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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 Public Report About Violent Mass Assault Against Prisoners and Continuing Illegal Punishment & Torture of the Prison Population at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersMarion Prisoners' Rights Project

Details events and conditions of the initial Marion Lockdown.

Acto Politico — Juan Antonio Corretjer (April 1983)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateApril 2, 1983 PublishersFree PR POW campaign

April 1983 program for a cultural and political event in support of Puerto Rican POWs featuring Juan Antonio Corretjer.

BLA Communique (July 16, 1983)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJuly 16, 1983 PublishersBlack Liberation Army

Black Liberation Army communique dated July 16, 1983.

Breakthrough (Vol. 7 No. 1, Winter 1983) — PFOC

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough DateJanuary 1, 1983 AuthorsPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee VolumeVol. 7 No. 1

Issue of *Breakthrough*, the magazine of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) — the above-ground white anti-imperialist organization that emerged in 1975 from the Weather Underground's 1974 Prairie Fire manifesto. PFOC was the principal U.S. white-radical formation supporting Black, Puerto Rican, Native American, and Chicano national liberation movem...

Brinks Trial Testimony — Sundiata Acoli (1983)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1983 AuthorsSundiata Acoli

Trial transcript of Sundiata Acoli's testimony in the 1983 Brinks armored-truck expropriation case, situating the Revolutionary Armed Task Force action within the history of the Black Liberation Movement.

Capsule Summary of the Marion Lockdown

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Includes timeline and description of conditions.

LIBERTAD - Spring 1983

CollectionLibertad DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersThe National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

COVER: International Demonstrations To Be Held In Support of the MLN 5, The Cat and the Jurors, Statement by Shelley Miller Before the Grand Jury, International Women's Day. INFORMATION SECTION: Demonstrate Your Support for the MLN 5 p.3, Latest News p.4, LSP Denounces Repression Against MLN p.5, On the 3rd Anniversary of the Contamination of Destruction p.7...

LIBERTAD - Vol. IV-V - Winter 1983

CollectionLibertad DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

MLN Denounces FBI Attacks; All Out on Jan 19th@; Symbols of resistance; Lares Opens the Path to Jayuya; The Vieques Document; Thunder and Lightning; To Cure Haydee is More Thank a Pleasure; In Memory of Angel; POW; Budget to exploit Mines Tripled; Latest News; Mexico: The Frozen Revolution; FALN Communiques.

New Afrikan Freedom Fighter - V 2-1 - March 1983

DateMarch 1, 1983 PublishersFreedom Archives

Periodical on Black Liberation; containing numerous articles highlighting the right and duty for Black and African peoples' to question and resist the violence of the U.S. government by any means. Also includes messages of solidarity for political prisoners; statements in direct opposition to state collaborators/ infiltrators; as well as articles that advoca...

Statements from International Women's Day, 1983

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Statements in honor of International Women's Day, 1983, in solidarity with all freedom fighters and prisoners of war.

Take a Stand Against the Klan! October 1983

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateOctober 1, 1983 PublishersJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee

Reports on recent incidences of racist attacks against Black people in which the justice system has failed to put away the white attackers. These stories were not carried by most Chicago news outlets, leaving white people with a distorted view of the presence of racism and violence against Black and Third World people around them. Includes a map of the Chica...

The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika - V 9-3 - Dec 18, 1983

CollectionRepublic of New Afrika DateDecember 18, 1983 PublishersFreedom Archives

Black Nation Day Brings Unity To RNA. Also, New Afrika Wins Brinks Case, Fulani is Free, Inside the Brinks Story (with specific focus on the political prisoners captured as a result of that action), Dark Days in Grenada (on the US invasion of Grenada), New Afrikan Political Scene, more.

They're Talking at Sing Sing

DateJanuary 10, 1983 PublishersFreedom Archives

Photo with BLA sign from cell

To the People / Al Pueblo

CollectionMLN-M DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional

This bilingual (English-Spanish) flyer calls for support of William Guillermo Morales who was arrested by INTERPOL and FBI for his involvement with Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion.

Update - June 18, 1983

CollectionLibertad DateJune 18, 1983 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

15 Year Sentence Reduced to 3 Years Due to Phony Charges in MLN Case; Extradition Delayed William Morales to Face Murder Charges in Mexico!; New Conspiracy Against Haydee Torres; Noya/Ciontron-Fiallo Case Postponed; Alberto De Jesus-Berrios Imprisoned in Miami!

Update - May 21, 1983

CollectionLibertad DateMay 21, 1983 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Sentencing Date Set for MLN 5; En Route to Miami, Florida Alberto De Jesus-Berros Transferred!; CDP National Tour; New Movement Announces Tour With Shelley Miller; US Increases Militarization of Puerto Rico; Ecumenical Hearing Great Success!;

War on the War Makers: documents and communiques from the West German Left

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJune 1, 1983 PublishersJohn Brown Book Club

Anti-NATO demonstration in Berlin, June 11, 1982, summary of a brochure by autonomous and anti-imerialst groups in West Germany; Communiques from the German Armed Movement: attack on U.S. Air Force/NATO headquarters in Ramstein, Red Army Faction, Aug. 31, 1981; Tires Slashed on U.S. government cars in Frankfurt; Assassination Attempt on NATO Commander, U.S....

Brink’s Trial Closing Statement

CollectionThe Anarchist Library Year1983 AuthorsKuwasi Balagoon PublishersThe Anarchist Library

Kuwasi Balagoon Brink’s Trial Closing Statement September 13, 1983 Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.

Brink’s Trial Opening Statement

CollectionThe Anarchist Library Year1983 AuthorsKuwasi Balagoon PublishersThe Anarchist Library

Kuwasi Balagoon Brink’s Trial Opening Statement July 11, 1983 The electronic version of the source text, Trial Statement of New Afrikan Revolutionary Kuwasi... Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.

Letters from Prison

CollectionThe Anarchist Library Year1983 PublishersThe Anarchist Library

Kuwasi Balagoon Letters from Prison 1983-1985 Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.