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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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 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.