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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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4StruggleMag, Issue #11 (Fall 2008)

Collection4StruggleMag DateSeptember 1, 2008 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #11

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.

A Brief History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1992 AuthorsSundiata Acoli PublishersSpear & Shield Publications

Sundiata Acoli's original 1992 essay tracing the political history of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Written from inside, the text articulates the New Afrikan political identity — the post-1968 Republic of New Afrika tradition of Black national consciousness, anti-imperialist alignment...

Armed Forces Recruiting Station Bombings — Communiques

Compilation of communiques from a 1980s campaign of bombings against U.S. Armed Forces recruiting stations — actions of the kind for which the Ohio 7 / United Freedom Front and other contemporaneous clandestine formations were prosecuted, and which PFOC covered in Breakthrough's 'armed actions' section.

Judgment of the Grand Jury

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough Year1982 AuthorsCarlos Noya PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (Breakthrough)

An essay by Carlos Noya, a leading member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP), a public revolutionary organization in Puerto Rico that argued for a protracted people's war to achieve independence and socialism. Noya was exiled and imprisoned in the United States for refusing to collaborate with a federal grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican arme...

The Insurgent — Newsletter Proposal

CollectionThe Insurgent PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

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. 2 No. 3 (Winter 1986)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1986 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

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)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1987 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

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. 4 No. 1 — International Women's Day Special Issue (Winter 1988)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1988 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

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. 4 No. 3 (1988)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1988 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

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. 5 No. 1 (Spring 1989)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1989 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

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 Uprising — Raymond Luc Levasseur (Marion Prison, May 1992)

CollectionMovement Memoirs DateMay 1, 1992 AuthorsRaymond Luc Levasseur PublishersFriends of Political Prisoners / Internet Archive (community upload)

Raymond Luc Levasseur's May 1992 essay written from his cell at Marion Federal Prison in the immediate aftermath of the Los Angeles Uprising. Levasseur, a captured United Freedom Front leader serving 45 years for the 1976–1984 bombing campaign in support of Puerto Rican independence, anti-apartheid struggle, and Central American liberation movements, draws e...

The White North American Political Prisoners in the U.S. — Rita "Bo" Brown speech (Oct 3, 1992)

DateOctober 3, 1992 AuthorsRita "Bo" Brown

Speech delivered by former George Jackson Brigade member Rita "Bo" Brown at the International Tribunal on October 3, 1992, surveying nearly thirty-five white North American political prisoners then held in U.S. prisons and jails. Brown — herself an 8.5-year veteran of federal women's prisons including the Davis Hall control unit at Alderson, held alongside A...

The Women of the Ohio 7

CollectionMovement Zines AuthorsPatricia Gros Levasseur, Carol Saucier Manning, Barbara Curzi-Laaman PublishersBulldozer

Zine of statements and autobiographical writings by Patricia Gros Levasseur, Carol Saucier Manning, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — the three women among the seven United Freedom Front / Ohio 7 defendants tried in 1989 in Springfield, Massachusetts on federal sedition and RICO charges. The zine reproduces their pre-trial statements (including Manning's account of...

War On The War Makers — Documents and Communiques From The West German Left

Compilation of documents and communiques from the West German radical left (Red Army Faction, Revolutionary Cells, etc.), translated for U.S. distribution. PFOC reprinted and analyzed RAF / Revolutionary Cells material throughout the 1980s as part of its internationalist anti-imperialist line.

4StruggleMag, Issue #12 (Winter 2008–09)

Collection4StruggleMag DateDecember 1, 2008 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #12

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #13 (Spring 2009)

Collection4StruggleMag DateMarch 1, 2009 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #13

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #14 (Winter 2009)

Collection4StruggleMag DateDecember 1, 2009 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #14

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #15 (Spring 2010)

Collection4StruggleMag DateMarch 1, 2010 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #15

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #16 (Summer 2010)

Collection4StruggleMag DateAugust 1, 2010 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #16

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #17 (Fall 2010)

Collection4StruggleMag DateNovember 1, 2010 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #17

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #18 (Spring 2011)

Collection4StruggleMag DateMarch 1, 2011 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #18

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #19 (Summer 2011)

Collection4StruggleMag DateJuly 1, 2011 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #19

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #20 (Fall 2012)

Collection4StruggleMag DateOctober 1, 2012 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #20

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.

4StruggleMag, Issue #21 (Late 2012)

Collection4StruggleMag DateOctober 15, 2012 AuthorsJaan Laaman (editor) PublishersToronto ABCF VolumeIssue #21

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.

Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library DateSeptember 12, 2001 PublishersAnarchist Zine Library (azinelibrary.org)

Ward Churchill's controversial 2001 essay arguing that the September 11 attacks were a response to U.S. foreign policy. The essay made Churchill the target of a sustained right-wing campaign that resulted in his 2007 termination from the University of Colorado, widely characterized as political persecution. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Libra...