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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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After four years [Press Release]

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 1, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Press Release four years into the organization's campaign

Arm the Spirit (August 1979)

CollectionFreedom Archives Year1979 PublishersArm the Spirit / Freedom Archives

Revolutionary prisoners' newspaper covering political-prisoner organizing inside U.S. prisons.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 10, 1979)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1979 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Follows the British Persons Unknown trial (Taff Ladd, Vincent Stevenson, Ronan Bennett, Iris Mills, Trevor Dawton) and examines leftism in Great Britain.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 8, May 1979)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 1, 1979 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Vol. 5 No. 8 of the Anarchist Black Cross's Black Flag, May 1979.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 9, July 1979)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJuly 1, 1979 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Contains Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's manifesto to the international anarchist movement and an article about the British punk band Crass.

Black News - V 4-5 - February 1979

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateFebruary 1, 1979 PublishersEAST Organization

Editorial: Repression of Blacks; FBI Sued for $100 Million; and Who Really Killed Malcolm? Also- Cointelpro Continues; Assata Shakur; Political Prisoners in US; National Notes; Jitu Weusi on Cointelpro; P.O.W. Forum; Dhoruba Moore: P .O .D .W.; B.U.F.M.L.King March; Forum Exposes NCLC group; Letters to the Editor; Ethiopian Foreign Minister; I.R.S. Spys on B...

Breakthrough (Vol. 3 No. 1, Spring 1979) — PFOC

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough DateMarch 1, 1979 AuthorsPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee VolumeVol. 3 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...

Dear Friends Donation Letter

CollectionGovernment Repression DateSeptember 17, 1979 AuthorsDave Dellinger, Emile de Antonio, Florynce Kennedy, Grace Paley PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Donation letter for the Committee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct.

Dear Friends Puerto Rico Victory Letter

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMay 30, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Letter celebrating the freedom of William Guillermo Morales.

Death to the Klan! December 1979

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee DateDecember 1, 1979 PublishersFreedom Archives

This issue of the newsletter includes articles about Klan activity, Zionist and white supremacist unity in opposition to Arab and Black liberation, the struggle against gentrification in Brooklyn, a march against the Klan in Texas, the assassination of Puerto Rican freedom fighter Angel Rodriguez Cristobal, a forum on U.S. imperialism and the struggle to fre...

Death to the Klan! November 1979

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee DateNovember 1, 1979 PublishersFreedom Archives

This is the first issue of the newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Articles include Assata Shakur's escape from prison, an overview of advances in the Black liberation movement, an update on the fight to free the Pontiac Brothers, the murder by white police of a Black man in Texas, an editorial about Klan terror, the fight against white suprema...

FBI File on John Trudell

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1979 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

FBI file on AIM leader and Radio Free Alcatraz broadcaster John Trudell. Documents FBI targeting of Trudell that some argue connects to the 1979 arson death of his family; AIM context for Peltier.

LIBERTAD - Vol. I-I - June 1979

CollectionLibertad DateJune 1, 1979 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Contents: William Guillermo Morales is Free! Libre!;Regarding Carlos Romero Barcelo; Viva Lucha Armada; De Pie y en Guerra.

Letter to NY Times Editor

CollectionGovernment Repression DateFebruary 15, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Letter to the editor New York Times.

Libertad (Vol. 1 No. 2, January 1979)

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateJanuary 1, 1979 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño VolumeVol. 1 No. 2

Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...

Murdered by the U.S. Government: Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1979 PublishersFreedom Archives

A movement solidarity flyer protesting the November 1979 death of Puerto Rican independence and socialist activist Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal in the federal prison at Tallahassee, Florida. It condemns his death — officially ruled a suicide — as a political killing by the U.S. government, and ties it to the Vieques struggle and the wider movement for Puerto Ri...

National Peoples Moratorium 1979 — Against Police, INS, BIA Crimes and Grand Jury / FBI Repression

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression DateJanuary 1, 1979 PublishersNew York Committee Against Repression

Bilingual (English/Spanish) 1979 flyer for a conference to discuss and organize against government repression of social movements.

Plaintiffs Challenge Government's Cover-UP At First Public Court Appearance

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJuly 6, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Plaintiffs Challenge Government's Cover-UP At First Public Court Appearance.

Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter No. 10 (December 1979)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateDecember 1, 1979 PublishersPontiac Prisoners Support Coalition

December 1979 newsletter from the Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition examining state tactics, trial proceedings, and calls for community participation in defense of the Pontiac Brothers.

Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter No. 8 (October 1979)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateOctober 1, 1979 AuthorsPontiac Prisoners Support Coalition PublishersPontiac Prisoners Support Coalition

October 1979 Pontiac Brothers support newsletter covering trial venue changes, the mobilization of white-supremacist groups outside the courthouse, and the coalition's analysis of the alleged frame-up of the 31 prisoners charged with murder, conspiracy, and mob action over the 1978 Pontiac prison rebellion.

Rape, Racism, and Reality

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateJanuary 1, 1979 PublishersQuest

On the interaction of rape and racism as supporting the chauvinist Anglo-centric social order.

Surveillance Targets Push for Trial of Ex-FBI Officials

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 2, 1979 AuthorsRobert Pear PublishersThe Washington Star

reproduction of the original article

Targets of FBI Crimes Charge Collusion Between Prosecution and Defense in Washington Trial of Former FBI Officials

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Targets of FBI Crimes Charge Collusion Between Prosecution and Defense in Washington Trial of Former FBI Officials.

The Black Panther — Vol. 18 No. 29 (Jan 12, 1979)

CollectionThe Black Panther Newspaper DateJanuary 12, 1979 AuthorsBlack Panther Party PublishersBlack Panther Party / Marxists Internet Archive VolumeVol. 18 No. 29

Issue of The Black Panther, the newspaper of the Black Panther Party (Vol. 18 No. 29), published 1979-01-12. Part of the paper's 1971-1980 national run; digitized by the Marxists Internet Archive and linked here.

The Black Panther — Vol. 19 No. 10 (Oct 1, 1979)

CollectionThe Black Panther Newspaper DateOctober 1, 1979 AuthorsBlack Panther Party PublishersBlack Panther Party / Marxists Internet Archive VolumeVol. 19 No. 10

Issue of The Black Panther, the newspaper of the Black Panther Party (Vol. 19 No. 10), published 1979-10-01. Part of the paper's 1971-1980 national run; digitized by the Marxists Internet Archive and linked here.