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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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COINTELPRO Puerto Rican Groups — Part 1 of 11

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file on 'Groups Seeking Independence for Puerto Rico.' Surveillance file underlying prosecutions of Nationalist Party members and FALN/Macheteros prisoners including Oscar López Rivera.

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 01 of 05

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file targeting the Socialist Workers Party. Documents ten years of warrantless surveillance the SWP successfully sued the FBI over (Socialist Workers v. Attorney General, 1986).

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 05 (Final)

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Final volume of the COINTELPRO-SWP HQ file. Closing memoranda on the SWP disruption program.

COINTELPRO White Hate Groups — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI COINTELPRO file on KKK and white-supremacist groups. Includes informant relationships with klansmen later prosecuted in the Viola Liuzzo and civil rights worker murders.

COINTELPRO — Educator Pamphlet

CollectionFreedom Archives PublishersFreedom Archives

Long-form COINTELPRO history and methods scan distributed for educational use.

COINTELPRO: A Brief Overview

CollectionGovernment Repression DateNovember 8, 1989 AuthorsDhoruba Bin Wahad PublishersFreedom Archives

Short report deals with a background on COINTELPRO, its true purposes and objectives, and how COINTELPRO operations influenced future political and social opinions.

Calculating Torture: 2023 Count of People in Solitary

CollectionSolitary Watch Year2023 PublishersSolitary Watch

National census of people held in solitary confinement.

Caleb Powers — Appeal Circular (Washington, D.C., April 1906)

DateApril 1, 1906 PublishersCaleb Powers Defense Committee

Fundraising circular describing Kentucky Secretary of State Caleb Powers as 'the noted Kentucky political prisoner' in the Goebel assassination case.

California Prisons — Prisoners Take Prisons to Court (1974)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateAugust 5, 1974 AuthorsMark Schwartz PublishersPacific News Service

August 5, 1974 Pacific News Service report on a prisoners' legal suit against the California prison system over conditions in San Quentin's Adjustment Center, filed in the wake of the killing of George Jackson.

California's Dirty Little Secret

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsKenneth Gay PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Kenneth Gay's exposé on California's death row and state prisons.

Cameras Everywhere Safety Nowhere

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsCrimethinc PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Crimethinc critique of surveillance culture and its impact on public safety and movement security.

Campaign to Free Jose Luis Avina (2001)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year2001 PublishersCampaign to Free Jose Luis Avina

2001 campaign packet compiling materials from multiple sources in support of Chicano political prisoner Jose Luis Avina.

Cannon on Haywood (Obituary, 1928)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1928 AuthorsJames P. Cannon PublishersMIA / IWW

James P. Cannon's obituary essay for Big Bill Haywood, May 22, 1928.

Capitalism Has Won a Game But Not the Championship — Benedetti / Buck (1990)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJune 8, 1990 AuthorsMario Benedetti (translation: Marilyn Buck) PublishersClaridad – En Rojo

Essay by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti translated from Spanish by imprisoned anti-imperialist Marilyn Buck, reflecting on socialism after the Cold War.

Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

This pamphlet, written by Michael "Cetewayo" Tabor, a political prisoner part of the Panther 21, deals with heroin and the issue of drug addiction, specifically its effects on the Black community of Harlem. This particular copy was reprinted by the Women's Bail Fund.

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.

Carolyn Baxter Reads Coca Cola 2

CollectionMaterials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies" PublishersFreedom Archives

Carolyn Baxter reads Marilyn Buck's poem on desire.

Casey Goonan support pamphlet (NYC ABCF, February 2026)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateFebruary 1, 2026 AuthorsNYC Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for political prisoner Casey Goonan.

Casey Goonan tri-fold pamphlet (NYC ABCF, October 2025)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateOctober 1, 2025 AuthorsNYC Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for Casey Goonan.

Celling Black Bodies

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsJulia Sudbury PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Julia Sudbury on the carceral state and women of color.

Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Prison Industrial Complex

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsJulia Sudbury PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Julia Sudbury on the intersection of race, gender, and the prison-industrial complex.

Censored Women Speak — Marilyn Buck

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsMarilyn Buck

Essay by Marilyn Buck on political censorship and women's imprisonment, arguing that imprisonment is itself a form of censorship; includes statements by Susan Rosenberg.

Central America Activists — Support the Resistance Conspiracy Case

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersResistance Conspiracy Case support committee

Pamphlet linking the prosecution of RCC defendants to U.S. policy in Central America and asking Central America solidarity activists for support.

Centralia: A Story of Wartime Murder (1922)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1922 PublishersIWW (MIA mirror)

IWW account of the 1919 Centralia Massacre and the wartime persecution of Wesley Everest and Wobbly defendants.

Cesar Chavez — Part 1 of 17

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1973 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. White-House-directed 'special investigation' surveillance of Chavez; relevant to labor-organizer prosecution history.