From Soledad to San Quentin. Prisons are War Zones.

Scarce radical pamphlet linking Soledad and San Quentin as war zones

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Revolutionary Prison Solidarity Pamphlet on Carceral Warfare, 1972

First edition. Issued at the height of prison radicalism in the early 1970s, this magazine-sized pamphlet documents events at Soledad and San Quentin, along with the language, strategies, and iconography of California’s prison solidarity movement. Produced by the Prison Solidarity Committee in San Francisco, the pamphlet portrays the violence within Soledad, San Quentin, and other state facilities as extensions of state repression and racialized warfare. Drawings, cartoons, and stark graphic slogans underscore the text’s insistence that prisons were not merely sites of confinement but battlefields in a larger war against marginalized communities, particularly Black and Chicano prisoners. A centerfold broadside by artist Jane Nerling (“Free the San Quentin 6”) urges the public to “bring the real criminals to justice.”

An important work belongs to the wave of radical ephemera that circulated in response to George Jackson’s killing at San Quentin in 1971 and the Attica uprising that same year. Such publications mobilized outside support networks, called attention to systemic brutality, and framed incarcerated people as political prisoners of the United States’ domestic wars.

Price: $350.00