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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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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.

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.

Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism — The Political Statement of the Weather Underground

CollectionMovement Reference DateJuly 1, 1974 AuthorsWeather Underground Organization (Dohrn, Ayers, Jones, Sojourn) PublishersCommunications Co. (underground)

1974 political statement of the Weather Underground Organization, produced clandestinely and distributed via the U.S. radical-left press during the group's underground period. The 156-page manifesto sets out the WUO's analysis of U.S. imperialism in the wake of Vietnam, the Watergate-era state-crisis, the Indochinese revolutions, the Black liberation movemen...

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.

You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969)

CollectionMovement Reference DateJune 18, 1969 AuthorsRevolutionary Youth Movement / Weather Underground (Ashley, Ayers, Dohrn, Jacobs, Jones, Long, Machtinger, Mellen, Robbins, Rudd, Tappis) PublishersStudents for a Democratic Society / New Left Notes

The founding political document of the Weather Underground Organization, presented at the June 18, 1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) National Convention in Chicago by the faction that called itself the Revolutionary Youth Movement. Co-authored by Karen Ashley, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim...