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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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Found 9 records

47 Days in Jail (Foster, 1910)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1910 AuthorsWilliam Z. Foster PublishersMIA / IWW

William Z. Foster's account of 47 days of confinement during the 1909–1910 IWW Spokane free-speech fight.

Cannon on Haywood (Obituary, 1928)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1928 AuthorsJames P. Cannon PublishersMIA / IWW

James P. Cannon's obituary essay for Big Bill Haywood, May 22, 1928.

Centralia: A Story of Wartime Murder (1922)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1922 PublishersIWW (MIA mirror)

IWW account of the 1919 Centralia Massacre and the wartime persecution of Wesley Everest and Wobbly defendants.

First IWW Convention Proceedings (1905)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1905 PublishersIndustrial Workers of the World (MIA mirror)

Proceedings of the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, June–July 1905. Includes speeches by Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, and Daniel De Leon.

IWW 1907 Convention Proceedings

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1907 PublishersIndustrial Workers of the World (MIA mirror)

Proceedings of the Industrial Workers of the World's third national convention, 1907.

The Haywood Affair (Loebl, 1921)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1921 PublishersMIA / IWW

Loebl's 1921 essay on Big Bill Haywood's flight to Soviet Russia while on bail in the federal IWW prosecutions.

The IWW Bogey (Debs, 1918)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1918 AuthorsEugene V. Debs PublishersMIA

Eugene V. Debs's defense of the IWW against wartime persecution, written in 1918.

The Rockpile (Foster, 1910)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1910 AuthorsWilliam Z. Foster PublishersMIA / IWW

William Z. Foster's account of forced-labor punishment at a rockpile during his Spokane jail term for IWW free-speech organizing.

The Sweat Box (Foster, 1909)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1909 AuthorsWilliam Z. Foster PublishersMIA / IWW

William Z. Foster's pamphlet on his jail experience during the 1909 IWW Spokane free-speech fight.