An article from People Against Oppression and War on the United Freedom Front, a revolutionary, anti-imperialist underground group active in the late ’70’s to the early ’80’s. [1]

In the early 1980s, a group known as the United Freedom Front was active in the north-eastern United States. [2]

The group was founded in 1975 as the Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson Unit and changed its name to the United Freedom Front the same year. [3]

Raymond Luc Levasseur, whose United Freedom Front was responsible for more bombings in New York than any other terrorist organization, has been disinvited from speaking at the University of Massachusetts next week. [4]

Lamonaco’s husband, Phil, a New Jersey state trooper, was shot dead by members of the United Freedom Front in 1981. [5]

In 1985-86 Raymond Luc Levasseur, Richard Williams, Thomas Manning, and Jaan Laaman were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the bombings of unoccupied military and corporate buildings. [1]

The group was formed in the early 1970s by Thomas Manning and Raymond Levasseur, two Vietnam veterans who were both in a Massachusetts prison at Walpole. [2]

The initial members were Raymond Luc Levasseur (the UFF’s leader), Tom Manning, and their respective spouses, Patricia Gros and Carole Manning. [3]

December 1981 – murder of New Jersey state trooper. [2]

Deval Patrick pulled the plug on a planned UMass speech by a convicted terrorist yesterday after a plea delivered by the Herald from the outraged widow of a gunned-down state trooper – angering cops who protested the event for weeks. [5]

Charges brought against the members of the United Freedom Front included two counts of racketeering and one count of conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government by force. [1]

Thomas Manning and Richard Williams were given life sentences for the 1981 murder of state trooper Philip Lamonaco, and Laaman was convicted in the 1982 attempted murder of two state troopers. [3]

New Jersey and Massachusetts State Troopers were outraged when they found out last week that Levasseur would speak on a public university campus. [4]

Levasseur – now living under federal parole in a halfway house in Maine and still hailed by followers as a political prisoner – was set to speak at a “Colloquium on Social Change” at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst next Thursday. [5]

They were among eight people who were charged with conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government by operating a “terrorist ring” responsible for a decade of bombings and bank robberies throughout the Northeast. [1]

Sources:
[1] Phoenix Anarchist Coalition
[2] Case-Study: The United Freedom Front
[3] United Freedom Front – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] NYC’s Most Prolific Bomber Disinvited From UMass | NBC New York
[5] Outrage over terror speaker – BostonHerald.com