Records
Black Liberation Army Communique (November 5, 1981)
BLA Coordinating Committee communique issued shortly after the October 20, 1981 Rockland County Brink's expropriation, including an essay on the Strategic Alliance of the Armed Military Forces of the Revolutionary Nationalist and Anti-Imperialist Movement.
Breakthrough (Vol. 5 No. 1, Spring 1981) — 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...
Coming of Age: A New Afrikan Revolutionary
BPP member Safiya Bukhari's memoir of her radicalization and imprisonment.
Death to the Klan! Special Edition Winter 1981
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In this special edition issue: Revolutionary Struggle Escalates as Government Wages Terrorist Assault; Black Liberation Army Communique on the strategic alliance of the armed military forces of the Revolutionary Nationalist and Anti-Imperialist Movement; Memorial Service Honoring New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Mt...
Dona Consuelo Speaks...
This pamphlet includes a message written by the 11 Puerto Rican Prisoners of War to Dona Consuelo regarding the rededication of a childcare center in Dona's name. It also features a short essay from an interview with Dona Consuelo. Contents: Solidarity Message from the 11 Puerto Rican POWs; Interview with Dona Consuelo (taken from El Nuevo Dia); Talking with...
Gay Liberation- 1981 What are we fighting for?
statement on whether the LBGTQ community can work within the system for liberation.
Hunger Strike Halted statement by the 10 P.O.W.
Statement of the FALN regarding ending of 10 day hunger strike in protest of denying Alfredo Mendez Habeas Corpus.
International Day of Support for the Puerto Rican POW Hunger Strike (May 26, 1981)
Bilingual mobilization document for the May 26, 1981 international day of support for the Puerto Rican POWs' hunger strike, including messages of solidarity with Irish liberation prisoners.
Kathy Boudin — Part 01
FBI HQ file on Kathy Boudin, Weather Underground member. Surveillance and fugitive file on Boudin, prosecuted for the 1981 Brink's robbery alongside David Gilbert, Mutulu Shakur, and Sekou Odinga.
LIBERTAD - Special Edition - August 1981
To Oppose the Authority of the US Government by Force; Statement to the Jury; Closing Argument; What Happened to Alfredo Mendez?; Preliminary Autopsy of an Act of Cowardice; The Enemy Visits; A Closer Look at Behavior Modification; Message from Carmen Valentin;
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-V - September 1981
Repression Escalates in Puerto Rico; More Visits from the Enemy; Vieques: Resistance Grows; Chronology of Repression; Letter to the Decolonization Committee; Tal Al-Zaatar: The Legend; Speech at Guanica; Questions and Answers About the Irish Struggle; Letters; Poetry
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-VI - October 1981
All out to Leavenworth!; New York Campaign of Police Terror; From occupied Mexico on Police Brutality; Message to the Grito De Lares; Pages from History: El Grito De Jayuya; From the 11 POW\\'s Grito de Lares Part I; Apartheid Rugby Tour Defeated; Poetry; Write to Companeros; More Visits from he Enemy;
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-VII - November 1981
Grand Jury Subpoenas Ricardo Romero Julio Rosady and Andres Rosado; Massive Repression Sweeps New York City Following the Capture of Combatants; Government to use Puppet Mendez at Witness in Negron-Rosa Case; Declararaciones messages grito de Jayuya; Successful Tour in Support of Mobilization for Leavenworth by Nat\\'l Committee; Declaration against Police S...
Libertad (Vol. 2 No. 8, December 1981)
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...
Message From a Revolutionary Freedom Fighter — Judy Clark (October 1981)
October 1981 letter by Judy Clark, written after her arrest at Nyack, framing herself as a revolutionary anti-imperialist freedom fighter.
National Rally to Support Francisco "Kiko" Martínez — defense materials (1981)
A nine-page compilation of materials supporting Chicano-movement attorney Francisco "Kiko" Martínez, assembled around the National Rally held in Pueblo, Colorado on January 24, 1981 — three days before the first of the federal trials charging him with mailing explosives in 1973. It gathers the rally flyers in English and Spanish, the Rally Committee's Januar...
Principles of Unity [Draft]
Manifesto and unifying statement of the Women's Committee Against Genocide.
Speech by Guillermo Suarez at Anti-Klan Conference, San Francisco
Transcript of speech by Guillermo Suarez about Klan oppression along the U.S. Mexico border and Mexicano resistance.
Statement by the Eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Affirmation the legitimacy of the Puerto Rican independence struggle and that FALN 11 are prisoners of war.
Statement of the 10 Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Statement of concern for the disappearance of Alfredo Mendez.
Steven Guerra, MLN Saturday
Reproduction of speech on the Puerto Rican National struggle against the Klu Klux Klan.
Stop the Attacks- Lesbians- Fight Back!
Information on the Family Protection Act, the Moral Majority and its threat to LGBTQ liberation.
Tip of the Iceberg (December 1980)
Formerly Update. Cover Story: Stop the Frame-Up of Eve Rosahn! BLA & Revolutionary Armed Task Force Advance the Struggle (Editorial); COINTELPRO - The War is Raging; Grand Jury Attacks Puerto Rican Independence Movement; Forum Builds Unity Against Repression; Senate Committee - Arm of COINTELPRO; An Open Letter to Friends and Supporters of Clark v. USA; Smas...
Tip of the Iceberg (February 1981)
Formerly Update. Clark Demands Hearing on FBI Attacks; Editorial on the Iranian Hostage Crisis; Campus Movement Under COINTELPRO Attack; The Case of David Truong: US Continues War Against Vietnam; Free the Pontiac Brothers; Take a Stand Against the Klan; Updates on the fines of FBI agents Mark Felt and William Miller, Amiri Baraka Fights Police Frame Up and...
Tip of the Iceberg (May 1981)
Clark Plaintiffs Confront FBI; Victory in Pontiac Trial - State's Strategy Defeated; US "Anti-Terrorism": Counterinsurgency of the 80's; US Gov't Escalates Attacks on Black Liberation Movement; Reagan Pardons Cointelpro Criminals; Arab Student Fights Deportation; Zairean CIA Agents in the US; Red Squad Settlement Continues COINTELPRO Cover-up; Committee Targ...