Records
1995 Leonard Peltier Freedom Calendar
Art, timeline, and American Indian Movement history compiled for the 1995 Peltier freedom campaign.
Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back — Diana Block (2009)
Memoir by Diana Block — a longtime PFOC member and one of the four women (with Donna Willmott, Claude Marks, and Robert McBride) who lived underground in the 1980s after being named as material witnesses in the 1986 Chicago grand jury investigating the FALN-PRO/PFOC alleged conspiracy to free Oscar López Rivera. The most detailed first-person account of PFOC...
Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution — Arthur Eckstein (2016)
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.
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era — Dan Berger (2014)
Dan Berger's history of Black prison organizing from the 1950s through the 1980s — the political base of the political-prisoner support tradition that PFOC's *Breakthrough* magazine covered most consistently. Includes substantial treatment of the BLA, the RNA, the Black Panther Party prisoner support work, and the Attica uprising.
Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman — Susan M. Reverby (2020)
Susan Reverby's biography of Dr. Alan Berkman — the May 19th Communist Organization / Resistance Conspiracy defendant, longtime PFOC ally, and movement physician who treated Marilyn Buck after the 1981 Brink's/Nyack action and went underground himself before being captured in 1985. One of the most detailed accounts of the political world Breakthrough magazin...
Collected Works of the Black Liberation Army, Volume 1
BLA primary documents, study guide, and essays from members and supporters.
FBI COINTELPRO — Black Extremism File, Part 1
Original FBI file on COINTELPRO operations targeting Black nationalist organizations, 1967–1971.
FBI COINTELPRO — New Left File, Part 1
Original FBI file on COINTELPRO operations targeting the New Left, 1968–1971.
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
Angela Davis's foundational essay collection on political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation.
Jericho Movement Manual (2014)
Movement-to-free political prisoners organizing handbook.
Juan Antonio Corretjer — A Visual Finding Aid
Visual finding aid documenting the life and work of Puerto Rican poet and independentista Juan Antonio Corretjer.
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left — Emily K. Hobson (2016)
Emily Hobson's history of the U.S. gay and lesbian left from the 1970s through the 1990s, with substantial treatment of the Lesbians Against Police Violence, the Lavender & Red Union, and the gay-and-lesbian organizing inside PFOC and the broader white anti-imperialist solidarity movement.
No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements — Hilary Moore & James Tracy (2020)
Hilary Moore and James Tracy's history of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC) — the late-1970s through 1990s anti-fascist formation that grew out of PFOC's tradition of anti-imperialist solidarity work and that became one of the most consistent U.S. anti-Klan and anti-Nazi organizing vehicles of the period.
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity — Dan Berger (2006)
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.
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906–1926)
The 1955 autobiography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn covering her early life and her organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World from the Spokane free-speech fights of 1909 through the Lawrence and Paterson textile strikes, the Joe Hill defense, the Tom Mooney case, the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign, the WWI Espionage Act prisoner defense, and the founding of...
The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States — Dan Berger (2014)
Dan Berger's overview of U.S. political-prisoner support work from the 1960s onward. PFOC's *Breakthrough* and the parallel publications archived alongside this record are core primary sources for the period the book covers.
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground — Ron Jacobs (1997)
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.
Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986 — Michael Staudenmaier (2012)
Michael Staudenmaier's definitive history of the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO), the Chicago-based Marxist-Leninist cadre group that operated alongside and in polemic with PFOC throughout the 1970s on questions of whiteness, white-skin privilege, and the strategic role of white workers in anti-imperialist struggle.