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NOTES FROM AN AFRIKAN P.O.W. JOURNAL -NEW AFRIKAN PRISONERS ORGANIZATION The New Afrikan Prisoners Organization (NAPO ), formerly Stateville Prisoners Organization, are revo lutionary Black prisoners in Stateville Prison, Illinois. Discussion Papers on the prison movement and national liberation, written and distributed by NAPO in the last year and a half, have made a significant contribution to anti-imperialist struggle, particularly within the prison movement. NAPO led a successful country-wide campaign which won t he acquittal of the Stateville 4, Black prisoners who had been framed up on charges stemming from an incident at Stateville Prison which 路resulted in the stabbing of two white guards, one of whom died. .S truggles inside the prisons reflect and are an integral part of national liberation struggles in the US. Support of prison struggles against the State and against white and .male supremacy, and support for the revolutionary prisoners movement by op-
pre ssor nation revolutionaries and progress ive people is international solidarity. For these reasons, PFOC is committed to aid in building an anti-imperialist prison solidarity movement. As part of this commitment, we will continue to reprint the writings of oppressed nation revolutionaries behind the walls. We plan to develop further our own views on anti-imperialist prison so lidarity in future issues of
Breakthrough . The fo llowing excerpts are from Discussion Papers No. 1 and No. 2, printed in Notes From An Afrikan POW Journal. Book one. NAPO documents of 1976 and 1977, and from NAPQ's pamphlet, ''Why We Support the Stateville Four." The complete Journal. the pamph let, and NAPO 's 1978 Liberation Calendar and greeting cards are available from: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization, PO Box 6020, Chicago, IL 60607.
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SPO ''PRISON MOVEMENT" DISCUSSION PAPER .N 0.1 Contributions Toward the Nationat Prisoners Movement ( excerpt) It 's widely accepted that with the activities surrounding the anticipated trial of ComradeBrothers George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, there arose what came to be known as the "prison movement." The activities involved in the defense of the Soledad Brothers began in 1970; tlius, we use these activities . . . we use this period beca use we thin k it sufficiently marks a point in t he history of rebellious actions in american prisons when these actions began to take a qualitative change in character. What we mean to say is, the ''prison movement" which we say began in the period marked 19i0 was a nd is different in nature from past struggles in america's prisons; the "prison movement" is qualitative(v different from all past struggles in american prisons. This qual itative difference stems from several factors, but each of these factors are rel ated to the escalat ion of the st ruggles waged