Records
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.
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...
Arm the Spirit (August 1979)
Revolutionary prisoners' newspaper covering political-prisoner organizing inside U.S. prisons.
Arm the Spirit No. 14
Articles include: Support New African Freedom Fighters; The Necessity of Armed Fighters; From Sekou Odinga- New Afrikan Prisoner of War; New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day; National Conference Strengths Struggle Against Repression (Jose Lopez); Grand Jury Resistors Arrested; FALN Bombs Wall Street; Statements from Political Prisoners; Zionism is Racism: Palest...
Black Panther Intercommunal News Service (1971)
Reprint of the Black Panther Party newspaper, 1971.
Breakthrough (June-July 1977)
Introducing Breakthrough No. 2 p. 1 - On the Conviction of Leonard Peltier with a reprint of a support statement by the Native Study Group of Vancouver, British Columbia p. 4 - The Guardian Sets Out to Build Itself a Party, a PFOC critique p. 9 - The Guardian on Women's "Emancipation" - a proposal to move backwards by Flynn and friends - Burning Spear: repri...
Breakthrough (March 1977)
Breakthrough - an Introduction p. 2 - Provisional Statement of PFOC p. 6 section on women's oppression & liberation p. 28 - Meaning of Chicago (class and revolutionary politics) p. 57 - Open Letter to the RC from Native American Warriors p. 59 - To My People by Assata Shakur p. 61
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 (Winter-Spring 1987)
Editorials: Puerto Rico: Yankee Go Home p. 1 - Defend the Palestinian Revolution p. 4 - Contragate p. 6 - Chicago: Confronting the Racist Right p. 7 - Myth of Black Progress, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 17 - Kuwasi Balagoon 1946-1986 p. 21 - U.S. and Zaire Training African Contras p. 22 - Chile: Crisis in the Southern Cone p. 24 - Interview with Pue...
Bulletin — New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence (Jan–Feb 1980)
Memorial issue dedicated to Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal (1946–1979), published weeks after his death in FCI Tallahassee while serving his six-month Vieques trespass sentence as a self-declared Prisoner of War. Carries his statement to the sentencing court, the account of his funeral in Ciales drawing 8,000 people, the Sabana Seca response, the Vieques campaign...
Death to the Klan! December 1979
This issue of the newsletter includes articles about Klan activity, Zionist and white supremacist unity in opposition to Arab and Black liberation, the struggle against gentrification in Brooklyn, a march against the Klan in Texas, the assassination of Puerto Rican freedom fighter Angel Rodriguez Cristobal, a forum on U.S. imperialism and the struggle to fre...
Death to the Klan! November 1979
This is the first issue of the newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Articles include Assata Shakur's escape from prison, an overview of advances in the Black liberation movement, an update on the fight to free the Pontiac Brothers, the murder by white police of a Black man in Texas, an editorial about Klan terror, the fight against white suprema...
Death to the Klan! Summer 1986
In this Issue: Klan Using Cable TV to Reach Millions; Centers for Black Survival; A look at the Puerto Rican Independence Movement; Fighting for Freedom (News on Political Prisoners); Commentary on Libya. Also, Chicago to be "racist capitol of the word" says Klan; Marines Train NC Klan; Mobilizations Against Prison Control Units; Sandinistas Fight Amerikkka'...
New Afrikan Freedom Fighter - V 2-1 - March 1983
Periodical on Black Liberation; containing numerous articles highlighting the right and duty for Black and African peoples' to question and resist the violence of the U.S. government by any means. Also includes messages of solidarity for political prisoners; statements in direct opposition to state collaborators/ infiltrators; as well as articles that advoca...
New Afrikan Freedom Fighters - V 1-1 - June 1982
Statement of Purpose; Principles of Unity; FBI Terrorize Black Health Center; New Afrikan Prisoners of War: United States Has No Jurisdiction; Sundiata Acoli in daring Escape Attempt; The Necessity of Armed Freedom Fighters; The Saga of Twyman Myers; New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day; Speech by Julio Rosado Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional [MLN]; War, Undecl...
No KKK! No Fascist USA! - Spring/Summer 1989
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In this issue: unity between the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis; Tom Metzger; the formation of the "Syndicate", an anti-racist organization made up of anti-racist skinheads; the origins of fascist and Neo-Nazi movements in Europe; an overview of Nazi white-supremacist actions throughout the U.S.; anti-racist respo...
Prison News Service — July/August 1991 (Peltier hearing)
Political-prisoner newsletter covering Leonard Peltier's 1991 evidentiary hearing.
Revolutionary Cause, Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1977)
International Working Women's Day issue of the August Twenty-Ninth Movement (Marxist-Leninist) newspaper. Carries the fullest movement-side account of the Skyhorse-Mohawk case — the immunized witnesses, the jail beatings, forced drugging and solitary confinement, the Ventura County Bar Association's "People vs. Tonto" skit, and Skyhorse's Oxnard prison lette...
Seize the Time, Vol. 1 No. 2 (June 1974)
Black Panther Party newspaper issue with George Jackson focus.
Stop the Grand Jury! (November 1984)
The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee's newspaper on the mid-1980s wave of political grand juries: the D.C. grand jury that subpoenaed four JBAKC members (Steven Burke, Julie Nalibov, Christine Rico and Sandra Roland, all later jailed as resisters), the Boston grand jury and Operation BOSLUC manhunt, the Battle Creek grand jury that subpoenaed 200 people from t...
The Insurgent, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Winter 1986)
The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...
The Insurgent, Vol. 3 No. 2 (Fall 1987)
The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...