Records
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 1 (1978)
Document submitted on behalf of the four imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalists (Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores, Andres Figueroa Cordero) laying out the factual and legal basis for their release after 25 years.
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 2 (Lolita Lebron, 1978)
Memorandum from imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rico and the Nationalist prisoners taken after the November 1, 1954 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A Decade in Defense of Human Rights 1968-1978
A Decade in Struggle, 1968-1978 NCBL Report
Amnesty International Report 1978 (excerpt)
Excerpt of Amnesty International's annual report covering July 1977 – June 1978 (POL 10/01/1978), including the United States section: the organization's work on the Charlotte Three (James Earl Grant, Charles Parker, T.J. Reddy), its adoption of the Wilmington Ten as Prisoners of Conscience and the campaign for their pardon, trial observation for Leonard Pel...
Arm The Spirit - First Edition
First Issue - formerly Voices From Within (the one and only issue was banned hence the name change) Cover Story: Message from the Editors; The Current Situation in the Political Prisoner Unit AKA Management Control Unit at California State Prison at San Quentin; Lewisburg political prisoners made scapegoat for prison fires (Michael Ashanti Alston); A draft p...
Attica: Then and Now
Monograph focusing on the Attica Prison Rebellion, its causes, the aftermath and the campaign to free Dacajeweiah. Contents include: Introduction; Prisons: Who Goes and Why?; The Movement Grows; The Uprising; The Prosecution; Who is Dacajeweiah; What is Being Done; Epilogue.
Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 3, February 1978)
Contains a biography of Black anarchist political prisoner Lorenzo Komboa Ervin.
Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 4, May 1978)
Focuses on the post-Franco transition in Spain, featuring articles from the Spanish anarchist journal Bicicleta.
Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 5, 1978)
Retrospective on the 1968 reorganization of the Anarchist Black Cross.
Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 6, October 1978)
Focuses on conflicts with the police in West Germany and includes articles on feminist movements within the anarchist movement.
Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 7, 1978)
Vol. 5 No. 7 of the Anarchist Black Cross's Black Flag magazine.
Breakthrough (Spring 1978)
Anti-imperialist struggle sharpening; PFOC self-criticism p. 1 - Palestine will win! P. 8 -I declare (poem by Mahmoud Darweesh) p. 23 - IWY Houston new stage of struggle p. 24 - notes from an Afrikan POW journal by New Afrikan Prisoners Organization p. 37 - Press statement by the African People's Socialist Party p. 52 - Free the L.A. Five p. 54 - speech by A...
Breakthrough (Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 1978) — PFOC
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...
Breakthrough (Vol. 2 No. 2, Fall 1978) — PFOC
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...
COINTELPRO - Domestic Subverside Warfare: The Case of Clark, et. al. v. The United States
Pamphlet laying out the background of COINTELPRO and Clark v. USA
Discurso Pronunciado por Juan Antonio Corretjer
Discurso Pronunciado por Juan Antonio Corretjer, Secretaio-General, Liga Socialista Puertorriquena, En Nueva York, Junio 2, 1978.
Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence and its Impact on the Public Security — Senate Hearings, 1978
1978 Senate Subcommittee hearings (95th Congress) lamenting the post-Church Committee curtailment of FBI domestic intelligence. PFOC, the Weather Underground, the FALN, and the BLA are repeatedly cited as the threats the committee believed the FBI was no longer monitoring adequately. A key document for understanding the political backlash that fed the FBI's...
Justice amerikkkan style in the DESSIE WOODS CASE
Defense lawyers on behalf of Dessie Woods have filed a writ of habeas corpus with the middle District Federal Court in Macon, GA. The writ of habeas corpus documents that many state and federal violations of Dessie Woods' rights, and asks the court to show cause as to why in light of these violations, Dessie Woods is still being held in prison. The writ is r...
Liberation Calendar 1978
Calendar published by the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization including historic events in left history. Each month highlights a different struggle, ranging from national liberation movements to prison rebellions, with an emphasis on New Afrika.
Marion Prison: Hell In a Very Small Space
Article on the social, political and personal experiences of prisoners at the Marion Lockdown.
National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research
Statement with background information about COINTELPRO and the goals of the National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research
Police Repression — N.Y. Committee Against Repression (1978)
Monograph on police murders and police/FBI alliances against oppressed communities, framing repression as the U.S. government's answer to the just struggle of oppressed people.
Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter No. 1 (October 1978)
Founding newsletter of the Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition (October 1978) — formed in the wake of the July 22, 1978 Pontiac Correctional Center rebellion in Illinois, which left three guards dead and led to the indictment of 31 'Pontiac Brothers' on capital charges. Includes the coalition's founding principles and an open letter from the Pontiac-Statevil...