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The PDC is a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization which champions cases and causes in the interest of the whole of the working people. This purpose is in accordance with the political views of the Spartacist League.

The PDC sends monthly stipends of $50 to class-war prisoners.

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Class-Struggle Defense Notes

Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 35

No. 41
Free the Class-War Prisoners!

Includes:

• “Progressive” D.A. Dr ops Appeal, Continues Vendetta: Free Mumia Now!

• Freedom Now for Kevin Cooper!

• MOVE Prisoners Paroled

• Albert Woodfox Chronicles Prison Hell

• The Frame-Up of the Omaha Two: Free Ed Poindexter!

• Nina Droz Sentenced: Free Her Now!

• Correction on Panthers and COINTELPRO

• Honoring a Class-War Prisoner, Tom Manning, 1946–2019

• Support the Class-War Prisoners

• Jailed for Refusing to Fink on Julian Assange:Free Chelsea Manning!

• Free Julian Assange!

• One Year After Charlottesville: Only Labor/Black Power Can Stop the Fascists

• Rakem Balogun Freed

• Drop Charges Against Leftist Anti-Trump Protesters! LAPD Spying Operation Exposed

• PDC Account Receipts

• PDC Financial Statements for Years Ending 31 December 2016 through 31 December 2018

 

Fall 2019
32 pages $.50


Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 35

No. 40
For Labor/Black Action to Stop the Fascists!

Includes:

• Bay Area Anti-Fascist Protests

• Drop All Charges Against Anti-Fascist Protesters!

• Facing 80 Years for Protesting Trump’s Inauguration

• Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Mumia Finally Treated for Hepatitis C

• Stop Prison Torture of Tom Manning and Jaan Laaman!

• Former Class-War Prisoners Address NYC Holiday Appeal Benefit

• Albert Woodfox: Unbowed, Unbroken

• Lynne Stewart, 1939–2017

• Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa, 1947–2016

• PDC Account Receipts

• PDC Financial Statements for Years Ending 31 December 2014 and 31 December 2015

 

Fall 2017
24 pages $.50


Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 35

No. 39
Mumia’s Life in Danger – Free Him Now!
Hugo Pinell Assassinated

Includes:

• Court Blocks Medical Treatment—Free Him Now!

• Mumia's Life in Danger—Free Him Now!

• Hugo Pinell Assassinated

• Phil Africa, 1956-2015

• Albert Woodfox Must Be Freed!

• Hands Off Assata Shakur!

• 29th Annual Holiday Appeal

• Greetings from the Class-War Prisoners

• Defend Maile Hampton! Cops Charge Black Activist with “Lynching”

• Let the Fire Burn: A Powerful Documentary on the 1985 Bombing of MOVE

• Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!

• Victory for South African Platinum Miners

• Reinstate Boston School Bus Union Leaders Now!

• PDC Account Receipts

• PDC Financial Statements for Year Ending 31 December 2013

 

Fall 2015
32 pages $.50


Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 35

No. 38
Free the Class-War Prisoners!

Includes:

• Convicted for Revealing Crimes of U.S. Imperialism: Free Chelsea Manning!

• 28th Annual PDC Holiday Appeal: Free the Class-War Prisoners!

• From Death Row to "Slow Death Row"

• Medical Release Denied: Free Lynne Stewart!

• "A Death Sentence for Defending Her Client? Lynne Stewart" By Mumia Abu-Jamal

• Free Tinley Park Anti-Fascists!

• Remember the MOVE Massacre—May 1985 Bombing: Racist State Terror

• For International Solidarity with South African Miners!

• Asylum Now for Edward Snowden!

• PDC Account Receipts

 

Winter 2013-2014
24 pages $.50


Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 35

No. 37
Drive to Execute Mumia Halted
Mumia Abu-Jamal Is Innocent—Free Him Now!

Includes:

• Mumia Abu-Jamal Is Innocent—Free Him Now! Drive to Execute Mumia Halted

• PDC Statement

• Lynne Stewart Appeal Rejected

• Solidarity with Longview ILWU and Its Supporters

• New York City Holiday Appeal: Remembering the Life and Struggle of Geronimo ji Jaga (Pratt)

• Troy Davis Execution: Racist State Murder

• PDC Account Receipts

 

Summer 2012
24 pages $.50


Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 36

No. 36
Supreme Court Rules Against Mumia Abu-Jamal
Lynne Stewart Sentenced to Ten Years
Obama's War on Left, Civil Liberties

Includes:

• Obama's War on Left, Civil Liberties

• Supreme Court of Death Rules Against Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Is Innocent—Free Him Now! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!

• PDC/ICL Protest Court of Appeals Decision

• Mumia Is an Innocent Man! Free Him Now!

Reformists Crawl to Obama and His Top Cop

• Get the Facts!

• Radical Lawyer Lynne Stewart Resentenced to 10 Years

Vicious Retribution for Defending Her Client
Free Lynne Stewart, Mohamed Yousry, Ahmed Abdel Sattar!

• From Death Row, This Is Mumia Abu-Jamal: Punishing Lynne

• 24th Annual PDC Holiday Appeal Benefits
Supporting the Class-War Prisoners

• Letter on Prison Hell

• Remember the MOVE Massacre

25 Years Ago: Racist Government Bombed Black Philadelphia

• In Honor of Veronica Jones

Helped Expose Frame-Up of Mumia Abu-Jamal

• Free Walter and Gwendolyn Myers! Free the Cuban Five!

• Vanunu Slams Nobel War Prize

• PDC Account Receipts

 

Fall 2010
32 pages $.50


Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 35

No. 35
Mobilize Now! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

Includes:

• 22nd Annual Holiday Appeal for Class-War Prisoners

• Class-Struggle Defense and the Fight to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

• LBL Speaker: Mobilize Labor Power in Fight to Free Mumia!

• Join the Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Now!

• PDC Account Receipts

 

Spring 2008
16 pages $.50


Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 34

No. 34
Court Puts Mumia’s Case on “Fast Track”
Mobilize Labor’s Power to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!


Includes:

• Court Battle Looms

Mumia Abu-Jamal Is an Innocent Man—Free Him Now!

• Join the Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Now!

• From Death Row, This Is Mumia Abu-Jamal:

Ongoing War Against Workers: The TWU Strike

• International Solidarity with NYC Transit Unions!

• Defend Lynne Stewart, Mohamed Yousry, Ahmed Abdel Sattar!

• Court Suppresses Evidence of Frame-Up

Locked Up for Thirty Years—Free Leonard Peltier!

• Richards Williams (1947-2005)

• Free Jaan Laaman and Tom Manning!

• Racial Oppression and the Supreme Court Hearings

• PDC Account Receipts

 

Spring 2006
24 pages $.50


No. 33

There Is No Justice in the Capitalist Courts


Includes:

• Mumia Denied Day in Court, Again

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!

• Column by Mumia Abu-Jamal:

In the Shadows of Abu Ghraib Prison

• Down With Racist Frame-Up of RNC Protester Jamal Holiday!

• Government Conspiracy Against All Our Rights

Lynne Stewart, Mohamed Yousry, Ahmed Abdel Sattar Convicted

Outrage!

• 19th Annual Partisan Defense Committee Holiday Appeal

Thousands Raised for Class-War Prisoners

• Spartacist Greetings to the 2004 Holiday Appeal

• Lynne Stewart Speaks at NYC Benefit

• Leonard Peltier Becomes PDC Stipend Recipient

Free Leonard Peltier!

• PDC Account Receipts

 

Spring 2005
24 pages $.50

Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 33

Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 32

No. 32

Includes: "New Papers Filed in U.S. Supreme Court—Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!"

Spring 2004
16 pages $.50


No. 31

Reprints in its entirety the amici curiae (friends of the court) brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals by the PDC and the Spartacist League in defense of Jose Padilla.

Summer 2003
24 pages $.50

Read Workers Vanguard article reporting on the submission of the brief

Class-Struggle Defense Notes No. 31


Pamphlets

PDC Fact Sheet
Murdered by Mumia: Big Lies in the Service of Legal Lynching
Mumia is Innocent! Free Him Now!

2008

16 pages $.50

The Frame-Up of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal Is an Innocent Man!

The Fight to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Is Innocent!
Anatomy of a Frame-Up

2006

48 pages $1.00

The Frame-Up of Mumia Abu-Jamal—
1982 Trial a Mockery of Justice

1995

16 pages $.50

The Frame-Up of Mumia Abu-Jamal