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Ain't Nothing Changed!!! — Ruchell Magee (1975)
1975 pamphlet by Ruchell Cinque Magee — sole surviving defendant of the August 7, 1970 Marin County courthouse incident — examining the U.S. court system and the conspiracy surrounding his case. Distributed by the Eugene Coalition and the Liberation Support Movement.
Armed Struggle: Natural Response to Fascism
Martin Sostre's prison writings on armed antifascism.
Attica News April 28, 1975
Contents include: Amnesty Now!!; Is This a Fair Jury for the Attica Brothers?; "They were there and that's enough"; Splitting the Sky
Attica News June 26, 1975
Contents include: Summing Up a Frameup; 'Guilty of being conscious...'; 3 Bros. Acquitted; Racists Creeping, Mayor Sleeping; SWAT-- alive and well in Buffalo; Inside the Walls; The Death of Tony Williams; Joann's Trial Begins; Keeping up with the news-- cover-ups; The Truth of the Matter
Attica News March 28, 1975
Contents include: New Attica Trial Will Expose State Crimes; From the Belly of the Whale; KKK Repression at Napanoch; A Black Woman's Perspective; Women's Action Puts Davits on the Spot; Who is Governor Carey?; Human Beings--Not Machines; Letter From Jail- Prison Economics; Criticism of Attica Now- Support Struggle in the Courtroom
Awakening of a Dragon
Celebrate the Victory of Vietnam Over U.S. Imperialism; Honor Our Fallen One (Melvin Rema Kearney); Communique from the Black Liberation Army; United Nations May 30th Statement in Support of Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners; World's Largest Dope Pushers!; Doctors Are Middlemen; One Pill Can Kill; Methadone Sells Big on Street; more.
CCPO — Determined Sentencing Proposal (January 1975)
January 1975 CCPO position paper analyzing determinate-sentencing proposals then under debate in California.
Church Committee Hearings Vol. 2 — Huston Plan
Senate hearings on the Huston Plan for expanded domestic intelligence. Documents the Nixon-era plan that authorized illegal surveillance against Weather Underground, BPP, and antiwar-movement prisoners.
Church Committee Hearings Vol. 6 — Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senate hearings on FBI intelligence activities. Testimony documenting FBI operations against political prisoners (King, BPP, SDS); foundational for COINTELPRO-era PP cases.
Church Committee Hearings Vol. 7 — Covert Action
Senate hearings on covert action. Companion to the FBI volume; addresses CIA and FBI surveillance overlap relevant to MLK and antiwar prosecutions.
Communique - From some warriors in South Dakota
Written to prairie fire, the weather underground and all third world and anti-imperialist allies. Native American Warriors from South Dakota express support and connect the Vietnamese Victory to their struggle against US empire and imperialism.
FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Memorandum (July 17, 1975)
Internal FBI document from the COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO surveillance file on the Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA), the multiracial socialist-feminist organization that grew out of SNCC's Black Women's Liberation Committee and was active 1970-1980. Released under FOIA and mirrored from the Internet Archive item twwa_cointelpro. Document date: July 17...
FBI Files on Cesar Chavez (1966-1975) — Consolidated
Consolidated PDF of FBI HQ files on Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
Groundswell: Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Distributing Committee
In this issue: articles about PFOC traveling in the midwest and south; Oakland Veterans Against the War/ Winter Soldier Organization; Puerto Rican Solidarity Day Rally; Boston; more.
In Defense of Armed Struggle
Discussion of U.S. imperialism in light of the FALN bombing of 1975.
Letter to the editors of the Daily News
Letter to the editors of the Daily News about the misrepresentation of PFOC
Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee — News Update (May 7, 1975)
A May 7, 1975 news update from the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee on the resistance to the FBI and the federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky. It reports on the "formal request" to interrogate ten people in the Susan Saxe case, the four women then jailed for refusing to testify, the Sixth Circuit's April 28 statement questioning the purpose o...
Looking Back — BLA Unit 3 (1975)
1975 BLA Unit 3 reflective essay on the trajectory of Black Liberation Army organizing.
Osawatomie No. 1
Contents: 3 WHERE WE STAND DON'T MOURN, ORGANIZE! 7 THE BATTLE OF BOSTON: An Investigation of ROAR 13 POPULATION CONTROL 15 TOOLBOX INTERNATIONAL!SM 18 THE WAR COMES HOME: Roots of the Economic Crisis 25 FIREWORKS SMOKE SIGNALS 27 REVIEW: CUBAN WOMEN NOW 31 US. FAILURE IN CAMBODIA
Osawatomie No. 2
Contents: 6 A MIGHTY ARMY: An Investigation of Women Workers 14 THE POLITICS OF DAYCARE 15 VICTORY IN VIETNAM 18 THE TRIAL: STORIES FROM A TRUCK STOP 20 VICTORY TO THE PONCE CEMENT STRIKE 22 IMPERIALISM = HUNGER 29 June 25th: MOZAMBIQUE INDEPENDENCE DAY 32 The Unemployed Get Organized 33 REVIEW: LONGTIME CALIFORN'
Osawatomie No. 3
Contents 3 WHERE WE STAND 7 PRISON: BREAK THE CHAINS 14 REVIEW: Three Books about Women 16 Fighting For Our Film 18 WUO Bombs Kennecott 19 Defend the Portuguese Revolution 22 TOOLBOX: Socialism 23 Boston: The Battle Rages 26 FIREWORKS. Korea: The First Defeat 28 THE TRAIL More Stories from a Truck Stop 30 Country Music
Politics in Command: On the Question of Armed Struggle
Statement describing and explaining the components of revolutionary war and how it is the only way to finally defeat imperialism and build socialism. It also discusses three "incorrect" strategies of guerrilla warfare including war against fascism theory, the foco theory and the retribution theory.
Prisoners in Revolution — Response to 'Prairie Fire' (1975)
1975 prisoner-authored response to the Weather Underground's 'Prairie Fire' statement, theorizing the role of prisons in U.S. imperialism. Written by future Ohio 7 / United Freedom Front members Jaan Laaman and Richard Williams together with John Yancey and Roger Boberg — among the earliest joint statements between Black and white anti-imperialist prisoners...
The People's Response To Popeye's Murder — The Anvil, September 1975
Article from *The Anvil*, September 1975, on the people's response to the police killing of 'Popeye' Jackson — the Bay Area prisoner-rights organizer killed in 1975 in a still-unsolved attack widely attributed to police or right-wing forces. One of the early mobilizations that the founding PFOC cadre worked through in the immediate post-WUO period.
Weather Underground Attack Kennecott Corporation Headquarters
Communique released by WUO taking responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of Kennecott Corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah.