Records
1990 Tribunal Fundraiser & Registration Letter
September 15, 1990 registration packet and fundraising appeal for the Special International Tribunal on Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and POWs in U.S. Prisons, held December 7-10, 1990 at Hunter College, New York City. Signatories include Daniel Berrigan, Margaret Randall, and Rafael Cancel Miranda. Companion piece to the Dec 7 1990 Chicano...
4StruggleMag, Issue #11 (Fall 2008)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
A Brief History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle
Sundiata Acoli's original 1992 essay tracing the political history of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Written from inside, the text articulates the New Afrikan political identity — the post-1968 Republic of New Afrika tradition of Black national consciousness, anti-imperialist alignment...
A Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Pamphlet documenting Goldman and Berkman's imprisonment at Jefferson City and Atlanta for anti-conscription organizing. Directly about two of the most famous U.S. political prisoners; both convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act and deported in 1919.
A Living Tomb — The Nation on the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1988)
March 26, 1988 reprint of The Nation's investigative report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit, the basement control unit at FCI Lexington, Kentucky used to hold women political prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres, and Silvia Baraldini under sensory-deprivation conditions. Distributed by the National Campaign to Abolish...
ABCF Guide to PP/POW Support
ABCF Support Guide outlining how to provide material and political support to political prisoners and POWs.
ABCF Trifold Flyer (January 2026)
Trifold ABCF informational flyer — 'Supporting Political Prisoners since 1994.'
Abolish!
A Call to Action; No Exit Criteria: Northeast Hearings on control unit prisons; Midwest Regional Hearing: Control Units, Prisons and Political Prisoners; Seeking Justice for the Imprisoned: West Coast builds anti-control unit work; Colorado's People's Hearing: The People speak out on the racist imprisonment binge, control units and political prisoners.
About the New York Three
Informational pamphlet from the New York Three Freedom Campaign West Coast Committee on the case of Black Panther political prisoners Herman Bell, Anthony 'Jalil' Bottom, and Albert 'Nuh' Washington — convicted of the 1971 deaths of NYPD officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini.
Afeni Shakur: Lessons from Panther 21 Trail
Afeni Shakur draws lessons from the Panther 21 trail and encourages people to support political prisoners by attending court sessions as witnesses.
Afeni Shakur: Racial Solidarity in Prisons
Afeni Shakur speaks about the importance of being in solidarity with political prisoners, Sam Melville at Attica prison, how Attica uprising is a prime example on how racial solidarity can be effective and how even prison guards can be supportive of incarcerated revolutionaries.
Afeni Shakur: Solidarity during Panther 21 Trail
Afeni Shakur speaks about the constant support the 21 Panthers received from people who showed up every day to the trails, including school children, and how this has affected the jury positively. In addition, she addresses the complex relation between political prisoners and guards and how some guards showed gestures of solidarity by, for instance, fasting...
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners — House Judiciary Hearings
Full transcript of 1921 hearings on amnesty for WWI-era Espionage Act prisoners; testimony from defense committees, Debs supporters, IWW counsel.
Amnesty to Prisoners Since the Armistice (Alternate Edition)
Companion edition of S. Doc. 224 — printed list of post-armistice federal political prisoners.
An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle
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...
Angela is free! Now we must free Ruchell and all political prisoners!
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...
Application for Repatriation and Dual Citizenship for African American Political Prisoners of War and Ex-Political Prisoners
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)
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 (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 12, March/May 1992)
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 (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 16, Fall 1993)
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 (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 18, Winter 1994/1995)
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 (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 2, July 1990)
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 (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 3, August/September 1990)
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 (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 4, October 1990)
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 (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 5, November/December 1990)
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 (...