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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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Ain't Nothing Changed!!! — Ruchell Magee (1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1975 AuthorsRuchell Cinque Magee PublishersEugene Coalition / Liberation Support Movement

1975 pamphlet by Ruchell Cinque Magee — sole surviving defendant of the August 7, 1970 Marin County courthouse incident — examining the U.S. court system and the conspiracy surrounding his case. Distributed by the Eugene Coalition and the Liberation Support Movement.

Armed Struggle: Natural Response to Fascism

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year1975 AuthorsMartin Sostre PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Martin Sostre's prison writings on armed antifascism.

Attica News April 28, 1975

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateApril 28, 1975 PublishersAttica Brothers Offense Defense/Attica Brothers Legal Defense

Contents include: Amnesty Now!!; Is This a Fair Jury for the Attica Brothers?; "They were there and that's enough"; Splitting the Sky

Attica News June 26, 1975

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateJune 26, 1975 PublishersAttica Brothers Offense Defense/Attica Brothers Legal Defense

Contents include: Summing Up a Frameup; 'Guilty of being conscious...'; 3 Bros. Acquitted; Racists Creeping, Mayor Sleeping; SWAT-- alive and well in Buffalo; Inside the Walls; The Death of Tony Williams; Joann's Trial Begins; Keeping up with the news-- cover-ups; The Truth of the Matter

Attica News March 28, 1975

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateMarch 28, 1975 PublishersAttica Brothers Offense Defense/Attica Brothers Legal Defense

Contents include: New Attica Trial Will Expose State Crimes; From the Belly of the Whale; KKK Repression at Napanoch; A Black Woman's Perspective; Women's Action Puts Davits on the Spot; Who is Governor Carey?; Human Beings--Not Machines; Letter From Jail- Prison Economics; Criticism of Attica Now- Support Struggle in the Courtroom

Awakening of a Dragon

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJuly 1, 1975 PublishersBlack Community News Letter

Celebrate the Victory of Vietnam Over U.S. Imperialism; Honor Our Fallen One (Melvin Rema Kearney); Communique from the Black Liberation Army; United Nations May 30th Statement in Support of Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners; World's Largest Dope Pushers!; Doctors Are Middlemen; One Pill Can Kill; Methadone Sells Big on Street; more.

CCPO — Determined Sentencing Proposal (January 1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1975 PublishersCoordinating Council of Prisoner Organizations

January 1975 CCPO position paper analyzing determinate-sentencing proposals then under debate in California.

Church Committee Hearings Vol. 2 — Huston Plan

CollectionChurch Committee Reports Year1975 PublishersU.S. Senate

Senate hearings on the Huston Plan for expanded domestic intelligence. Documents the Nixon-era plan that authorized illegal surveillance against Weather Underground, BPP, and antiwar-movement prisoners.

Church Committee Hearings Vol. 6 — Federal Bureau of Investigation

CollectionChurch Committee Reports Year1975 PublishersU.S. Senate

Senate hearings on FBI intelligence activities. Testimony documenting FBI operations against political prisoners (King, BPP, SDS); foundational for COINTELPRO-era PP cases.

Church Committee Hearings Vol. 7 — Covert Action

CollectionChurch Committee Reports Year1975 PublishersU.S. Senate

Senate hearings on covert action. Companion to the FBI volume; addresses CIA and FBI surveillance overlap relevant to MLK and antiwar prosecutions.

Communique - From some warriors in South Dakota

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJuly 9, 1975 PublishersFreedom Archives

Written to prairie fire, the weather underground and all third world and anti-imperialist allies. Native American Warriors from South Dakota express support and connect the Vietnamese Victory to their struggle against US empire and imperialism.

FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Memorandum (July 17, 1975)

CollectionFBI FOIA — COINTELPRO TWWA DateJuly 17, 1975 AuthorsFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) PublishersFBI / FOIA release

Internal FBI document from the COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO surveillance file on the Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA), the multiracial socialist-feminist organization that grew out of SNCC's Black Women's Liberation Committee and was active 1970-1980. Released under FOIA and mirrored from the Internet Archive item twwa_cointelpro. Document date: July 17...

FBI Files on Cesar Chavez (1966-1975) — Consolidated

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1975 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

Consolidated PDF of FBI HQ files on Chavez and the United Farm Workers.

Groundswell: Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Distributing Committee

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateFebruary 1, 1975 PublishersPrarie Fire Distributing Committee

In this issue: articles about PFOC traveling in the midwest and south; Oakland Veterans Against the War/ Winter Soldier Organization; Puerto Rican Solidarity Day Rally; Boston; more.

In Defense of Armed Struggle

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) DateJanuary 1, 1975 PublishersThe Coordinating Committee of the Nationalist Part of Puerto Rico in the United States

Discussion of U.S. imperialism in light of the FALN bombing of 1975.

Letter to the editors of the Daily News

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateOctober 1, 1975 PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

Letter to the editors of the Daily News about the misrepresentation of PFOC

Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee — News Update (May 7, 1975)

CollectionLexington Six DateMay 7, 1975 PublishersLexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee

A May 7, 1975 news update from the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee on the resistance to the FBI and the federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky. It reports on the "formal request" to interrogate ten people in the Susan Saxe case, the four women then jailed for refusing to testify, the Sixth Circuit's April 28 statement questioning the purpose o...

Looking Back — BLA Unit 3 (1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1975 PublishersBlack Liberation Army

1975 BLA Unit 3 reflective essay on the trajectory of Black Liberation Army organizing.

Osawatomie No. 1

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateJanuary 1, 1975 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

Contents: 3 WHERE WE STAND DON'T MOURN, ORGANIZE! 7 THE BATTLE OF BOSTON: An Investigation of ROAR 13 POPULATION CONTROL 15 TOOLBOX INTERNATIONAL!SM 18 THE WAR COMES HOME: Roots of the Economic Crisis 25 FIREWORKS SMOKE SIGNALS 27 REVIEW: CUBAN WOMEN NOW 31 US. FAILURE IN CAMBODIA

Osawatomie No. 2

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateJanuary 1, 1975 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

Contents: 6 A MIGHTY ARMY: An Investigation of Women Workers 14 THE POLITICS OF DAYCARE 15 VICTORY IN VIETNAM 18 THE TRIAL: STORIES FROM A TRUCK STOP 20 VICTORY TO THE PONCE CEMENT STRIKE 22 IMPERIALISM = HUNGER 29 June 25th: MOZAMBIQUE INDEPENDENCE DAY 32 The Unemployed Get Organized 33 REVIEW: LONGTIME CALIFORN'

Osawatomie No. 3

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateJanuary 1, 1975 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

Contents 3 WHERE WE STAND 7 PRISON: BREAK THE CHAINS 14 REVIEW: Three Books about Women 16 Fighting For Our Film 18 WUO Bombs Kennecott 19 Defend the Portuguese Revolution 22 TOOLBOX: Socialism 23 Boston: The Battle Rages 26 FIREWORKS. Korea: The First Defeat 28 THE TRAIL More Stories from a Truck Stop 30 Country Music

Politics in Command: On the Question of Armed Struggle

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateJune 1, 1975 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

Statement describing and explaining the components of revolutionary war and how it is the only way to finally defeat imperialism and build socialism. It also discusses three "incorrect" strategies of guerrilla warfare including war against fascism theory, the foco theory and the retribution theory.

Prisoners in Revolution — Response to 'Prairie Fire' (1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1975 AuthorsJaan Laaman; John Yancey; Richard Williams; Roger Boberg PublishersPrisoner-authored

1975 prisoner-authored response to the Weather Underground's 'Prairie Fire' statement, theorizing the role of prisons in U.S. imperialism. Written by future Ohio 7 / United Freedom Front members Jaan Laaman and Richard Williams together with John Yancey and Roger Boberg — among the earliest joint statements between Black and white anti-imperialist prisoners...

The Black Panther — Vol. 12 No. 24 (Jan 4, 1975)

CollectionThe Black Panther Newspaper DateJanuary 4, 1975 AuthorsBlack Panther Party PublishersBlack Panther Party / Marxists Internet Archive VolumeVol. 12 No. 24

Issue of The Black Panther, the newspaper of the Black Panther Party (Vol. 12 No. 24), published 1975-01-04. Part of the paper's 1971-1980 national run; digitized by the Marxists Internet Archive and linked here.

The Black Panther — Vol. 12 No. 25 (Jan 11, 1975)

CollectionThe Black Panther Newspaper DateJanuary 11, 1975 AuthorsBlack Panther Party PublishersBlack Panther Party / Marxists Internet Archive VolumeVol. 12 No. 25

Issue of The Black Panther, the newspaper of the Black Panther Party (Vol. 12 No. 25), published 1975-01-11. Part of the paper's 1971-1980 national run; digitized by the Marxists Internet Archive and linked here.