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Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...
Application for Repatriation and Dual Citizenship for African American Political Prisoners of War and Ex-Political Prisoners
Historical Persepctive on Political Prisoners and POWs from the Black Liberation Movement being held in the US. Includes profiles on political prisoners and the Geneva Convention Regulations as related to prisoners of war.
Attica: Then and Now
Monograph focusing on the Attica Prison Rebellion, its causes, the aftermath and the campaign to free Dacajeweiah. Contents include: Introduction; Prisons: Who Goes and Why?; The Movement Grows; The Uprising; The Prosecution; Who is Dacajeweiah; What is Being Done; Epilogue.
Censored Women Speak — Marilyn Buck
Essay by Marilyn Buck on political censorship and women's imprisonment, arguing that imprisonment is itself a form of censorship; includes statements by Susan Rosenberg.
Comrade George — An Investigation into the Official Story of His Assassination (1972)
Red Prison Movement investigation challenging the official San Quentin narrative of George Jackson's August 21, 1971 killing, with detailed timeline analysis and a centerfold poster.
Enemies of the State — Gilbert, Whitehorn, Buck (1999)
Roundtable interview with imprisoned anti-imperialists David Gilbert, Laura Whitehorn, and Marilyn Buck reflecting on past movements, victories, errors, and conditions for contemporary revolutionary struggle.
Firmes En La No Colaboración (1983)
Spanish-language monograph on the politics of non-collaboration with grand juries, with sections on Albizu Campos and the grand jury.
Genocide Through Behavior Modification — Mutulu Shakur et al. (December 1988)
Collective 1988 analysis by seven political prisoners charging the U.S. with using behavior-modification techniques as a form of genocide against the Black nation.
Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen's landmark 1983 (Viking) book-length investigation of the FBI's war against the American Indian Movement on the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in the 1970s, the 1975 Oglala firefight that left FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams and AIM member Joseph Stuntz dead, and the federal frame-up of Leonard Peltier. Held off bookstore shelves f...
Justice amerikkkan style in the DESSIE WOODS CASE
Defense lawyers on behalf of Dessie Woods have filed a writ of habeas corpus with the middle District Federal Court in Macon, GA. The writ of habeas corpus documents that many state and federal violations of Dessie Woods' rights, and asks the court to show cause as to why in light of these violations, Dessie Woods is still being held in prison. The writ is r...
Lectures on Liberation
Collection of transcripts from Angela Davis's initial lectures for "Recurring Philosophical Themes in Black Literature," her first course at UCLA taught during the Fall Quarter of 1969. Lectures outline the causes and perpetuation of oppression. They also deal with the psychological nature of the oppressor and the oppressed, the process by which the latter b...
Lest We Forget
A booklet commemorating Black Panther Party members who were assassinated, containing an introduction by Safiya A. Bukhari, poetry, illustrations, and biographical information about those who were murdered. Photocopied.
New African Ujamaa: The Economics of the Republic of New Africa
Declaration of Economic Intent: Basic Principles, Prestige and Leisure Activity, Imperatives for Success, Start Money for a New Community, The Needs, The Sources, Making the Economy Run.
Non-Collaboration — The Only Answer to Political Investigations (1985)
Statements from JBAKC-connected grand-jury resisters refusing to cooperate with the federal probe into the 1983 Capitol / War College / Navy Officers Club / Navy computer bombings claimed by the Armed Resistance Unit and Red Guerrilla Resistance. Includes a Terry Bisson poem.
Notes on the Black Panther Party - It's Basic Working Papers and Policy Statements
This pamphlet is an attempt to provide you with the basic working documents of the Black Panther Party. These basic documents are the foundation from which all the theory and practice that flowed from the Black Panther Party outward was produced. It is impossible to receive a clear and undistorted picture of what the Black Panther Party was truly about witho...
On Trial: Angela Davis or America?
Booklet surrounding Angela Davis's imprisonment and trial, where she was convicted of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. Includes an introduction by Ossie Davis, excerpts from two speeches--"I Bring An Indictment Against the American System" by Reverend Ralph Abernathy and "The Case Must be Dismissed" by Attorney John J. Abt--and an article, "In Defense of...
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes's 2019 Verso history of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the longer arc of Lakota / Dakota / Nakota sovereignty struggle. Combines reporting from the 2016–2017 #NoDAPL water-protector camps with deep historical narrative running from the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty through Wounded Knee 1890, the 1973...
Police Repression — N.Y. Committee Against Repression (1978)
Monograph on police murders and police/FBI alliances against oppressed communities, framing repression as the U.S. government's answer to the just struggle of oppressed people.
Political Prisoners in the United States — The Hidden Reality (1990 Tribunal)
Deutsch and Susler's comprehensive overview of U.S. political prisoners, prepared for the 1990 International Tribunal.
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
Companion volume to Agents of Repression (1988). Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's 1990 South End Press compilation reproduces hundreds of pages of FBI COINTELPRO documents — released under FOIA — covering the Bureau's operations against the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Puerto Rican independence movement, the New Left and the anti-war...
The Deeper They Bury Me, the Louder My Voice Becomes — Angola 3 (2009)
2009 exhibition publication curated by Amy Mackie on the Angola 3 — Robert King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace — and decades of solitary confinement at Angola Prison.
The New State Repression — Ken Lawrence (1985)
Analyzes political repression in three forms: police brutality, vigilantism, and secret police. Covers the strategy of permanent repression, Frank Kitson's counterinsurgency theory, and Louis Giuffrida under Reagan.
The Story of Dessie Woods
"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.
Uses and Effects of Control Unit Prisons — Bonnie Kerness (1996)
Bonnie Kerness's compilation of interviews with incarcerated people, prepared for the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons' hearing on the use and effects of control units.