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Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
Ward Churchill's controversial 2001 essay arguing that the September 11 attacks were a response to U.S. foreign policy. The essay made Churchill the target of a sustained right-wing campaign that resulted in his 2007 termination from the University of Colorado, widely characterized as political persecution. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Libra...
Anarchist Prisoner Penpal Program
Guide to corresponding with anarchist and other political prisoners held in U.S. prisons through the Anarchist Black Cross penpal network. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
New Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network
Proposal for restructuring the continental Anarchist Black Cross network in the United States and Canada. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Solidarity with the 5e3 — Trifold
Trifold pamphlet supporting the "5e3" defendants. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Up Against the Wall: A History of Resistance to Policing in Philadelphia
Historical zine on resistance to the Philadelphia Police Department — covering MOVE, Frank Rizzo's tenure, the killing of Black Panther leaders, the 1985 MOVE bombing, and the continuing struggle against police violence in the city. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
We Will Not Cooperate
Statement and guide on refusing to cooperate with federal grand juries, written from the U.S. anarchist tradition of non-collaboration with state investigations. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
What Better Time Than Now: Notes on Consciousness and Unity in US Cities and Prisons
Notes on the relationship between U.S. urban rebellions and prisoner organizing — connecting the 2010s Black Lives Matter uprisings with prison work-stoppages and hunger strikes. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Why Misogynists Make Great Informants — How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements
Influential 2010 essay by Courtney Desiree Morris on how patriarchy within U.S. radical movements creates conditions for state infiltration and informant recruitment. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Police State Funnies — Columbus, OH, June 2010
Anti-police comic zine documenting Columbus, Ohio police violence and protest repression around the June 2010 anarchist gathering. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Attacking Prisons at the Point of Production: A Brief Look at Militant Actions Against the Military-Industrial Complex
Historical survey of U.S. militant direct actions against weapons manufacturers, military bases, and prison-construction companies — from the Plowshares movement through the Earth Liberation Front and the United Freedom Front. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Fire to the Prisons, Issue #2 (Fall 2007)
Issue #2 of Fire to the Prisons, the U.S. insurrectionary-anarchist anti-prison periodical. Sourced from libcom.org.
Fire to the Prisons, Issue #3 (Spring 2008)
Issue #3 of Fire to the Prisons, the U.S. insurrectionary-anarchist anti-prison periodical. Sourced from libcom.org.
Ongoing Police Repression in the Central Valley
Account of ongoing police repression in California's Central Valley targeting organizers, farmworkers, and immigrant communities. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Fire to the Prisons, Issue #8 (Winter 2010)
Issue #8 of Fire to the Prisons, the U.S. insurrectionary-anarchist anti-prison periodical. Sourced from libcom.org.
Fire to the Prisons, Issue #9 (Summer 2010)
Issue #9 of Fire to the Prisons, the U.S. insurrectionary-anarchist anti-prison periodical. Sourced from libcom.org.
Fire to the Prisons, Issue #10 (Fall 2010)
Issue #10 of Fire to the Prisons, the U.S. insurrectionary-anarchist anti-prison periodical. Sourced from libcom.org.
Fire to the Prisons, Issue #11 (Spring 2011)
Issue #11 of Fire to the Prisons, the U.S. insurrectionary-anarchist anti-prison periodical. Sourced from libcom.org.
Fire to the Prisons, Issue #12 (Spring 2015)
Issue #12 of Fire to the Prisons, the U.S. insurrectionary-anarchist anti-prison periodical. Sourced from libcom.org.
Chicago Anarchist Black Cross Bulletin, Issue #1 (1972)
First issue of the Chicago Anarchist Black Cross Bulletin, a prisoner-support periodical published in 1972 — among the earliest U.S. Anarchist Black Cross publications, predating the 1980s ABCF network by more than a decade. Sourced from libcom.org.
25 Years on the MOVE
Anniversary zine on the MOVE Organization's 25 years of struggle in Philadelphia — from the 1978 Powelton Avenue confrontation that produced the MOVE 9 to the 1985 police bombing of the Osage Avenue home. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz
Historical zine on the consequences of the 1969–71 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island and the wave of federal repression — culminating in COINTELPRO actions against the American Indian Movement — that followed. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Bring the War Home
Compilation on the U.S. anti-imperialist armed-struggle tradition — Weather Underground, May 19 Communist Organization, United Freedom Front — that took the slogan "Bring the war home" literally during the Vietnam War and after. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
I Will Not Crawl: Excerpts from Robert F. Williams on Black Struggle and Armed Self-Defense in Monroe, NC
Excerpts from Black liberation leader Robert F. Williams's writings on his Monroe, North Carolina NAACP chapter and his advocacy of armed Black self-defense in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before his FBI-driven flight into exile in Cuba and China. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
The Political Pre-History of Love and Rage: The Anarchist Struggle in the 1980s and 1990s
Historical zine tracing the U.S. anarchist movement of the 1980s and 1990s that produced the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, including its political-prisoner support and anti-fascist work. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).
Wobblies and Zapatistas
Dialogue between the IWW tradition of revolutionary unionism and the Zapatista movement in Chiapas — relevant to U.S. political-prisoner history through the IWW's long line of incarcerated organizers from Bill Haywood onward. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).