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Against the Hungarian People

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Siberia and The Exile System

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Josyp Terelya Witness To Apparitions and Persecution In the Ussr

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Anarchism On Trial

by Emma and Alexander Berkman Goldman

You Can't Convert a Man Because You Have Silenced Him" / Freedom To All Political Prisoners

by George, Artist Pennewell

My Road To Berlin

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Passing It On--A Memoir

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Act Now or Forever Rest In Peace!

Behind Bars

by Chicago Area Draft Resisters

Political Prisoners Books & Ephemera

The Nuclear Resister: Information About and Support for Imprisoned Anti-Nuclear Activists; #77, April 24, 1991

by Cohen-Joppa, Felice and Jack, editors

Tucson, AZ: National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective, 1991. 7p., folded tabloid format, evenly toned, lightly worn else good condition. Subtitle from front wrap, subtitle on inside is "A Chronicle of Hope

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£16.19

The Nuclear Resister: Information About and Support for Imprisoned Anti-Nuclear Activists; #89, June 23, 1993

by Cohen-Joppa, Felice and Jack, editors

Tucson, AZ: National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective, 1993. 7p., folded tabloid format, evenly toned, lightly worn else good condition. Subtitle from front wrap, subtitle on inside is "A Chronicle of Hope

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£16.19

Infinite Onion #14 (January 1997)

Colorado Springs, CO: Infinite Onion, 1997. Pamphlet. [12p.], tabloid style newsprint; illus., photos., pages toning, slight handling, else in very good condition.

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£11.33

Class War (formerly "Hammer & Sickle) [issues 1 and 2]

New York: Scarlet Letter, 1979. Magazine. Two issues of the 8.5x11 inch staplebound journal, 69 and 25 pages respectively; some uneven toning, otherwise very good. The second issue is devoted to the program of Class War, which describes itself on p. 1 as "a tiny organization of Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist current.

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£36.43

Spanish Political & Religious Prisoners: Is it Nothing to You All Ye That Pass By

by Tucker, Alfred G

London: Friends Peace Committee, nd. Pamphlet. 8p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps slightly worn, some small stains on front wrap else very good condition. Written in the form of a dialogue between an Englishman and a Spaniard. Not dated, but post-Civil War.

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£9.71

Volia: Zhurnal uznikov totalitarnykh sistem / Воля: Журнал узников тоталитарных систем [four issues, with additional booklets]

Moscow: Vozvrashchenie, 2002. Magazine. Four issues of the paperback journal, numbers present are 1, 4/5, 6/7, and 8/9; very good. Also included are two booklets published by the journal: Tikhai︠a︡ obitelʹ (Sukhanovka) / Тихая обитель (Сухановка) by Lidia Golovkova (with a small pen note on the cover), and Zapiski lagernogo vracha / Записки лагерного врача by Vadim Aleksandrovskii. Journal focused on gulags and other aspects of the totalitarian experience.

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£60.71

Free Hugo Blanco [pinback button]

by [Blanco, Hugo]

n.p., [196-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, stylized portrait of the imprisoned Peruvian Trotskyist over a map of South America.

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£12.14

Memorias del Calabozo: Tomo II

by Rosencof, Mauricio [and] Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro

Montevideo: Tae Editorial, 1991. Paperback. 115p., wraps, 5 x 7.25 inches, wraps worn and soiled else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Volume 2 only. Record of a dialogue between the authors regarding their time as prisoners of the Uruguayan dictatorship.

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£20.24

1941 Season's Greetings

New York: Council for Pan American Democracy, 1940. Pamphlet. Four-panel card, map of South America on cover with Brazil highlighted; donation solicitation form tipped in. Receipt date of Dec. 1940 penciled at the bottom of the rear panel. Appears from outside to be a holiday card, but it opens to continue, "But in Brazil, under the Southern Cross, a great leader of the Brazilian people is being crucified. Luiz Carlos Prestes, honorary chairman of the National Liberation Alliance, will spend 1941 in the... Read more about this item

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£16.19

[Letter by the Provisional Defense Committee]

by [Muste, A.J. and Dorothy Day]

New York: Provisional Defense Committee, 1955. Staplebound. 8.5x11 inches; some minor toning, trifold letter with very slight edgewear, else in very good condition. Letter, printed on one side only, of the Provisional Defense Committee with the printed signatures of A.J. Muste and Dorothy Day. Letter sent to supporters by the defense committee for 29 pacifists who refused to take cover during "Operation Alert," which was a civil defense test in several cities. Bayard Rustin was secretary of the group... Read more about this item

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£28.33

The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy

by Saleh, Yassin al-Haj; Foreword by Robin Yassin-Kassab

Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. Paperback. xvii, 312p., paperback, 5.25x8 inches, very good.

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£9.71

Thousands of workers are now on strike in the U.S.

by Industrial Workers of the World

Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1923. Handbill. Leaflet, 5.75x9 inches, printed on both sides, paper browned, minor pen notation on front, else very good. "Urges a general strike for the release of political prisoners and lists respectable groups and individuals who are working for amnesty for them." *Miles 4570.

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£60.71

The second university; detention under the ISA

by Ahmad, Kassim

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Media Intelek Sdn. Bhd, 1984. Paperback. viii, 146p., 4.65x7.5 inches; first edition in English, wraps a bit rubbed, else in very good condition.

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£28.33

The Fight To Free Mumia Abu Jamal: Mumia is Innocent; Partisan Defense Committee Pamphlet, July 2006

by Partisan Defense Committee

New York: the Committee, 2006. 47p., 8.5x11 inches, stapled wraps, very good condition. The PDC is a Spartacist League-affliated organization focused on political prisoners.

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£12.14

Amnesty trumpet: Monthly news letter devoted to the American tradition of amnesty for all political prisoners [Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6]

by Barsky, Edward, chairman

New York: National Committee to Win Amnesty for the Smith Act Victims, 1954. Four issues of the newsletter, 4p. each, 8.5x11 inches, minor wear. Also included is a worn duplicate of no. 3. Newsletter supporting Communists imprisoned under the Smith Act.

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£36.43

Support Eric King [handbill]

npl: npub, 2014. Single sheet, printed one side only, 4.25x11 inches, two small smudges at bottom else very good condition. Handbill in support of King, an anarchist who was charged with an attempted firebombing of a government official's office in Kansas City, MO in 2014. King is still in prison as of this writing (1/2021).

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£12.14

US: IncarcerNation. Walkin' Steel

Chicago: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, 1995. 12p., pamphlet in tabloid newspaper format, lightly toned else very good condition. Includes sections on Black imprisonment, developments at Pelican Bay and Marion, and more.

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£14.57

Black behind bars: Rhodesia, 1959-1974

by Mutasa, Didymus

Harare: Longman, 1987. vii, 150 pages, paperback, very good, fourth printing. By the former political prisoner who became Zimbabwe's Speaker of the House of Assembly.

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£9.71

Marion Prison: inside the Lockdown

Chicago: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, 1986. [14p.] stapled booklet, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. Transcript of a two-part NPR program on Marion prison, with a two-page introduction by the Committee. All inmates at the prison, which included some prominent political figures, were kept in their cells 23 hours a day.

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£14.57

Teatr Gulaga: vospominanija, ocherki / Театр ГУЛАГ: Воспоминания, очерки

by Korallov M.M.; et al. Кораллов, М. М

Moscow: Memorial, 1995. Paperback. 167p. paperback, very good. Several black and white photos. Essays by various authors about their experiences of Gulag theater.

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£24.28

Marion Prison: inside the Lockdown

Chicago: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, 1986. [14p.] booklet, 8.5x11 inches, staples neatly removed. Transcript of a two-part NPR program on Marion prison, with a two-page introduction by the Committee. All inmates at the prison, which included some prominent political figures, were kept in their cells 23 hours a day.

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£12.14

Class-Struggle Defense Notes: Number 40, Fall 2017

by Partisan Defense Committee

New York: the Committee, 2017. Newsletter. 23p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. The PDC is a Spartacist League-affliated organization focused on political prisoners. Articles on Mumia Abu-Jamla, Albert Woodfox, and more.

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£9.71

Help Support Eric McDavid

n.p.: npub, 2008. Single sheet, printed one side only, 8.5x11 inches, fold-creased else very good condition. Eric McDavid is an anarchist and environmental activist who was charged with "conspiracy to damage and destroy property by fire and an explosive" in connection with a plot to bomb dams in 2006. He was released in 2015.

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£12.14

The Political Prisoners in Cuba: 1981 Report

Union City, NJ / Washington DC: Association of Former Political Prisoners of Cuba / Of Human Rights, 1982. Pamphlet. 28p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, staples rusted, a few small rust stains on rear wrap else very good condition. Includes a list of prisoners.