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Railroad! U.S.A. v. Lyndon LaRouche, et al.
by Spannaus, Edward, editor
Washington, DC: Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations, 1989. Paperback. xl, 623p., wraps, paper toned else very good condition.
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€11.42
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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€11.42
Report of an Amnesty International mission to Argentina, 6-15 November 1976
by Amnesty International
London: Amnesty International Publications, 1977. Paperback. 92p., wraps, very good condition, 8.5x11 inches. On the disappeared and political prisoners during Argentina's "dirty war,
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€19.04
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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€14.28
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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€14.28
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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€71.39
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.
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€23.80
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
by Breytenbach, Breyten
Taurus, South Africa, 1984. - second printing. Good condition. biography. Soft Cover. Good/Fair.
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€15.29
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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€13.33
What About State Fascism
London: Persons Unknown, 1978. Single sheet, printed one side only, 8.25x11.75 inches, lightly worn, poorly reproduced (some text is faded but still legible) else very good condition. Leaflet handed out at a march to publicize the case of six anarchists arrested for "conspiracy to charge explosion with persons unknown." The support group for the imprisoned anarchists was named "Persons Unknown" in reference to this charge.
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€23.80
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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€19.04
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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€11.42
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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€14.28
![Support Eric King [handbill]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/961/444/1383444961.0.b.jpg)
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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€14.28
Support Marius Mason
npl: npub, 2014. Pamphlet. Single sheet, printed both sides, 5.5x8.5 inches, lightly edgeworn else very good condition. Mason was arrested in 2008 for a string of Earth Liberation Front actions that occurred in 1999 and 2000. He came out as transgender in 2014.
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€11.42
![Amnesty trumpet: Monthly news letter devoted to the American tradition of amnesty for all political prisoners [Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/560/238/1123238560.0.b.jpg)
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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€42.84
Puisi dari penjara / Poems from prison
by Said Zahari
Kuala Lumpur: Penerbitan Setia Murni, 1973. Pamphlet. 55p., staplebound booklet, cover toned along spine, ownership signature on first page, otherwise very good. Collection of poems prepared for publication by Usman Awang. The author was the editor-in-chief of the Malay-language newspaper Utusan Melayu, a free speech and labor activist. After his arrest in Operation Coldstone, he was charged with having Communist sympathies and spent 17 years in prison.
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€33.32
![Class War (formerly "Hammer & Sickle) [issues 1 and 2]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/875/135/1577135875.0.b.jpg)
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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€42.84
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...
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€19.04
Minutes of General Council Meeting (September 7, 1973)
New York: United Defense to Free Political Prisoners, 1973. Ephemera. 3p., 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheets stapled at corner, penciled note of issuing organization at the top. The meeting, chaired by Alfredo Lopez, included discussion of activities on behalf of Carlos Feliciano, Gail Madden, George Merritt, and others.
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€23.80
![Volia: Zhurnal uznikov totalitarnykh sistem / Воля: Журнал узников тоталитарных систем [four issues, with additional booklets]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/079/081/1471081079.0.b.jpg)
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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€71.39
![Stop the war now! Free all political prisoners! [broadside]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/977/505/1546505977.0.b.jpg){kind=small}
Stop the war now! Free all political prisoners! [broadside]
n.p., n.d.. Broadside. 17x5.5 inch sheet printed one side, designed to be put up in a window or pasted to a wall. Faint vertical fold crease, otherwise very good condition. Circa 1970.
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€42.84
In the struggle for equality, the story of the Anarchist Red Cross
by Yelensky, Boris
Chicago: Published by A. Berkman Aid Fund, 1958. 96p., very good hardcover in like dustjacket. Comradely inscription by the author to anarchist activist Dora Keyser on front free endpaper. Discusses the history of the Anarchist Red Cross and its work to support political prisoners. George Woodcock provided editorial assistance on the first draft of this work.
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€90.43
![[Lot of four Leonard Peltier handbills]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/992/725/1590725992.0.b.jpg)
[Lot of four Leonard Peltier handbills]
[Washington]: [Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network], 1998. Handbill. Three 8.5x11 inch handbills and one 11x17 inch poster, all crude b&w photocopies with illustrations and photos; poster bears a middle folding crease and one handbill has some handling, otherwise all items are in very good condition. Content includes solidarity rallies and documentary film screenings from groups based out of Washington.
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€71.39
Inside Soviet Prisons: Documents of the struggle for human and national rights in the U.S.S.R.
by Committee for the Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners
New York: Committee for the Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners, 1976. Pamphlet. 72p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps faded along stapled edge else very good condition.
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€14.28
