Records
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.
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...
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 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.