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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Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back — Diana Block (2009)

CollectionMovement Memoirs DateJanuary 1, 2009 AuthorsDiana Block PublishersAK Press

Memoir by Diana Block — a longtime PFOC member and one of the four women (with Donna Willmott, Claude Marks, and Robert McBride) who lived underground in the 1980s after being named as material witnesses in the 1986 Chicago grand jury investigating the FALN-PRO/PFOC alleged conspiracy to free Oscar López Rivera. The most detailed first-person account of PFOC...

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Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity — Dan Berger (2006)

CollectionMovement History DateJanuary 1, 2006 AuthorsDan Berger PublishersAK Press

Dan Berger's history of the Weather Underground and its post-1976 successor formations, including extensive treatment of PFOC's role as the above-ground political organization of the anti-imperialist white left. Indispensable for understanding PFOC's place in the broader anti-imperialist solidarity tradition.

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The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground — Ron Jacobs (1997)

CollectionMovement History DateJanuary 1, 1997 AuthorsRon Jacobs PublishersVerso

Ron Jacobs's history of the Weather Underground Organization — the immediate political predecessor of PFOC. Covers the 1969 founding through the 1976–77 split that produced PFOC and the May 19th Communist Organization.