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Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1985Volume Number: Vol. 9-1 Spring-SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Disturbing their Peace p. 2 - The Next Wave: Thoughts on Revolutionary Feminism p. 4 - Azania: the Fire This Time by New Afrikan People's Organization p. 15 - De Pie y en Guerra, interview with Puerto Rican POW Oscar Lopez Rivera p. 23 - Don Juan Antonio Corretjer 1908-1985 p. 25 - The New Right: with God on Their Side p. 35 - From the Clandestine Movement: Red Guerrilla Resistance Bombs NY Patrolmen's Benevolent Association p. 45 - Can't Kill the Spirit: Staements from Revolutionary Prisoners: New York 8 p. 47 - Ohio Five p. 48 - Susan Rosenberg and Tim Blunk p. 50 - Write to the Prisoners p. 51
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1986Volume Number: Vol. 10-1 Spring-SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Azania: a Constant State of Emergency p. 1 - When Democracy Turns to Torture: Human Rights Violations Against POWS and Political Prisoners in the US p. 3 - personal testimonies: Sekou Odinga p. 7 - Alejandrina Torres p. 9 - Standing Deer p. 11 - Alan Berkman p. 12 - Carol Manning p. 13 -Statement from Ramsey Clark and William Kunstler p. 14 - El Salvador Vencera! Statements from the FMLN p. 15 - After Marcos, interview with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines p. 22 - Puerto Rico: Los Yanquis Quieren Fuego: Statement from the Hartford 13 p. 31 - The Lessons of August 30, Julio Rosado, Eastern Regional Coordinator, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, MLN-PR p. 32 - Free Mutulu Shakur, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 34 - Write to the Prisoners p. 35
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Regional Young Adult ProjectYear: 1982Volume Number: No. 13 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: B.L.A. Communique; Support New Afrikan Freedom Fighters; More on Revolutionary Task Force; Puerto Rican Socialist League; Black August Organizing Committee; James York; Pan Africanist Conference, Azania.
Moncada Library Newsletter Moncada Library Newsletter
Author: Moncada LibraryPublisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationDate: 10/1981Volume Number: OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Moncada Library
Newsletter featuring articles on the Azanian liberation movement, the Anti-Springboks Five, Native American Sovereignty and the encampment at Yellow Thunder, Park Slope's "anti-drug" campaign, women and police intimidation, and the Chairman of P.A.C.'s visit to Harlem.
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1977Volume Number: No. 6 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
In this Issue: Soweto: Era of Mass Struggles Begin; Soweto and the South African Economy; Southern African Liberation Movements Must Take a Stand Against Soviet Social Imperialism; The National Question in Azania: The Native Versus the National Question; The Falsified History of African Dispossession of Their Land and Country in Azania; Why the Soviet Union is an Imperialist Country; Aspects of Social Imperialism in Africa; Who are the Katangese Gendarmes; Labour Laws in Angola; more
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1977Volume Number: No. 7 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
This issue dedicated to Steve Biko, symbol of the Militant Resistance of Azanian Youth and masses led by BPC. In this Issue: Steve Biko Speaks; PAC Argues Colonial Nature of South Africa at UN; Settler Colonialism in South Africa and Israel; Letter of Comintern to SACP; Bias of Anti-Apartheid Movement; Trotskyite Distortions of the National Question in Azania; Social Imperialism Interference in Namibia; The National Question and Political Development of African States; Culture and Colonialism in Black Africa; Education in South Africa; more
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1978Volume Number: No. 8 MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
This Issue Dedicated to Robert Sobukwe, Great African Patriot, Pan-Africanist and Azanian Revolutionary Leader. In this Issue: The Black Man\'s Quest; Documents from the Soweto Uprising; ANC-CP Prefers Colonial and Racist Name to Azania; The Soviet Threat in the Horn; Cuban Merenaries in Guinea; Some background to Congo-Zaire; Social Fascism in Angola; more
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1978Volume Number: No. 9 JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
In this Issue: Africanist Congress of Azania; the Marxist-Leninist Opposition in the Revisionist South African Communist Party; Azanian Class Struggle and South African Colonialism; Imperialism and Mineral Resources in Southern Africa; The Rot in the ANC of South Africa; Revisionism and the Cultural Revolution; Excerpts from a History of Swaziland; Steve Biko on Social-Imperialism; On the Theory of the Three Worlds; Interview with UNITA Commander; and more.
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1978Volume Number: No. 10 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
In this Issue: The National Question in Azania; The Relationship between Racialism and National Oppression in Azania; The Youth in Azania; African Revolutionary Intellectuals and the Social Transformation of Africa; ZANU and the Zimbabwean Revolution; Kampuchea; more
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1979Volume Number: No. 13 OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
Issue Dedicated to Zeph Mothuping and the Bethal 18. In this Issue: Problems of Fusion of Marxism-Leninism with the National Liberation Movement in Africa; Neo-Marxism and the Bogus Theory of \"Racial Capitalism\"; Sobukwe and his Ideas; South African Expansionism; China\'s Foreign Policy; more