Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
The PFOC, formed in 1974, was the publishing arm of the [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO), the terrorist spin-off from Students For a Democratic Society (SDS). Its first pamphlet was Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism, written by Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones. According to Prof. Harvey Klehr:
- It announced that "we are communist men and women" and urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and logistics for WUO members living underground.[1] The PFOC also published Breakthrough, a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article praising third-world single party Marxist-Leninist dictatorships.
Founding/Supervisory Organizations:
- Cuban General Directorate of Intelligence (DGI)
- Weather Underground Organization (WUO)
Supporting Organizations:
- Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
- Workers World Party (WWP)
- Youth International Party (YIP)
Type of Organization: Terrorist/revolutionary
Location: United States
Ideological cover: Openly Marxist-Leninist
Activities: Urban guerrilla warfare; bombings; assassinations; riots; prison organizing
Target countries: United States
Status: Organized, possibly active
Assisted Organizations:
- American Indian Movement (AIM)
- Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN)
- Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
- Republic of New Africa (RNA)
- Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
- Workers World Party (WWP)
Derivative/Controlled Organizations:
- May 19th Communist Organization (M-19 CO)
References
- â Klehr, 1988, 109.