Fighting the State's Attacks: A Statement from Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
San Francisco: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, [1977]. First edition. A statement following the arrest of five Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) members who were charged with conspiracy to bomb the office of conservative California senator, John Briggs. The PFOC accuses the state of trying to “smash revolutionary leadership” by “crush[ing] any moves among white people towards militant solidarity with national liberation.” The statement goes on to describe the PFOC’s role within the broader anti-imperialist movement and their support for gay and women’s liberation. They condemn collaborators (such as the Guardian, who “defer armed struggle indefinitely”) and infiltrators and commit themselves to defeating the “opportunist, collaborationist lines on armed struggle within the left.”
The PFOC was co-founded by Clayton Van Lydegraf, one of the arrestees, in 1974 as an aboveground support group for the Weather Underground (WU). They printed and distributed WU communiques and publications, published a journal, “Breakthrough”, and provided succor to those underground. They dissolved in 1995.
Four corner-stapled 8 ½” x 14” sheets mimeographed on rectos only. Crease from folding in half, else about Fine. We find one copy in OCLC at Harvard. Scarce. Item #07423
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