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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.

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Anarchism and the Black Revolution

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsLorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Publishersmovement pamphlet / Pluto Press

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's foundational text linking anarchism with Black liberation, written and revised across the late 1970s and 1980s while Ervin was a Black Panther Party-aligned political prisoner in U.S. federal custody following his hijacking conviction. Originally circulated as a movement pamphlet and republished in expanded book form (most recently by...

Autonomous Resistance to Slavery and Colonization

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library PublishersAnarchist Zine Library (azinelibrary.org)

Anarchist analysis of autonomous resistance to slavery and colonization in the United States. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

Up Against the Wall: A History of Resistance to Policing in Philadelphia

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library PublishersAnarchist Zine Library (azinelibrary.org)

Historical zine on resistance to the Philadelphia Police Department — covering MOVE, Frank Rizzo's tenure, the killing of Black Panther leaders, the 1985 MOVE bombing, and the continuing struggle against police violence in the city. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

What Better Time Than Now: Notes on Consciousness and Unity in US Cities and Prisons

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library PublishersAnarchist Zine Library (azinelibrary.org)

Notes on the relationship between U.S. urban rebellions and prisoner organizing — connecting the 2010s Black Lives Matter uprisings with prison work-stoppages and hunger strikes. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

25 Years on the MOVE

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library

Anniversary zine on the MOVE Organization's 25 years of struggle in Philadelphia — from the 1978 Powelton Avenue confrontation that produced the MOVE 9 to the 1985 police bombing of the Osage Avenue home. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

I Will Not Crawl: Excerpts from Robert F. Williams on Black Struggle and Armed Self-Defense in Monroe, NC

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library

Excerpts from Black liberation leader Robert F. Williams's writings on his Monroe, North Carolina NAACP chapter and his advocacy of armed Black self-defense in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before his FBI-driven flight into exile in Cuba and China. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).