This collection contains materials from people imprisoned for their work in anti-imperialist organizations and political movements.
David Gilbert was a North American political prisoner captured in 1981 at Nyack, NY during an attempted expropriation by a unit of the Black Liberation Army. He was released in 2021 and remains dedicated to human liberation.
Alan Berkman (1945-2009) was an American doctor and activist in the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground. Released after 8 years in prison for armed robbery and explosives possession, Berkman worked on homelessness and AIDS.
Ed Mead is a former political prisoner who was arrested for his participation in George Jackson Brigade actions during the 70s. He spent 18 years in prison and while inside helped found Men Against Sexism which stopped prisoner-on-prisoner rape.
The LA Five were five anti-imperialists who were arrested in Los Angeles in 1977, charged with intending to bomb the office of right wing California Sen. John Briggs. The arrests were the result of years of government infiltration and surveillance.
Marilyn Buck was imprisoned for 25 years in the united states for her anti-imperialist actions carried out in support of national liberation, women's liberation, social and economic justice. She was released in July 2010 and died a couple of weeks later.
The Ohio 7 were members of the The United Freedom Front (UFF), a small North American clandestine organization active in the 1970s and 1980s. Between 1975 and 1984 the UFF carried out numerous armed actions.
Silvia Baraldini is an Italian Nationalist most known for her work as a White Anti-Imperialist.
The Resistance Conspiracy case was a political prosecution starting in 1985 in which seven anti-imperialist activists were charged with targeted bombings from 1983-1985.
This collection contains materials from the Irish struggle for self-determination. Specific focuses of the collection include information on the Irish Republican Army, prison resistance, and international solidarity campaigns.
The periodical Black Flag centers on anarchist news, important figures, and developments in Europe and the Western world.
Found 69 records
Reproduction of Eduardo Geleano's personal essay excerpted from El Pais, 28 March 1990.
Copies of the "Open Letter" from the defendants of the RCC with signatories. There are three different formats which gain more signatories in successive versions.
Reproduction of the arraignment statement from Anti-imperialist Dr. Alan Berkman in which he details the devastation he has witnessed at the hands of the U.S. government. He references his experiences in the 1971 Attica Rebellion; anti-black violence in Lowndes County, Alabama; Wounded Knee in light of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. He indicts the U.S. government for its role in carrying out atrocities and massacres, positioning the actions for which he is being accused as an attempt to stop these crimes in the name of human rights and justice.
This issue focuses on the false imprisonment of Noel and Marie Murray in Ireland and Matthew Lygate in Scotland.
This issue covers the murder of Laureano Cerrado Santos. Also includes an obituary of Aaron Rogat, one of the main collaborators of the periodical. Contains articles about The Sex Pistols, punks, the problems with trade unions, and press hysteria.
Features article about the current state of the Murray Trials and the release of Ronan Stenson. Also, includes an article about the Hull prisoners demonstration.
This issue focuses mainly on the execution of Siegfried Buback. Also reviews Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Focuses on conflicts in Germany between anarchists and German police. Contains several articles pertaining to the debate over trade unions throughout Europe.
This issue follows the Persons Unknown trial involving Taff Ladd, Vincent Stevenson, Ronan Bennett, Iris Mills, and Trevor Dawton. Also examines leftism in Great Britain.
Contains a biography of Lorenzo Komboa Erwin.