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Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 2-2 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: life of George Jackson and Attica uprising p. 1 - Attica Brothers Attacked p. 8 - Defend the August 8th Brigade! P. 14 - Claim No Easy Victories: another look at IWY p. 16 - The Longest Walk p. 25 - Esta Lucha No Se Para, interview with Ricardo Romero p. 29 - Free Dessie Woods! photo essay p. 37- US Colonialism's Terrorist Squads in Puerto Rico, statement by the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional p. 41 - Free Geronimo Pratt p. 44 - By Any Means Necessary, writings of the Black Liberation Army p. 50 - Solidarity with the SLA Prisoners of War Billy & Emily Harris courtroom statement p. 58 PFOC analysis p. 61 - Naminia will be Free, interview with Aaron Shihepo, SWAPO Deputy Sec. for Foreign Relations p. 64 - breakthrough evaluation p. 74 - correspondence p. 75
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1980Volume Number: Vol. 4-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Black Nation's Struggle for Land and Independence p. 1 - 'Law and Order' Blueprint for Fascism p. 2 - Assata is Free! BLA Communique p. 12 - Statement from Assata Shakur p. 13 - Puerto Rico: Protect and Defend the Armed Clandestine Movement: "A Nuestro Pueblo" from El Nuevo Dia p. 16 - Statement, Liga Socialista Puertorriquena p. 17 - Statement, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional p. 18 - Vieques: No Turning Back p. 19 - Free Leonard Peltier: Statements from Leonard Peltier published by Leonard Peltier Defense Committee p. 23 - Free the RNA 11: Free the Land! "RNA Freedom Fighters: A Continuing Episode of Human Rights Violations in Amerika" in New Afrikan (Republic of New Afrika) p. 26 - Denial of Self-Determination: A New Afrikan View in New Afrikan (Republic of New Afrika) p. 31 - Free the Pontiac Brothers! "The People are the Best Judges!" from the FUSE, pub. by New Afrikan Prisoners Organization p. 34 - Revolutionary Struggle in Guyana (Soulbook) p. 38 - Coalition for a Free Guyana p. 42 - Response to the African People's Socialist Party (PFOC Statement) p. 44
Soulbook #4: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #4: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: Afro-American Research InstitutionYear: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 1-4 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: Vietnam, SNCC, Bond; Richard Gibson; Notes on the Avant-Garde: A Brief Perspective on Black Music in the United States; A Reply to Mrs. "instant-hair" Thompson; Psychology and Negritude; Twas the Night Before Christmas; The Two Epochs of Nation Development- Is Black Nationalism a Form of Classical Nationalism?; Reject Notes (Poetry); The Puerto Rican Revolution (Part 2); La Revolucion Puertorrquena (2); The Need to Develop a Revolutionary Consciousness; Towards a Black Liberation Army; The Suicide; It Was Election Time in New York-Again; The Colonized of North America.
Letter in support of Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day Letter in support of Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day
Author: The Moncada LibraryPublisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationDate: 6/26/1981Volume Number: 26-JunFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Moncada Library
Letter calling on supportors to mobilize for the New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day and in particular Assata Shakur.
Park Slope Radicals Keep Talking As Fed Grand Jury Probes Connections to Nyack Shootout Park Slope Radicals Keep Talking As Fed Grand Jury Probes Connections to Nyack Shootout
Author: Bruce VailPublisher: The PhoenixDate: 3/18/1982Volume Number: 18-MarFormat: ArticleCollection: Moncada Library
Free the SLA Free the SLA
Author: SLAFormat: StatementCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This statement written from the "underground" critiques the current revolutionary groups and provides directions for how the Left should continue. Its idea to unite the masses includes building a non-racist movement, incorporating the ideology of feminism into all theory and practice, and creating organizations capable of surviving repression from oppositional forces.