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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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A Report From Inside Attica

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 17, 1971 PublishersPrisoners Solidarity Committee

A special 8 paged newsletter on Attica. Contents include: Unity and Courage vs. Rockefeller's Machine Guns; Report from inside Attica; Prisoners' Relatives Tell Their Story; Protests over Massacre Erupt in Many Cities; For These Demands They Died

Attica Since the Massacre

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 30, 1971 PublishersPrisoner Solidarity Committee

Second 8-page newsletter on Attica. Attica executions, terror, continue; Oppressed bury their Attica Dead; Prison Rebellions erupt nationwide; Attica Liberation Faction Statement; Hassan of Auburn Six Speaks; Rockefeller's Other Massacre (Ludlow Colorado, 1914); Bail Fund Women Aid Imprisoned Sisters; Women Prisoners rebel in West Virginia; more.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ counterintelligence file targeting 'Black Nationalist - Hate Groups' under COINTELPRO. Master file documenting FBI's operations against the Black Panther Party, RAM, Republic of New Afrika, SCLC, SNCC, and individuals including Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey Newton.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 08

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file Part 8, including memoranda authorizing Director-level disruption ops against Black Panther figures who became political prisoners (Geronimo Pratt, Huey Newton, Panther 21).

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 10

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Continued FBI COINTELPRO Black Extremists file, mid-program operations. Documents FBI dirty-tricks campaigns referenced in later wrongful-conviction litigation for Geronimo Pratt and Dhoruba bin Wahad.

COINTELPRO New Left HQ — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI Headquarters file on the COINTELPRO program against the New Left. Surveillance/disruption file underlying federal cases against SDS, the Weather Underground, and the Chicago 8.

COINTELPRO Puerto Rican Groups — Part 1 of 11

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file on 'Groups Seeking Independence for Puerto Rico.' Surveillance file underlying prosecutions of Nationalist Party members and FALN/Macheteros prisoners including Oscar López Rivera.

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 01 of 05

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file targeting the Socialist Workers Party. Documents ten years of warrantless surveillance the SWP successfully sued the FBI over (Socialist Workers v. Attorney General, 1986).

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 05 (Final)

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Final volume of the COINTELPRO-SWP HQ file. Closing memoranda on the SWP disruption program.

COINTELPRO White Hate Groups — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI COINTELPRO file on KKK and white-supremacist groups. Includes informant relationships with klansmen later prosecuted in the Viola Liuzzo and civil rights worker murders.

Eldridge Cleaver From Algiers

CollectionEldridge Cleaver DateJanuary 12, 1971 PublishersBPP

Position on drug culture in U.S. as it relates to carrying out the revolutionary struggle

FBI COINTELPRO Puerto Rico — Consolidated

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1971 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

Consolidated COINTELPRO Puerto Rico HQ file. Surveillance file underlying Nationalist Party and FALN prosecutions (Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Oscar López Rivera).

FBI COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Consolidated

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1971 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

Consolidated FBI COINTELPRO-SWP file. Documents ten years of warrantless FBI surveillance/disruption of the SWP later ruled illegal in federal court.

George Lester Jackson — FBI File

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on George L. Jackson, Soledad Brother and BPP Field Marshal. Surveillance of George Jackson up to his killing at San Quentin on August 21, 1971; directly tied to the Soledad Brothers and San Quentin 6 prosecutions.

Message to the Afro-American People from the Peoples Republic of the Congo

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateMay 1, 1971 PublishersFreedom Archives

Black Liberation Army Delegation to the Peoples Republic of the Congo. Includes pieces written by Eldridge Cleaver and Ernest Ndalla. Includes Message to Afro-Americans from Ernest Ndalla First Secretary of the Congolese Workers Party; After Brother Malcolm by Eldridge Cleaver; Congo (Brazzaville): A Political History by Michael Cetawayo Tabor; The Number On...

Outlaws of Amerika: Communiques from the Weather Underground

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateJuly 1, 1971 PublishersLiberated Guardian

Contains 9 communiques. This pamphlet was prepared by the Liberated Guardian Collective and other friends of the Weather Underground. Text of most of the communiques from documents sent to the Liberated Guardian, others from the Yippies, and the Berkeley Tribe and other papers. 1 copy reproduction

President to President: On the question of human rights

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersNational RNA-11 Defense Committee

Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Provisional Government of New Afrika (named a political prisoner by Amnesty International) Challenges US President Jimmy Carter On Oppression of Blacks, Indians, & Others; Genocide, Slave Labor in Prisons, Prisoner Exchange and the US Silence on the Vicious Anti-Black COINTELPRO. Virtual copy available through The In...

Press Release: Women's Bail Fund

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund DateAugust 31, 1971 PublishersWomen's Bail Fund

A press release issued by the Women's Bail Fund in response to hearings related to prisoner suicides in New York City jails. The press release refers to these deaths as murders and the prison system a murderer.

Prisoners Solidarity Committee No. 3

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateNovember 3, 1971 PublishersPrisoner Solidarity Committee

Why We Say... Tear the Prisons Down!; Attica ex-inmate Explains rebellion; Sharean of Auburn Six reveals Attica terror; more.

Rank and File

CollectionLeague of Revolutionary Black Workers DateMarch 1, 1971 PublishersFreedom Archives

The Outlaw [Vol. 1-1, Nov 1971]

CollectionThe Outlaw DateNovember 1, 1971 PublishersThe Prisoners Union

First issue of the Outlaw, Journal of the Prisoners Union. Includes a section on Students for Prison Change out of SFSU; Poetry; information about the Prisoners' Union Guerrilla Theater Company, and more.

The Outlaw [Vol. 1-2]

CollectionThe Outlaw DateDecember 1, 1971 PublishersPrisoners Union

Editorial on Prison Reform. Articles on the significance of unity, facts about women prisoners, poetry, the case of Joseph Romero, and more.

The Samuel L. Napier Intercommunal Youth Institute

CollectionBlack Panther Party (Northern California) DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersBPP

Brochure re: this educational center for young children in North Oakland

Twenty Enemy Forces Within Revolutionary Organization that Must be Combatted [James Foreman]

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersFreedom Archives

Contents: Lack of practice and day to day work; Loss of morale; Laziness; Failure to study revolutionary theory and the experience of other revolutionaries; Failure to engage in criticism and self-criticism; Liberalism; Failure to exort leadership; Lack of initiative and imagination; Lack of discipline and individualism; Elitism; Lack of internal democracy a...

U.S. Prisons: 1971 (From Behind the Walls of Auburn Concentration Camp)

CollectionPrison - Newspapers Year1971 PublishersThe Activist

from behind the walls of auburn concentration camp Prisoners Call Out: Freedom. This special issue on prisons was written for the Activist by Buffalo Youth Against War & Fascism and the Prisoner Solidarity Committee. The rich get richer - - the poor go to jail; Racism, Repression - - tools of the bosses; Auburn Prison Slavery in US; Crimes of Survival; Domes...