter.

Notes on Anarchism

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsNoam Chomsky PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Chomsky's introductory notes on anarchist political thought.

Ohio 7 / On Trial For Seditious Conspiracy / Defeat US Imperialism

Defense pamphlet for the Ohio 7 — Raymond Luc Levasseur, Patricia Gros Levasseur, Thomas Manning, Carol Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — the United Freedom Front clandestine cell prosecuted in the late 1980s on federal seditious-conspiracy and RICO charges for a series of 1976–1984 bombings of U.S. military and corporate tar...

On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine Movement

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2025 AuthorsAnonymous PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Anonymous critique of how the pro-Palestine movement has treated imprisoned organizer Casey Goonan.

On Law and Authority

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsPeter Kropotkin PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Kropotkin's classic anarchist critique of law and authority as social institutions.

On the Black Liberation Army

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsJalil Muntaqim PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

BLA history by long-term political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim.

On the Question of Political Prisoners

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year1995 AuthorsSafiya Bukhari PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Safiya Bukhari's theoretical framework for what makes someone a political prisoner.

Our Commitment Is to Our Communities

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2014 AuthorsDavid Gilbert PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Life-sentenced anti-imperialist political prisoner David Gilbert on abolition.

Palestine Political Prisoners Booklet

CollectionFreedom Archives Year2016 AuthorsAddameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Bilingual (Arabic/English) Palestinian political-prisoner organizing handbook produced by Addameer.

Palestine's Liberation Will Liberate Us All

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2025 AuthorsCasey Goonan PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Casey Goonan's message read at a prisoner letter-writing event.

Peppy & Krystal support pamphlet (LA ABCF, October 2025)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateOctober 1, 2025 AuthorsLA Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

LA ABCF support flyer for Peppy and Krystal DiPippa.

Peppy and Krystal tri-fold (NYC ABCF, September 2023)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateSeptember 1, 2023 AuthorsNYC Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for Peppy and Krystal DiPippa.

Policing on the Global Scale

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsVenomous Butterfly Publications PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Venomous Butterfly Publications on the globalization of policing.

Political Prisoners in the U.S.: An Organizing Handbook

CollectionFreedom Archives AuthorsMalcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) PublishersFreedom Archives

Movement organizing handbook for political-prisoner support campaigns produced by MXGM.

Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsAngela Davis PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Angela Davis's foundational essay on political prisoners, the carceral state, and Black liberation.

Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation (2018 reprint)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsAngela Y. Davis PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Angela Y. Davis's foundational essay on political prisoners and Black liberation; 2018 Boston ABC reprint.

Practical Abolition from the Inside Out

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsBarton Prisoner Solidarity Project PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project on practical abolitionist organizing inside and outside prison.

Prison Action News (Issue 11.1 and older)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2018 AuthorsPrison Action News PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Long-running prison activism newsletter.

Prison Health News (latest)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsPrison Health News PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Newsletter on health and medical conditions in U.S. prisons.

Prison, Where is Thy Victory?

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsHuey P. Newton PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Huey P. Newton's classic essay on the politics of imprisonment and Black liberation.

Prison, Where is Thy Victory?

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year1970 AuthorsBlack Panther Party PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Black Panther Party essay on prison and victory.

Prisoners in Revolution — Response to 'Prairie Fire' (1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1975 AuthorsJaan Laaman; John Yancey; Richard Williams; Roger Boberg PublishersPrisoner-authored

1975 prisoner-authored response to the Weather Underground's 'Prairie Fire' statement, theorizing the role of prisons in U.S. imperialism. Written by future Ohio 7 / United Freedom Front members Jaan Laaman and Richard Williams together with John Yancey and Roger Boberg — among the earliest joint statements between Black and white anti-imperialist prisoners...

Prisoners of War — The Case of the New York Three

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersNew York 3 Freedom Campaign

Case pamphlet framing Herman Bell, Jalil Muntaqim, and Nuh Washington as prisoners of war from the Black Liberation struggle.