Skip to content
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.

Records

?
Found 12 records

Assata Shakur — The Interview (May 2003)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 2, 2003 AuthorsAssata Shakur PublishersFreedom Archives

2003 interview with Assata Shakur conducted while she lived in political exile in Cuba.

Capitalism Has Won a Game But Not the Championship — Benedetti / Buck (1990)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJune 8, 1990 AuthorsMario Benedetti (translation: Marilyn Buck) PublishersClaridad – En Rojo

Essay by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti translated from Spanish by imprisoned anti-imperialist Marilyn Buck, reflecting on socialism after the Cold War.

David Gilbert — Consumption: Domestic Imperialism

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsDavid Gilbert; Bob Gottlieb; Susan Sutheim PublishersSDS

SDS-era essay by Gilbert, Gottlieb, and Sutheim analyzing capitalist production, class, commodity, and underconsumption in the U.S.

David Gilbert — The Criminal Justice System (December 1994)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateDecember 3, 1994 AuthorsDavid Gilbert PublishersFreedom Archives

David Gilbert's December 1994 essay analyzing three contemporary reports on the U.S. criminal justice system.

For Mutulu Shakur, the Revolution Isn't Over — The City Sun (April 1986)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateApril 1, 1986 AuthorsSally O'Brien; Terry Bisson PublishersThe City Sun

April 1986 City Sun article on the life, political activities, and federal imprisonment of Dr. Mutulu Shakur.

Looking Back — BLA Unit 3 (1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1975 PublishersBlack Liberation Army

1975 BLA Unit 3 reflective essay on the trajectory of Black Liberation Army organizing.

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin — NAPO / BCAR Proposal

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsLorenzo Komboa Ervin PublishersFreedom Archives

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's organizing proposal calling for revived Black Liberation Movement activism around the death penalty, judicial railroading, and police informants, concluding with a proposed Bill of Rights.

Mutulu Shakur — Post 9/11 Challenges to International Law (September 2002)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateSeptember 1, 2002 AuthorsMutulu Shakur; Gibran Ali PublishersFreedom Archives

September 2002 essay by Mutulu Shakur and Gibran Ali analyzing post-9/11 challenges to international law from inside U.S. prisons.

New Afrikan/Black PP & POW — Conditions of Confinement

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsJill Soffiyah Elijah PublishersFreedom Archives

Essay by attorney Jill Soffiyah Elijah analyzing the conditions of confinement faced by New Afrikan/Black political prisoners and POWs.

Poems of Veronza Bowers (June 1974)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJune 24, 1974 AuthorsVeronza Bowers Jr. PublishersFreedom Archives

Four-page set of poems by Black Panther political prisoner Veronza Bowers Jr., written during his incarceration at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary.

Sundiata Acoli — You Can Almost Hold It in Your Hand: Long Walk to Freedom

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsSundiata Acoli PublishersFreedom Archives

Acoli's autobiographical account of his arrest, trial, decades-long incarceration, and the campaign for his eventual release.

We Want Our Freedom Anyway — Mutulu Shakur (1997)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1997 AuthorsMutulu Shakur PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

1997 essay by Mutulu Shakur, published by the Anarchist Black Cross Federation, on the politics of freedom and continued resistance from prison.