Records
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 1 (1978)
Document submitted on behalf of the four imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalists (Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores, Andres Figueroa Cordero) laying out the factual and legal basis for their release after 25 years.
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 2 (Lolita Lebron, 1978)
Memorandum from imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rico and the Nationalist prisoners taken after the November 1, 1954 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Amnesty International Report 1978 (excerpt)
Excerpt of Amnesty International's annual report covering July 1977 – June 1978 (POL 10/01/1978), including the United States section: the organization's work on the Charlotte Three (James Earl Grant, Charles Parker, T.J. Reddy), its adoption of the Wilmington Ten as Prisoners of Conscience and the campaign for their pardon, trial observation for Leonard Pel...
Arm The Spirit - First Edition
First Issue - formerly Voices From Within (the one and only issue was banned hence the name change) Cover Story: Message from the Editors; The Current Situation in the Political Prisoner Unit AKA Management Control Unit at California State Prison at San Quentin; Lewisburg political prisoners made scapegoat for prison fires (Michael Ashanti Alston); A draft p...
Attica: Then and Now
Monograph focusing on the Attica Prison Rebellion, its causes, the aftermath and the campaign to free Dacajeweiah. Contents include: Introduction; Prisons: Who Goes and Why?; The Movement Grows; The Uprising; The Prosecution; Who is Dacajeweiah; What is Being Done; Epilogue.
Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 3, February 1978)
Contains a biography of Black anarchist political prisoner Lorenzo Komboa Ervin.
Breakthrough (Spring 1978)
Anti-imperialist struggle sharpening; PFOC self-criticism p. 1 - Palestine will win! P. 8 -I declare (poem by Mahmoud Darweesh) p. 23 - IWY Houston new stage of struggle p. 24 - notes from an Afrikan POW journal by New Afrikan Prisoners Organization p. 37 - Press statement by the African People's Socialist Party p. 52 - Free the L.A. Five p. 54 - speech by A...
Breakthrough (Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 1978) — 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. 2 No. 2, Fall 1978) — 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...
Justice amerikkkan style in the DESSIE WOODS CASE
Defense lawyers on behalf of Dessie Woods have filed a writ of habeas corpus with the middle District Federal Court in Macon, GA. The writ of habeas corpus documents that many state and federal violations of Dessie Woods' rights, and asks the court to show cause as to why in light of these violations, Dessie Woods is still being held in prison. The writ is r...
Liberation Calendar 1978
Calendar published by the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization including historic events in left history. Each month highlights a different struggle, ranging from national liberation movements to prison rebellions, with an emphasis on New Afrika.
Marion Prison: Hell In a Very Small Space
Article on the social, political and personal experiences of prisoners at the Marion Lockdown.
Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter No. 1 (October 1978)
Founding newsletter of the Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition (October 1978) — formed in the wake of the July 22, 1978 Pontiac Correctional Center rebellion in Illinois, which left three guards dead and led to the indictment of 31 'Pontiac Brothers' on capital charges. Includes the coalition's founding principles and an open letter from the Pontiac-Statevil...
Statements of La Liga Socialista Puertorriguena (LSP) and the Movimiento de liberacion Nacional (MLN) Before the United Nations Committee on Decolonization
Bilingual in English and Spanish. Statement by Jose Lopez representing the Movimiento de liberacion Nacional (MLN), in which he discusses the material conditions of Puerto Ricans on the island and living in diaspora, particularly in the US. His discussion includes topics such as unemployment, forced migration, infant mortality, poverty, prison, and more, and...
The Fuse No. 8
(Formerly Stateville Raps) Articles include War for the Cities Part III, Armed Struggle and National Liberation, Menad: A Constant Reign of Terror, Why Assata was Convicted, more.
¡Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre! — Speech by Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal (March 4, 1978)
Speech by Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña representative Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal at the March 4, 1978 Chicago demonstration for Puerto Rican independence, freedom for the four Nationalist prisoners and the jailed grand-jury resisters — delivered twenty months before his death in federal custody. As reprinted in Breakthrough, via the Encyclopedia of Anti-Rev...