Records
Assata Shakur — The Interview (May 2003)
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)
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
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)
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)
April 1986 City Sun article on the life, political activities, and federal imprisonment of Dr. Mutulu Shakur.
Looking Back — BLA Unit 3 (1975)
1975 BLA Unit 3 reflective essay on the trajectory of Black Liberation Army organizing.
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin — NAPO / BCAR Proposal
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)
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
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)
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
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)
1997 essay by Mutulu Shakur, published by the Anarchist Black Cross Federation, on the politics of freedom and continued resistance from prison.