Chicago ABC 2025 Zine Library

In an era of prison mail censorship, the criminalization of zines, and the repression of dissent as ‘terrorism’, we’re doubling down on our inside-outside distro operation. While we prioritize making these zines available to people behind bars and helping people inside self-publish their works, we’re posting this updated 2025 archive to support new zine distros and prisoner support crews and to prevent the suppression and disappearance of important revolutionary voices in this moment.

We have also updated the catalog to include The Anarchist Library through January 2025 and added a dozen zines from the South Chicago ABC collection. Also available are titles from the Anarchist Black Cross Federation, the True Leap Press catalog, and legacy publications such as 4strugglemag and Spirit of Freedom. A mirror of the archive is available as a Tor Hidden Service also accessible through Tor2Web. If there are any titles that should be added or removed from this catalog, please let us know. If you know or are an incarcerated artist or author and would like us to help distribute your works, please hit us up.

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Prisons / Policing

7 Mitos Sobre La Policia
Crimethinc, 6 pages.

A Conversation Between Anarchists (interviews with imprisoned Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire)
Conspiración Ácrata, 2012, 28 pages.

A Hand Becomes a Fist: Legal Solidarity Manual
Midnight Special Law Collective, 2006, 16 pages.

A World Without Police
2016, 14 pages.

Anarchist Black Cross: An Introduction
2 pages.

Anarchy Live! Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble
Michael Kimble, 12 pages.

Anarquismo y Carceles
Rodolfo Montes de Oca, 2019, 24 pages.

Antifa In Prison
Eric King, 20 pages.

Attacking Prisons at the Point of Production
8 pages.

Banking on Bondage
28 pages.

Beneath the Prairie the Concrete
Haters Cafe, 12/2025, 6 pages.

Beyond Courts Study Guide
Stevie Wilson, 2024, 6 pages.

Bullet or the Bullet: Killer Cops Make Cop Killers
Anonymous, 8 pages.

California’s Dirty Little Secret
Kenneth Gay, 4 pages.

Circumventing Prison Tech Censorship
Midwest Books to Prisoners, 38 pages.

Closing USP Thomson SMU: Investigative Reports
Marshall Project and, 14 pages.

Collective Action Behind Bars: A History of Jail Soldarityi
Kris Hermes (Upping The Anti Magazine), 2016, 10 pages.

Containing the Crisis: A History of Mass Incarceration and Rebellion in the Rustbelt
18 pages.

Cracks at Hotel California: Exposing the Realities of Cook County Jail (Issue 9 and older)
Dare To Struggle, 2025, 24 pages.

Delusions of Progress
12 pages.

Down: Reflections on Prisoner Resistance in Indiana
2012, 50 pages.

End Book Bans And Mail Censorship At Cook County Jail
Midwest Books To Prisoners, 2023, 16 pages.

Ending Torture by Solitary Confinement In Illinois
Chris Bridges, David Shapiro, Kate Schwartz, 8 pages.

Entrevista con el Preso Anarquista de Mexico y Miembro de Okupa Che Jorge "Yorch" Esquivel
11/2023, 6 pages.

Escape From New York
Jarrod Shanahan, 2022, 10 pages.

Every Crook Can Govern: Prison Rebellions as a Window to a New World)
George Ciccariello-Maher & Jeff St. Andrews, 2011, 10 pages.

Exposing “Little Guantanamo”: Inside the CMU
Daniel McGowan, 2009, 25 pages.

Fire Ant: Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity (newsletter: #19 and older)
Fire Ant, 2025, 8 pages.

Fire To The Prisons – Uprising Support (interview)
Heatwave Magazine, 2025, 4 pages.

Food and Power at Cook County Jail
12 pages.

Fox Designing the Henhouse: Indiana Jail Expansion Vigo and Terre Haute
Jessica Zhang and Bea Halbach-Singh (Vera), 2021, 6 pages.

Free Casey (support zine)
2025, 6 pages.

Free Casey Zine (statements of solidarity from inside)
2024, 6 pages.

Free Oso Blanco
3/2025, 6 pages.

Free Peppy and Krystal
03/01/2025, 6 pages.

Free Tarek Bazrouk
2025, 4 pages.

Free the Mississippi 5! – Anita Krecic
Campaign to Free the Mississippi 5, 06/25/2025, 14 pages.

Free the Mississippi 5! – Evelyn Smith
Campaign to Free the Mississippi 5, 06/25/2025, 12 pages.

Free the Mississippi 5! – Linda Ross
Campaign to Free the Mississippi 5, 06/25/2025, 12 pages.

Free the Mississippi 5! – Lisa Crevitt
Campaign to Free the Mississippi 5, 06/25/2025, 14 pages.

Free the Mississippi 5! – Loretta Pierre
Campaign to Free the Mississippi 5, 06/25/2025, 16 pages.

Free the Pendleton 2! Comic
Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2, 8 pages.

Freedom for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War
PROLibertad, 10 pages.

Grey Owls: Hope For Change 1-7 (PADOC newsletter for elders)
Grey Owls Committee, 2025, 18 pages.

Handbook on Surviving Solitary Confinement: A Survival Guide for the Targeted Prisoner
Khalfani Malik Khaldun, 14 pages.

How the Newest Federal Prison Became One of the Deadliest
Christie Thompson, 2022, 14 pages.

How to Start a Prison Books Collective
Prison Books Collective, 14 pages.

If It Was Easy, They Wouldn’t Call It Struggle
Mark Barnsley, 14 pages.

In Contempt #2 Dec 25 (abridged)
12/2025, 10 pages.

In Contempt #2 Dec 25 (full print)
12/2025, 16 pages.

In Defense of Fire and Smoke
Sean Swain, 4 pages.

In The Belly (2024)
In The Belly, 2024, 24 pages.

Incarcerated Lives Matter: The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
Hybachi LeMar and others, 2023, 26 pages.

International Political Prisoner List 2025
Solidarity International, 20 pages.

Interview with Mexican Anarchist Prisoner and Okupa Che Member Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel
11/2023, 6 pages.

Is Being a White Muslim in Ohio a Crime?
Abdullah Abdul Ahmed, 2 pages.

Keep The Fires Burning (Newsletter By And For Cali Prisoners:#17 Spring 2025 and older)
Oakland Abolition and Solidarity, 2025, 6 pages.

Letters from Exile
Ray Luc Levasseur, 1993, 40 pages.

Live From The Trenches...Letters From The Vaughn 17
26 pages.

Locked Up
32 pages.

Locked Up During Covid
Midwest Books To Prisoners, 20 pages.

Midwest Books March 2010 Update
Midwest Books to Prisoners, 3/2010, 12 pages.

Midwest Books To Prisoners Community Zine 2022
Midwest Books To Prisoners, 2022, 24 pages.

Midwest Books To Prisoners Community Zine 2023
Midwest Books To Prisoners, 22 pages.

Midwest Books To Prisoners Community Zine Vol 1
Midwest Books To Prisoners, 2020, 18 pages.

Midwest Journal of Truth and Injustice Throughout America – 1
Toola Taylor, 2024, 14 pages.

Midwest Journal of Truth and Injustice Throughout America – 2
Toola Taylor, 2024, 16 pages.

Midwest Prison Censorship Update 2025: Exposing the IDOC Mail Scanning Scam
Midwest Books To Prisoners, 2025, 24 pages.

New Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network
ABC Network, 10 pages.

No End in Sight (Life Imprisonment)
The Sentencing Project, 2021, 24 pages.

No Regrets: Accounts and Reflections from the 2016 National Prison Strike
Blackbird Publishing, 10/01/2022, 12 pages.

Northwestern Insider (V2I2 Nov 2025 and older)
Northwestern Prison Education Program, 2024, 60 pages.

On Alligator Alcatraz And The Fight Against Toxic Prisons
Panagioti Tsolkas, 2025, 8 pages.

On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine Movement
2025, 4 pages.

Other Side of the COIN: Counter-insurgency and Community Policing
Kristian Williams, 2011, 20 pages.

Our Commitment Is to Our Communities Mass Incarceration, Political Prisoners, and Building a Movement for Community-Based Justice
David Gilbert, 2014, 36 pages.

Practical Abolition From the Inside Out
Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project, 2023, 8 pages.

Prison Action News 11.1 and older
02/01/2018, 20 pages.

Prison, Where is Thy Victory?
Huey P Newton, 1970, 2 pages.

Race Treason Behind Prison Walls
One Thousand Emotions, 2006, 18 pages.

Relentless: An Interview with Coyote Acabo
Coyote Acabo, 2014, 14 pages.

Repression Breeds Resistance: Greg Curry on the Lucasville Uprising
Greg Curry, 16 pages.

Safety Justice Accountability Abolition
Stevie Wilson, 2024, 15 pages.

Staying Free By Shutting the Fuck Up
8 pages.

Staying Free By Shutting the Fuck Up
8 pages.

STG, Good Time, and the Malicious Demons of Coercion
Jonathan Summers, 2023, 4 pages.

Survival Tips and Ideas for the Ex-Prisoner: A Guide to a Successful Transition
Khalfani Malik Khaldun, 4 pages.

Surviving a Grand Jury: Three Narratives from Resisters
Crimethinc, 2025, 14 pages.

Text of Anarchist Comrade Giannis Michailidis on the Struggle for his Release
Giannis Michailieis, 2023, 10 pages.

The Abolitionist (Issue 43 and older)
Critical Resistance, 2025, 12 pages.

The Colonizer’s Corpse
Sean Swain, 6 pages.

The Fortress Economy
16 pages.

The Good Mother – Mothering, Feminism, Incarceration
Deseriee Kennedy, 20 pages.

The Incarcerated Worker 6 and older
2017, 10 pages.

The New Stop and Frisk? (Chicago Guns and Traffic Stops)
Pascal Sabino - Injustice Watch, 03/01/2023, 10 pages.

The Opening Statement (Fall 2025 Issue 26 and older)
Michigan Abolition Prisoner Support, 2025, 6 pages.

The Perils of Prison Mail Digitization
The Final Straw Radio Show, 10 pages.

The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal
10 pages.

The Succession Battle For a Prison Empire (Smart Communications)
Katya Schwenk, 8 pages.

The Sword #1: Commencement Issue
Toola Taylor, 2025, 14 pages.

The Sword #2 Strength is in the Struggle
Toola Taylor, 2025, 16 pages.

TIME/CUT (Indiana prison newsletter Summer 2025 #17 and older)
Time/Cut, 2025, 14 pages.

Under Lock and Key (Issue 89 and older)
Maoist International Ministry of Prisons, 2025, 8 pages.

Updates and Thoughts from Behind the Walls
Caleb Freestone, 2025, 4 pages.

What Is Security Culture?
6 pages.

What Makes Criminal Suspects Give a False Confession?
4 pages.

What The Flock Is That? Mass Surveillance and You
Deserters Distro, 2025, 8 pages.

When Getting Out of Jail Means a Deadly Walk Home
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, 5/2025, 6 pages.

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
Courtney Desiree Morris, 10 pages.

You Are Not The Wolf
Malik Muhammad, 2025, 4 pages.

Zines Are Not A Crime
Aug2025, 2 pages.