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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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25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 1 (1978)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

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)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1978 AuthorsLolita Lebron PublishersNational Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

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.

500 Years of Resistance Through Womyn's Eyes Program

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateMarch 1, 1900 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

International Women's Day demonstration plan for 2 rallies.

500 Years of Resistance... Through Women's Eyes

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Advertisement for International Women's Day demonstration 1992.

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.

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.

Antifa in Prison

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsEric King PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Imprisoned anti-fascist Eric King on prison resistance.

Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance

CollectionArm the Spirit (Revolutionary Resistance) DateJanuary 1, 1991 PublishersFreedom Archives

Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance

CollectionArm the Spirit (Revolutionary Resistance) DateJanuary 1, 1992 PublishersFreedom Archives

Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance

CollectionArm the Spirit (Revolutionary Resistance) DateJanuary 1, 1992 PublishersFreedom Archives

Articles of Resistance: In Solidarity is the Strength!

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2019 AuthorsHybachi LeMar PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Hybachi LeMar's collected solidarity writings from prison.

Attica: Two Decades of Prison Resistance

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateJanuary 1, 1993 PublishersBlack Cat Collective, Nightcrawler ABC; Paterson anarchist Collective

Reproduction of transcript from speech given at Seton hall Law School, NJ

Autonomous Resistance to Slavery and Colonization

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsRussell Maroon Shoatz PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Russell Maroon Shoatz on the long arc of Black autonomous resistance.

Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution — Arthur Eckstein (2016)

CollectionMovement History DateJanuary 1, 2016 AuthorsArthur Eckstein PublishersYale University Press

Arthur Eckstein's history of the Weather Underground, drawing heavily on FBI files. Covers the 1976 split and the emergence of PFOC, the May 19th Communist Organization, and the Resistance Conspiracy formation.

Bits N Pieces, by Sundiata Acoli

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsSundiata Acoli Publishersmovement publication

Collected shorter writings, letters, and political statements of Sundiata Acoli — Black Liberation Army member and longtime political prisoner held by New Jersey state corrections from 1973 to 2022. Acoli was convicted in 1974 alongside Assata Shakur for the May 1973 New Jersey Turnpike incident that killed State Trooper Werner Foerster. He was released on p...

Black August Resistance — Ashanti Alston Letter

CollectionFreedom Archives AuthorsAshanti Alston PublishersFreedom Archives

Prison letter on Black August Resistance from former Black Liberation Army member Ashanti Alston.

Black August Resistance — Letter from Michael 'Shakari' Jackson

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 2006 AuthorsMichael 'Shakari' Jackson PublishersFreedom Archives

Thirteen-page letter combining typed and handwritten content on the murder of Huey Newton, with prison documentation about confiscated Black August materials.

Black Liberation Part 2

CollectionBlack Power/Black Nation PublishersFreedom Archives

Malcolm X on Black Nationalism as a response to US Colonialism; Assata Shakur reads her poem Carry It On tracing the history of Black resistance to white supremacy

Build a Revolutionary Resistance Movement Against US Imperialism — Blunk & Rosenberg

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsTim Blunk; Susan Rosenberg PublishersResistance Conspiracy Case defense

Joint political statement by Resistance Conspiracy Case defendants Tim Blunk and Susan Rosenberg outlining anti-imperialist politics.

Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. — A Collection of Biographies

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1985 AuthorsCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Biographical compendium of US political prisoners compiled and published by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) in 1985. Organized into sections on Native American, New Afrikan/Black, Puerto Rican, North American (white anti-imperialist), and Irish prisoners — including AIM defendants, Black Liberation Army and MOVE prisoners, FALN and Macheteros...

Central America Activists — Support the Resistance Conspiracy Case

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersResistance Conspiracy Case support committee

Pamphlet linking the prosecution of RCC defendants to U.S. policy in Central America and asking Central America solidarity activists for support.

Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman — Susan M. Reverby (2020)

DateJanuary 1, 2020 AuthorsSusan M. Reverby PublishersUniversity of North Carolina Press

Susan Reverby's biography of Dr. Alan Berkman — the May 19th Communist Organization / Resistance Conspiracy defendant, longtime PFOC ally, and movement physician who treated Marilyn Buck after the 1981 Brink's/Nyack action and went underground himself before being captured in 1985. One of the most detailed accounts of the political world Breakthrough magazin...

Comité de California Contra La Represión

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression PublishersComité de California Contra La Represión

Pamphlet with a short history of the Comité de California Contra la Represión and its principles of unity under the slogan 'Repression Breeds Resistance.'

Conditions Critical: Why Do We Have to Fight for Our Natural Right?

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Information on International Women's Day demonstration, 1994, celebrating women's resistance.

Conspiracy of Voices (Resistance Conspiracy Case)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersResistance Conspiracy Case defense

Anthology of statements and writings from the Resistance Conspiracy Case defendants describing their politics and legal situation.