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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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6th Anniversary of the Assassination of George Jackson — San Quentin Demonstration

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1977 AuthorsAugust 21 Coalition PublishersAugust 21 Coalition

August 21 Coalition demonstration flyer commemorating the 6th anniversary of George Jackson's August 21, 1971 killing by San Quentin guards. Includes a fact sheet on white-supremacist attacks against Black prisoners in the California system.

Assata Bulletin (February 21, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateFebruary 21, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin updating supporters on trial proceedings during Assata Shakur's 1977 New Jersey trial.

Assata Bulletin (March 7, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMarch 7, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin covering Black solidarity demonstrations and legal updates during the Assata Shakur trial.

Assata Bulletin (May 2, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 2, 1977 AuthorsAssata Shakur PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin carrying a statement from Assata Shakur to her supporters during her 1977 New Jersey trial.

Assata-Sundiata Bulletin (August 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateAugust 1, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Joint defense-committee bulletin covering Assata Shakur's New Jersey trial and Sundiata Acoli's confinement conditions.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 4 No. 13, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Coverage of the murder of Spanish anarchist Laureano Cerrado Santos and an obituary of Aaron Rogat; also articles on the Sex Pistols, punks, trade unions, and press hysteria.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 4 No. 14, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Reports on the Murray Trials and the release of Ronan Stenson, plus an article on the Hull prisoners' demonstration.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 4 No. 15, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Focuses on the execution of Siegfried Buback and reviews Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 1, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Conflicts in Germany between anarchists and German police; debate over the role of trade unions across Europe.

Breakthrough (June-July 1977)

CollectionBreakthrough DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

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)

CollectionBreakthrough DateMarch 1, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

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

Fort Dyke Equals Fascism In The Lesbian Movement

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee

Criticism against Fort Dyke, a Lesbian Separatist group, as a non-intersectional, racist organization that seeks to divide and dismantle the Lesbian movement.

Free Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk

CollectionFreedom Archives Year1977 PublishersNative American Solidarity Committee

Native American Solidarity Committee defense pamphlet on the Skyhorse-Mohawk case — the AIM activists held nearly four years awaiting trial in the 1974 George Aird murder before their May 25, 1978 acquittal. Covers the FBI informant Douglas Durham's role in the prosecution, the defendants' biographies with portraits, and the movement's analysis of the case a...

La Enfermedad Senil del Derechismo en El Comunismo

CollectionLiga Socialista Puertorriquena DateJuly 1, 1977 PublishersLos Cuadros Estudiantiles de la Liga Socialista Puertorriquena

I. Movimiento Obrero, Paralisis Sindical II. Movimiento Estudiantil III. Desarrollo de la Conciencia

Prison Movement Discussion Paper #1

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateSeptember 13, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

This informational document discusses the need for new analysis and theory in the prison movement of its time. The paper finds that the prison system was used to uphold and carry out capitalist and imperialist agendas, thus connecting the prison movement to anti-imperialist movements around the world. The author of this document sees that there is a dialecti...

Revolutionary Cause, Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1977)

CollectionPeriodicals DateMarch 1, 1977 PublishersAugust Twenty-Ninth Movement (Marxist-Leninist) VolumeVol. 2, No. 1

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...

Stateville Prisoners Organization Discussion Paper #2

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateSeptember 13, 1977 PublishersStateville Prisoners Organization

Previously a draft copy was published by the Stateville Prisoners Organization (SPO) entitled "Contributions Toward the National Prisoners Movement". Criticism and input was welcomed from comrades and a few strong responses were received. This document is a response to said criticisms in which the SPO explains and defends their position and use of language.

The Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence and its Impact on the Public Security — Senate Hearings (Part 4), 1977

CollectionU.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee DateJanuary 1, 1977 AuthorsU.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act PublishersU.S. Government Printing Office

Earlier (1977) volume of the same Senate Subcommittee hearings on the post-Church Committee retrenchment of FBI domestic intelligence. Discusses PFOC, the Weather Underground, and the broader 'radical left' as targets the FBI no longer had clear authority to investigate.

The Militant, July 1, 1977

CollectionPeriodicals DateJuly 1, 1977 PublishersThe Militant VolumeVol. 41, No. 25

Issue of the Socialist Workers Party newsweekly (vol. 41 no. 25). Coverage includes the first anniversary of the Soweto uprising and the U.S. solidarity actions, the campaign to open the FBI's Rosenberg files (with Morton Sobell), the grand-jury investigations of the Puerto Rican independence movement, and the post-Franco amnesty struggles in Spain.

The Split of the Weather Underground Organization: Struggle Against White and Male Supremacy

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateFebruary 1, 1977 PublishersJohn Brown Book Club

Prairie Fire Organizing Committee published documents of the split in the Weather Underground Organization. CONTENTS: Intro by John Brown Book Club; Class and Revolutionary Politics: the meaning of the Hard Times Conference (Feb.1976); In Defense of Prairie Fire by Clayton van Lydegraf (July 1976); WUO Public Self-Criticism by the RC (Oct.1976); Criticism of...

The Story of Dessie Woods

CollectionDessie Woods DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

"A Close-Up Look at Justice in the 'New South.'" Dessie Woods was imprisoned after being charged, tried and convicted for defending herself from a rape attempt by a white man on June 17th, 1975.

United States of America v. John J. Kearney

CollectionGovernment Repression DateApril 7, 1977 PublishersUS District Court for the Southern District of New York

Grand Jury charges filed against John J. Kearney, supervisor of FBI Squad 47.

We Still Charge Genocide: The Thirteenth Amedment: Instrument of Legalized Slavery and the Re-subjugation of New Afrika

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateAugust 31, 1977 PublishersNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization

The Thirteenth Amedment: Instrument of Legalized Slavery and the Re-subjugation of New Afrika.

Why Assata Shakur Must Be Supported

DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

This statement includes analysis of Assata Shakur's case in the context of rising support among feminist groups. The statement asserts the primary importance of her case in relationship to the Black Liberation Movement.

Women's Liberation and Imperialism

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateNovember 1, 1977 PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

PFOC document on Women's Liberation and Imperialism Preface; Overview; Historical Roots; Structure of Women's Oppression Under Imperialism; Double Shift; Work in the Home; Women's Oppression and Waged Labor; Institutions of Social Control; History of Women's Struggles in the US; Women and the Anti-imperialist Left; I like to think of Harriet Tubman