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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

All Out to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal!

CollectionFreedom Archives Year1995 AuthorsPartisan Defense Committee PublishersPartisan Defense Committee

Mumia Abu-Jamal death-penalty defense pamphlet published during the 1995 execution-date emergency campaign.

Folsom Prisoners Manifesto of Demands

CollectionFreedom Archives Year1970 AuthorsFolsom Prison inmates PublishersFreedom Archives

Anti-repression platform issued from the 1970 Folsom Prison strike — a foundational text of 1970s prison-organizing demands.

How to Survive a Felony Trial

CollectionCrimethInc. Year2023 PublishersCrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

First-person practical guide to navigating a felony prosecution as a political defendant. Used widely across political-prisoner support networks as a pre-prison briefing for new defendants.

Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression

CollectionCrimethInc. Year2025 PublishersCrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

Guide to preparing social movements for state repression and terrorism designations under the second Trump administration. Explicitly addressed to people likely to be targeted as political prisoners.

Palestine Political Prisoners Booklet

CollectionFreedom Archives Year2016 AuthorsAddameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Bilingual (Arabic/English) Palestinian political-prisoner organizing handbook produced by Addameer.

Political Prisoners in the U.S.: An Organizing Handbook

CollectionFreedom Archives AuthorsMalcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) PublishersFreedom Archives

Movement organizing handbook for political-prisoner support campaigns produced by MXGM.

What Is Security Culture?

CollectionCrimethInc. Year2014 PublishersCrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

Foundational guide to operational security practices designed to prevent state repression and protect movement participants. Cornerstone anti-repression text repeatedly cited by Green Scare, NATO 3, Cleveland 4, and J20 defendants in their support materials.

We Will Not Cooperate

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library PublishersAnarchist Zine Library (azinelibrary.org)

Statement and guide on refusing to cooperate with federal grand juries, written from the U.S. anarchist tradition of non-collaboration with state investigations. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants — How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library PublishersAnarchist Zine Library (azinelibrary.org)

Influential 2010 essay by Courtney Desiree Morris on how patriarchy within U.S. radical movements creates conditions for state infiltration and informant recruitment. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).