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Mauro de Agostini, et al
Prisoners and Partisans: Italian Anarchists in the struggle against Fascism
Kate Sharpley Library, 1999. 37p, 21cm. 1-873605-47-1 pamphlet £3/ $3
Prisoners and Partisans: Italian Anarchists in the struggle against Fascism
A selection of essays covering early anti-fascist combat groups, attempts on the life of Il Duce, partisan operations in the war and post-war assaults on the fascists.
Not a lengthy, dry or dusty tome; it is a fresh, well-researched collection of articles on resistance and gives a graphic description of the Italian anarchists' struggle against Mussolini…(Direct Action #12)
Octavio Alberola, Alvaro Millán & Juan Zambrana
Revolutionary activism: The Spanish Resistance in context
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000. 17p, 21cm. 1-873605-77-3 pamphlet £3 (£1.50 to individual bulletin subscribers) / $3
Texts and interviews in which the libertarian activist described as 'Franco's public enemy number one' recounts some of the context of the new wave of opposition to the Franco regime in the 1960s, and its international significance; including the state murder of Grandos and Delgado.
Anselme Bellegarrigue
(The world's first) Anarchist Manifesto
Kate Sharpley Library, 2002. 42 p, 1-873605-82-X. pamphlet £3 (or £2 to individuals) / $3
The first Anarchist manifesto, written in 1850, declares "Anarchy is order, whereas government is civil war" and argues — with language as sharp even now as any against the delusion that voting does any good for anyone but politicians and puts the case that the established power structure is a gigantic crime against humanity.
Every individual who, in the current state of affairs, drops a paper into the ballot box to choose a legislative authority or a executive authority is — perhaps not wittingly but at least out of ignorance, maybe not directly, but at least indirectly — a bad citizen. I repeat what I have been saying and take back not a single syllable of it.
An introduction by Sharif Gemie places Bellegarrigue in his social and political context of the struggles for emancipation following on from the French revolution.
Tom Brown
British Syndicalism: Pages from Labour History
Kate Sharpley Library, 1994. 27p, ill. 21cm. pamphlet £1 / $3
Writings from a shop steward concerning tactics in the class war — from the sharp end.
Tom Brown
Tom Brown's Syndicalism
Phoenix Press 111p. 0-948984-16-3. Book £3 / $7
Important book with some of Brown's great essays and pamphlets including: 'The British General Strike 1926', 'What's wrong with the unions' and 'principles of Syndicalism'.
K. Bullstreet
Bash the Fash (1) Anti-fascist recollections 1984-1993
Kate Sharpley Library, 2001. 36p, ill, 1-873605-87-0 pamphlet £5 (£2 to individual bulletin subscribers) / $3
A no-punches pulled account of Anti Fascist Action's fight against fascism in Britain by a grassroots anarchist member of AFA.
Excellent reading! — S. Poland
I must confess that I was till now rather sceptical about street encounters, but from that experience I'll have to think it over! — Ronald Creaghe, France, moderator, "Research on Anarchism" list
Gordon Carr
The Angry Brigade : The Cause and the Case
Christiebooks, 2003. ISBN 1-8739976-21-6, 151 p.; ill.; A4;
£30 / £15 individual subscriber price / $30 including s&h
Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against property. A series of communiques accompanied the actions, explaining the choice of targets and the Angry Brigade philosophy: autonomous organisation and attacks on property alongside other forms of militant working class action. Targets included the embassies of repressive regimes, police stations and army barracks, boutiques and factories, government departments and the homes of Cabinet ministers, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
These attacks on the homes of senior political figures increased the pressure for results and brought an avalanche of police raids. From the start the police were faced with the difficulty of getting to grips with a section of society they found totally alien. And were they facing an organisation — or an idea?
This book covers the roots of the Angry Brigade in the revolutionary ferment of the 1960s, and follows their campaign and the police investigation to its culmination in the 'Stoke Newington 8' conspiracy trial at the Old Bailey — the longest criminal trial in British legal history.
Gordon Carr produced the BBC documentary on the Angry Brigade and followed it up with this book. Written after extensive research — among both the libertarian opposition and the police — it remains the essential study of Britain's first urban guerrilla group. This expanded edition contains a comprehensive chronology of the 'Angry Decade', extra illustrations and a police view of the Angry Brigade. Introductions by Stuart Christie and John Barker (two of the 'Stoke Newington 8' defendants) discuss the Angry Brigade in the political and social context of its times — and its longer-term significance.
Julio Carrapato
The Almost Perfect Crime : The Misrepresentation of Portuguese Anarchism
Series: Anarchist Library # 4, ISBN 1-873605-68-4,
£3 (£2 to individual bulletin subscribers) / $3
Portuguese anarchism has been overshadowed by the events in neighbouring Spain and often deliberately ignored by statist partisans of communism and liberalism. But, for all that, Portugal has a long tradition of libertarian organisation. It runs from the first days of the International in the 1870s, to the insurrection of 1910, fighting the fascist dictatorship from the 1920s to the '70s, continuing up to the present day. This pamphlet uncovers that hidden history.
Stuart Christie
Edward Heath Made me Angry: The Christie File Part 3, 1967-1975 (The later memoirs of a west of Scotland 'Baby boomer')
Christiebooks, 2004. 308 pages, illustrated, A4. ISBN 1873976232
£40 (£25 for subscribers) / $30
Stuart Christie's rewritten version of "The Christie File" is now complete. "Edward Heath Made Me Angry" covers Christie's return to Britain after his ill-fated mission for the Spanish Anarchist resistance (recounted in "General Franco Made Me A Terrorist"). But though returning, he was not retiring and he threw himself back into libertarian activism — notably restarting the Anarchist Black Cross, writing for "Black Flag" and agitating for anarchism — and trying to hold down a full time job.
We get a grassroots view of the rise of the counterculture, and an insider's story of how political activism turned into class war as the heightened expectations of a new generation of radicals clashed with governments bent on maintaining control by any means. Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath made a lot of people angry!
As well as his own story, Christie recounts the activities of the "Angry Brigade", whose victimless protest bombings made them "Public Enemy Number One" - to the police, press and politicians, if not to the public. Holding down his job became increasingly difficult with the police camped outside his workplace and the media dropping hints about how the blame for all this lay with letting certain Scottish Anarchists come back from Spain... All of which came to a climax when Christie was arrested and explosives "found" in the car he was driving.
A fair part of the book is taken up with the "Stoke Newington Eight" trial of "likely candidates" for membership of the Angry Brigade. One of the longest British criminal trials, it was also one of the most political of political ones, pitting libertarians who had no intention either saying "Fair cop, Guv" or "It was not me, it was the others!" against policemen who couldn't really understand the "disloyalty" of the Angry Brigade.
But as well as this, you get Luddites, Bandits and the Strategy of Tension! Written with thirty-plus years of hindsight — and without the secret police breathing down anyone's neck — this is a much fuller account of the angry years than anyone else has produced so far. Like "My Granny Made Me An Anarchist" and "General Franco Made Me A Terrorist" this is a heavily illustrated limited edition. It's an excellent account of Christie's life, the anarchist movement and one particularly intense period of the constant struggle for a better world.
Stuart Christie
My Granny made me an Anarchist, The Christie file part 1 1946-64
(the cultural and political formation of a west of Scotland 'baby-boomer')
Christiebooks, 2002. ISBN 1-873976-14-3 257 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. £30 / $30 including s&h
The Christie File part 2, 1964-1967 General Franco made me a 'terrorist'
(the interesting years abroad of a west of Scotland 'baby-boomer')
Christiebooks, 2003. ISBN 1-873976-19-4 iv, 258 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. £30 / $30 including s&h
Expanded version of the Christie File covering his route to anarchism, activism in the sixties and historical background on the Spanish resistance (vol. 1) and his journey to (and imprisonment in) Spain as part of the anti-Franco resistance with comprehensive notes on what was going on outside the walls (vol. 2) the ordinary life story of someone who lived through extraordinary events because 'freedom' and 'anti-fascism' were not just words to pay lip service to.
Stuart Christie
Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist
Black Papers No. 1, Anarchy Magazine
Refract Publications, 1984. ISBN 0-946222-09-6 vii, 182 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. £4 / $7.00
Examination of the career of a fascist terrorist asking: who benefited from
his activities? A serious look at the Italian 'strategy of tension' and the
forces behind it.
Stuart Christie
We, the anarchists! A study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Meltzer press / Jura Media, 2000. 136p, 24cm. 1-901172-06-6 paperback
£7.95 / $12
No anarchist organisation has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica, better known by its initials — the FAI.
There are two dimensions to this book. The first is descriptive and historical: it outlines the evolution of the organised anarchist movement in Spain and its relationship with the wider labour movement. At the same time it provides some insight into the main ideas which made the Spanish labour movement one of the most revolutionary of modern times. The second is analytical and tries to address from an anarchist perspective the problem of understanding and coping with change in the contemporary world; how can ideals survive the process of institutionalisation?
Giuseppe Ciancabilla (and others)
Fired by the Ideal: Italian-American Anarchist Responses to Czolgosz's killing of McKinley
Articles from L'Aurora of Spring Valley, Illinois.
Additional material by Mario Mapelli from Bollettino Archivio G. Pinelli:
Giuseppe Ciancabilla: A Look at Italian-American Anarchism at the beginning of the 20th century;
Italian Anarchist Groups Active in the USA 1899-1904.
Translated from the Italian by Paul Sharkey
Kate Sharpley Library, 2002. 28 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN 1-873605-08-0, 28 pages £3 (£1.50 individuals) / $5.00
"…we wish no tragedy because we are the foes of violence and averse to the spilling of the blood of our fellows; but an iron logic, the product of brutal criminality, of the power of men exercised upon their fellow men, and of the benighted cowardice of him who obeys, means that we can see no solution to the problem of the freedom of all and of each, other than in the dogged, constant rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor…"
"[w]e anarchists contend that the individual who stands highest on the social ladder and best embodies the political and economic oppression from which the labouring people suffers horribly, that individual is naturally the one most exposed to eruptions of rebellion from the oppressed and disinherited, from sufferers with emancipated minds as well as from empty-bellied sufferers. In the calling of president, king, emperor, there are professional risks and work hazards…"
George Cores
Personal Recollections of the Anarchist Past
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000. 18p, 22cm. 1-873605-05-6 pamphlet
£1 / $3
Written in 1947 and then laid aside, these are recollections from the inside of the anarchist movement 1883-1939 by a forgotten veteran.
An intimate glimpse into anarchist history — Left Bank Books
The Dawn Collective
Under the Yoke of the State: Selected Anarchist
Responses to Prisons and Crime, 1886-1929.
Series: Anarchist Sources #3
Kate Sharpley Library, 2003. ISBN:1-873605-48-X 60 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. £3 / $3 in s&h
This pamphlet offers personal reflections from anarchists about time spent
behind bars and critiques of the prison system from the Haymarket frame-up
to the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. It gives direct testimony on the treatment of
prisoners in numerous penitentiaries, World War One internment camps, and
Bolshevik jails. It also presents many viewpoints on how capitalism's
exploitation is society's greatest crime, and how anti-social acts would be
treated in a truly free and just world.
Anarchists have always opposed the prison system. As an institution of the
state, it has been used to humiliate and mentally destroy the working class
and politically minded who have stood up against their bosses.
This collection includes complete essays by Peter Kropotkin (Prisons and
Their Moral Influence on Prisoners), Emma Goldman (Prisons: A Social Crime
and Failure), and Alexander Berkman (Crime). Plus material from anarchist
fighters Ricardo Flores Magón, Errico Malatesta, Louise Michel, Albert
Parsons, Rudolf Rocker, Mollie Steimer, and others.
Sam Dolgoff
Fragments: a Memoir
Refract, 1986. 200p, ill. 21cm. 0-946222-04-5 paperback
£3 / $8
Autobiographical recollections drawn from a lifetime of struggle in the cause of anarchism, chiefly in the United States but covering contacts with a host of others.
Rebecca Edelsohn (and others)
The Anarchist Response to War and Labor Violence in 1914:
Rebecca Edelsohn, Alexander Berkman, Anti-militarism, Free Speech and Hunger Strikes
Kate Sharpley Library, 2003. 25 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 1-873605-57-9 £3 (£2 post free individuals) / $3 including s&h
Rebecca (Becky) Edelsohn was a dynamic New York Anarchist active in unemployment protests, anti-militarism, and solidarity actions with both the Mexican Revolution and the Colorado miners strike at the time of Rockerfeller's notorious Ludlow Massacre.
This work examines both the New York Anarchist movement of the time (including the Lexington Avenue explosion which killed four militants) and her personal struggle - on the streets, in the courts, and finally in jail.
Concluded with writings from "The Woman Rebel" and "Mother Earth", including her speech at the memorial of Caron, Berg and Hanson.
Andrea Ferrari & Aldo Aguzzi
Pages from Italian Anarchist History
Kate Sharpley Library, 1995. 20p, 21cm. 1-873605-22-6 pamphlet
£1 / $3
(The Anarchism of the Cervi Brothers by Andrea Ferrari, and Italian Anarchist Volunteers in Barcelona and the Events of May 1937 by Aldo Aguzzi) An account of the anti-fascist resistance inside Italy — and of the struggle against Stalinism during the Spanish Civil War.
Simon Ford
The realization and suppression of the Situationist International; An annotated bibliography 1972-1992
AK Press 1995. 149p, 21cm. 1-873176-82-1 book
£7.95 / $12
Books by and about the crazy gang.
Juan Garcia Oliver
Wrong Steps: Errors in the Spanish revolution
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000. 30p, 21cm. 1-873605-72-2 pamphlet
£1.50 / $3
Garcia Oliver was a leading anarchist militant, long-standing comrade of Durruti and Ascaso. Taken from his autobiography, El eco de los pasos (echoing footsteps), this is his (controversial) assessment of where the CNT went wrong during the long-awaited Spanish revolution. Also includes a number of responses to his account.
Miguel Garcia
Unknown heroes: biographies of Anarchist resistance fighters
Kate Sharpley Library. 20 pages, A5 pamphlet, ISBN 1-873605-83-8
£3 (£2 post free for direct orders) / $3
Meet "Burnt Face," "Bread Swallower" and "The Catalan" – just a few of the Anarchist militants of the resistance to Franco. Having survived the struggle against fascism in occupied France, they took the fight back to Franco's murderous system. They also paid the ultimate price, in ambushes by the ferocious Guardia Civil, facing the firing squad, or in the cells of the secret police. Miguel García (1908-1981) was not a historian of the Anarchist resistance to Franco, but a participant. These biographies form a tribute to fallen comrades from one who very nearly joined them. They are also testimony to a struggle still scarcely known.
Miguel GarciaMiguel Garcia was one of the survivors of the libertarian resistance
which refused, either at the end of the Spanish Civil War or World War
Two, to give up the fight for freedom.
This pamphlet contains an interview from shortly after Miguel Garcia's
arrival in London in 1969. In it, he explains the motivation and methods
of the resistance. It is complemented by some of Miguel's letters to the
press and introduced by a tribute from the Kate Sharpley Library.
Miguel Garcia
Miguel Garcia's story
Cienfuegos & Miguel Garcia Memorial Committee, 1982. 72p, ill. 21cm. 0904564-54-5 pamphlet
£2 / $3
Memoirs and appreciation of a man who held an important place in the European anarchist movement after his release from a twenty year sentence, imposed for resistance activities inside Spain.
Victor Garcia
Three Japanese Anarchists: Kotoku, Osugi and Yamaga
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000. 30p, 21cm. 1-873605-62-5 pamphlet
£1.50 / $3
Victor Garcia (sometimes known as 'the Marco Polo of anarchism' for the length and breadth of his travels) recounts the stories of three of the major figures of Japanese anarchism, each shedding light on the wider social context as well as the struggles of the Japanese anarchist movement.
Sylvain Garel
Louis Lecoin: An Anarchist Life
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000. 34p, 28cm. 1-873605-52-8 large pamphlet
£1.50 / $6
Anarcho-Communist, Anarcho-Syndicalist, Anti-Militarist, but always involved in social struggles, Louis Lecoin's life presents the map of a journey through the French Anarchist movement for more than half a century.
Daniel Guérin
No Gods No Masters (Vol. 1 & 2)
AK Press & Kate Sharpley Library, 1998. 294p; 276p, ill. 23cm. 1-873176-64-3 (Vol. 1) 1-873176-69-4 (Vol. 2) paperback
£11.95 each / $16.95 each
The seminal history of anarchism, told through the words of those that actually participated. The two volumes cover the classic thinkers and activists up till the end of the Spanish Revolution. An essential anthology of anarchist thought in action and context.
Agustin Guillamon
The Friends Of Durruti Group: 1937-1939
AK Press & Kate Sharpley Library, 1996. 114p, ill. 23cm. 1-873176-54-6 paperback
£7.95 / $9.95
"Revolutions without theory fail to make progress. We of the 'Friends Of Durruti' have outlined our thinking, which may be amended as appropriate in great social upheavals but which hinges upon two essential points which cannot be avoided. A program, and rifles."
— El Amigo del Pueblo, No. 5, July 20, 1937
Spain 1936-1939: This is the story of a group of anarchists engaged in the most thoroughgoing social and economic revolution of all time. Essentially street fighters with a long pedigree of militant action, they used their own experiences to arrive at the finest contemporary analysis of the Spanish Revolution. In doing so they laid down essential markers for all future revolutionaries. This study — drawing on interviews with participants and synthesising archival information — is the definitive text on these unsung activists.
Rhona M. Hodgart
Ethel MacDonald: Glasgow woman anarchist
Kate Sharpley Library. 23p, 21cm. pamphlet £1 / $3
Ethel MacDonald was a comrade of Guy Aldred's who travelled to Spain during the civil war, worked as a radio announcer and was imprisoned by the communists. This pamphlet tells her life story.
An 'Uncontrollable' from the Iron Column
A Day Mournful and Overcast
Series: Anarchist Library #1.
Kate Sharpley Library, 2003. ISBN 1-873605-33-1, ii, 21 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. £3 £2 (post free) individuals / $3 including s&h
Please see listing below.
Justice for Mark Barnsley
Beaten Up! Fitted up! Locked up! Mark Barnsley and 'the Pomona Incident' — a miscarriage of justice.
Justice for Mark Barnsley, 2000. 44p, 21cm. pamphlet
£2 / $4
An account of the frightening events which deprived a Sheffield writer of his freedom: from an assault by drunken students to police and prosecution collusion to win a conviction and prevent the true facts of the case coming to light.
Justice For Mark Barnsley
In the Hands of the Enemy: Mark Barnsley's Struggle for Justice
Justice for Mark Barnsley, 92 p., £6 / $10
More on the case of Mark Barnsley, framed but still fighting for justice. Anyone who believes in revolutionary change would learn a lot from this book: this is not just a warning of what the state can (and will) do, but also an inspiring account of revolutionary principles in action.
Anna Key, ed
Mayday and Anarchism : Remembrance and Resistance From Haymarket to Now
Cover art by Clifford Harper
Series: Anarchist Sources #4
ISBN 1-873605-53-6 36 p. : A5 Pamphlet.
£3 / $3 in s&h
Mayday means more than maypoles and pagan love rites. It's remembrance of class struggle and resistance. It commemorates the Haymarket Martyrs of Chicago who were framed — and executed — for their anarchist ideas and fighting for the eight hour day. Since the 1890s workers have marked Mayday all across the world.
Anarchists have always insisted on its revolutionary meaning — in essence that we will get nothing without fighting for it. Politicians (of one sort or another) have always tried to co-opt or sanitise it: "Follow your leaders!" "That was then, this is now"
The world has changed since the 1880s — but the more things change, the more they stay the same. We still live in a world where exploitation rules, and where the police and media are tools in the hands of the rich and powerful.
This pamphlet shows the origins and history of Mayday, and the differing ways in which Anarchists have responded to its call.
Anna Key, ed
No War But The Class War! Libertarian Anti-Militarism Then and Now
Series: Anarchist Sources # 1
Kate Sharpley Library, 2003. 21 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. A5 pamphlet ISBN 1-873605-13-7
Price: £2 Post Free / Europe: 5 Euros (well hidden cash) / $3 including s&h
This pamphlet presents 110 years of anti-militarist propaganda, from Spain's last imperialist adventure in 1893, through the First World War right up to the 'War on Terror'. It includes Randolph Bourne's classic analysis of why war is the 'health of the state' and a recent dissection of the myths of Remembrance Day.
Libertarians have opposed the armed forces as the ultimate prop of the state, a pool of scab labour and the place where the authority principle (orders, not logic) runs rampant. Anarchists have always argued that the alternative to dying for our leaders is fighting for a new world. There's a brief glimpse of how this looks in practice, from the Ukraine's Makhnovist insurgents to Spain's revolutionary militias.
Libertarian anti-militarists don't want the kind of peace that is only a breathing space between wars but peace from below. To get all leaders and bosses off our backs, no war but the class war will do!
"Opponents of war and tyranny are heartily recommended to get hold of a copy"
— so says The Pork-Bolter (Independent Voice of Today's Worthing) Number 53, March 2003.
PO Box 4144, Worthing, BN14 7NZ
Ignacio de Llorens
The CNT and the Russian Revolution
Kate Sharpley Library, 1996. 16p, 21cm. 1-873605-37-4 pamphlet
£1 / $3
What were the relations between the anarcho-syndicalist CNT and the Russian Bolshevik regime? An account of their entry and exit from the Red International of Labour Unions which also sheds light on the early careers of activists such as Angel Pestaña.
Wilf McCartney
Dare to be a Daniel!
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000. 25p, 21cm. 1-873605-52-0 pamphlet
£1 / $3
Brief history of one of Britain's earliest syndicalist unions. McCartney, a catering worker from age 10, gives a vivid description of the conditions in the kitchens of London's West End restaurants, the rise of a revolutionary syndicalist union in 1910, the ways in which it won every strike it undertook (!), and its eventual demise in 1914 with World War I. An important page of anarchist/labour history.
Nestor Makhno
The Struggle Against The State And Other Essays
AK Press & Kate Sharpley Library, 1996. 114p, 22cm. 1-873176-78-3 paperback
£7.95 / $9.95
Essays written in exile by the Ukrainian anarchist, looking back on the Russian revolution, Bolshevik slanders and anarchist organisation - and also forward to the achievements of the Spanish revolution.
One of the most elusive and myth-ridden figures of twentieth century anarchism … excellent if you're a Makhno buff … with real relevance beyond Makhno in that it addresses problems which let the anarchist movement down — Black Flag
Enlightening and powerful — Anarchist Age Weekly Review
Umberto Marzocchi
Remembering Spain: Italian Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Kate Sharpley Library, 1999. 28p, 21cm. 1-873605-42-0 pamphlet
£1.50 / $3
A personal account from a militant who served on the Aragon front. It also covers the events of May 1937 in Barcelona and the Communists' murder of Camillo Berneri.
Albert Meltzer
Anarchism: arguments for and against
AK Press, 2000. 96p, 17cm. 1-873176-57-0 paperback
£3.95
A revised edition of the definitive pocket primer.
Albert Meltzer
First Flight: Origins of the Anarcho-syndicalist movement in Britain
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000. 25p, ill. 22cm. 1-873605-10-2 pamphlet £1 / $3
How did the British labour movement go the way it has? What is syndicalism and how did it make an impact on trade unionism? Has Anarcho-syndicalism a history? An informative overview.
Albert Meltzer
I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels: Sixty Years of commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation
AK Press & Kate Sharpley Library, 1996. 386p, ill. 22cm. 1-873176-93-7 paperback
£12.95
Joining the British anarchist movement in the mid-1930s, Albert Meltzer was involved in so many struggles that this autobiography represents a large helping of European (and global) anarchist history, too.
A gentle and generous soul who is one of the leading figures in British anarchism — Duncan Campbell
The doyen of the British anarchist movement — Special Branch
Max Nettlau
A Contribution to an Anarchist Bibliography of Latin America
Kate Sharpley Library, 1994. 33p, 28cm. 1-873605-02-1 large pamphlet £4 / $8
Nettlau (1865-1944) was one of the Anarchist movement's greatest historians. This bibliography, with explanatory observations, shows the extent and energy of Anarchist movements in Latin America and is an essential starting place for studying them.
David Nicoll
Life in English Prisons (one hundred years ago)
Kate Sharpley Library. 1-873605-15-3, 24 p. Pamphlet
£1 / $3
Exposing the police frame-up of anarchists in the West Midlands in the 1890s.
David Nicoll
Stanley's Exploits, or, Civilising Africa
Kate Sharpley Library 17p. 1873605978 pamphlet
£3 (or £1.50 to individuals) / $3
David Nicoll was an anarchist militant, active in Sheffield and London, who was never afraid to give the powerful the sharp side of his tongue. Here he berates Stanley and his cheerleaders in the press who thought that massacring Africans in the cause of 'civilising' them was a price worth paying! Good sharp anti-colonialist diatribe.
David Nicoll
The Walsall Anarchists: Trapped by the police
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000. 27p, 22cm. 1-873605-40-4 pamphlet £1 / $3
Nicoll's account of the notorious framing of the Walsall Anarchists by Britain's political police under Inspector Melville.
Alan O'Toole
With the Poor People of the Earth: A Biography of Doctor John Creaghe of Sheffield and Buenos Aires.
Anarchist Library Series #7 Kate Sharpley Library, 2005
ISBN: 1-873605-78-1 60 p. : ill ; 21 cm. £3 / $3
John (Juan) Creaghe (1841-1920) turned his back on the chance of a porsperous medical career to live among the workers.
He spent an extraordinary lifetime struggling for anarchism: fighting bailiffs and establishing the scurrilous Sheffield
Anarchists, working in Argentina on La Protesta, (for years the main voice of the labour movement), and supporting the Mexican anarchist
Magon brothers at the time of the Mexican revolution.
Alan O'Toole's biography resues the story of this inspiring figure, assessing his worldwide agitation, showing his interactions with figures like William Morris and Edward Carpenter,
and illuminating a large slice of Anarchism's "heroic years."
Des Patchrider
The Couriers are Revolting: The Despatch Industry Workers Union 1989-92
Kate Sharpley Library, 2000 26p. 21cm. 1-873605-67-6 pamphlet
£1.50 / $3
Anarcho-syndicalism on bikes! An insiders account of the ups and downs of organising an anarcho-syndicalist union in London's despatch industry.
Lively and candid — Industrial worker
Honest and funny — private hire and courier
John Patten
Islands of Anarchy : Simian, Cienfuegos and Refract 1969-1987
An annotated bibliography
Kate Sharpley Library, 2003. ISBN 1-873605-23-4 xiv, 77 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. Spiral bound
Price: £30 / £20 / $25 to libraries for direct orders received before 1/1/04 —
£15 / $20 to individual KSL Bulletin subscribers
Simian and Cienfuegos came out of the anarchist resurgence of the nineteen sixties. Under the direction of Stuart Christie, the charismatic Scottish anarchist, they went from duplicated pamphlets to an ambitious book publishing programme. Cienfuegos (and later Refract) developed an international network of collaborators and supporters and an impressive list of titles recording anarchist history and advancing a practical libertarian critique of authoritarianism. Their achievements included the irregular but voluminous Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review and the controversial resistance handbook Towards A Citizens' Militia.
This bibliography has been produced with the assistance of people who were involved in these publishing projects. An introduction tells the story of Simian, Cienfuegos and Refract and places them in their historical and political context. Section A, organised chronologically, records full bibliographic details of titles published by Simian, Cienfuegos and Refract and gives an insight into the publishing history of each item. Section B clears up confusion surrounding titles distributed but not published by Simian, Cienfuegos or Refract. Section c gives a comprehensive list of titles projected but never completed. Each section gives details of previous and later editions for each item to allow an assessment of their place in anarchist publishing history. The appendices reproduce contemporary documents which illuminate the history, practice and motivation of these projects.
This bibliography will be a vital reference work for those studying modern British and European anarchism. It also presents the publishing historian with an in-depth examination of three radical publishing ventures, the international network which they developed and the political context in which they operated.
John Patten
Ned Kelly's Ghost: The Tottenham IWW and the Tottenham Tragedy
Kate Sharpley Library, 1997. 23p, 21cm. 1-873605-32-3 pamphlet
£1 / $3
Three members of the Australian section of the Industrial Workers of the World were accused of killing a policeman during the height of Australia's internal divisions during the First World War: What was the background to the Tottenham Tragedy?
[He] should be congratulated for putting in the hard yards to dig this story out of the N.S.W. government archives — Anarchist Age Weekly Review (Melbourne)
John Patten (ed.)
Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography
Kate Sharpley Library/ Anarchist Archives Project, 1998. 32p, 30cm. 1-873605-27-7 large pamphlet
£7.50 / $12
A listing of papers, books and pamphlets from the Yiddish-language anarchist movement, with titles in Yiddish, transliterated and translated.
In addition to a long and detailed catalogue, what this bibliography has to offer is an insight into the lives of thousands of militants, sometimes famous, sometimes nameless, and into their concerted struggle for a better world. — Pinelli Archive bulletin
José Peirats Valls (Edited by Chris Ealham, Translated by Paul Sharkey and Chris Ealham)
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, Volume 1
Meltzer Press, 2001. 299p, 25cm. 1-901172-05-8 book £15 plus postage / $18
Special offer price for KSL subscribers £12 plus postage
Postage 1st class £2.39 and 2nd class £1.74
The classic account, much quoted but never before available in English. Using a multitude of primary sources, this covers the origins and development of the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour) before 1936 and the early events and achievements of the revolution.
Fredy Perlman
Anything Can Happen
Phoenix Press 126p. 0-948984-22-8. Book
£4.50 / $8
Nine of Perlman's most important shorter writings including 'The continuing appeal of nationalism', 'Anti-Semitism and the Beirut pogrom' and 'The reproduction of daily life'.
The Early Days of Greek Anarchism: 'The Democratic
Club of Patras' & 'Social Radicalism in Greece'
Edited and translated by Paul Pomonis
Series: Anarchist Library # 4, Kate Sharpley Library, 2004.
ISBN 1-873605-68-4, 26 p. £3 (£2 for subscribers) / $3
During the days of the First International, Anarchism took root in Greece: the first Greek Anarchist Publication came out in 1861. The Democratic Club of Patras (founded in 1876) was organised to spread Anarchist ideas. Their newspaper Hellenic Democracy brought down the first wave of government repression, but the seed had been planted...
Odon Por
The Italian glassblowers takeover of 1910: Syndicalism in action
Kate Sharpley Library, 1992. 16p, 22cm. 1-873605-05-6 pamphlet
£1 / $3
Their militant organisation, and attempt to free themselves from the Capitalist system, together with an epilogue on what happened later.
Emile Pouget
Direct Action
Series: Anarchist Library #2
Kate Sharpley Library, 2003. ISBN 1-873605-43-9, 19 p. ; 21 cm. £3, £2 (post free) individuals / $3 including s&h
Direct Action is the classic statement of revolutionary syndicalism. Against the slavery that is capitalism, Pouget proposes not faith in the go-betweens of parliament (or union leaderships!) but workers' own action. Action to win small victories, strengthening and inspiring the working class for the big one: the destruction of capitalism and rebuilding society from the bottom up.
Edgar Rodrigues, Renato Ramos and Alexandre Samis, Translated and edited by Paul Sharkey
Against All Tyranny! Essays on Anarchism in Brazil
Series: Anarchist Sources # 2
Kate Sharpley Library ISBN 1-873605-18-8, 33 p. ; 22 cm.
£5 (£2 to bulletin subscribers) / $3.00 including s&h
OUT OF PRINT
Emigration was one of the great dreams of nineteenth century European workers, and Brazil was just one of the 'New Worlds' which took them, and showed them that the promise of such promised lands was easily broken. But the anarchist dream of freedom and revolution came with them, and workers — Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Brazilian — fought to make it a reality. And it was not only rampant capitalism they had to fight, but also state-worshippers, both Left and Right. This pamphlet contains an outline of the history of the anarchist movement in Brazil to the present day and records some of the figures who made it what it was.
Phil Ruff
The Albert Memorial: The Anarchist life and times of Albert Meltzer
22p. 1-901172-10-4 £6
A tribute to the Anarchist militant looking back on the many struggles of an active life.
Paul Sharkey, translator
The Buenos Aires Tragedy: 29 January — 2 February 1931
The Last Fight of Severino di Giovanni and Paulo Scarfó
Series: Anarchist Library #3, Kate Sharpley Library, 2004.
ISBN 1-873605-58-7, 35 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. £3 (£2 individuals) / $3 including s&h
No discussion of Italian Anarchism, the movement in Argentina or illegalism can pass over Severino di Giovanni and his comrades in silence. With both written propaganda and acts of violence they attacked fascism, the framing of Sacco and Vanzetti, the dictatorship and the entire capitalist order. Their uncompromising revolt led them into conflict with other anarchists — and to a final, fatal showdown with the state that they defied.
This pamphlet is a tribute originally published in L'Adunata dei Refrattari, drawing on letters from comrades in Argentina who had escaped the final repression. A letter from América Scarfó — lover of Severino, sister of Paulo and comrade of both — is also included.
Antonio Tellez
The Anarchist Resistance to Franco
Kate Sharpley Library, 1994. 50p, chiefly ill. 21cm. 1-873605-65-X pamphlet
£2 / $3
Biographical portraits & photographs of anarchists who fought in the second wave of resistance against Franco at the end of the Spanish Civil War.
As Tellez states: "Any small selection of names among hundreds of thousands of victims is arbitrary.… [But] with the presentation of some names, with their physical image, we would like to remember all those who fell in the struggle against tyranny, in defence of Freedom."
Antonio Tellez
Sabate: Guerrilla Extraordinary
Elephant Editions & AK Press, 1998. 208p, 17cm. 1902593103 paperback
£5.95
The story of the last of the anarchist guerrillas, who carried on the struggle against the Franco regime until his death in action in 1960 — A struggle that a new wave of militants was to continue in the 1960s and '70s.
An 'Uncontrollable' from the Iron Column
A Day Mournful and Overcast
Series: Anarchist Library #1.
Kate Sharpley Library, 2003. ISBN 1-873605-33-1, ii, 21 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. £3 £2 (post free) individuals / $3 including s&h
A classic text of the Spanish Civil War. The Iron Column was notorious or famed for being made up of ex-prisoners, and also for its ferocious defence of its revolutionary principles.
This pamphlet gives us a direct line to the Spanish revolution and the hopes and dreams of the people who made it. This is not a piece of abstract theory, it's written from experience: the nature of prison, the misery of being treated as an animal and the joy, however brief, whatever the hardships, of really living, living free from the dead hand of the old world. More than a discussion of the politics of militarisation and control, itís a hymn to freedom — and a tribute to those who fight for it.
"Provides a wonderful introduction to the spirit of anarchism" — WSM, Ireland
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The Story of a Proletarian Life
Kate Sharpley Library, 2001. 18p, 21 cm. 1-873605-92-7 pamphlet
£3 (£1.50 to individual bulletin subscribers) / $3
The name of Vanzetti, like that of his comrade Sacco, resonates — it marks the biting point where revolutionary activism and state repression come to blows. This pamphlet, written in prison, throws a little light on the life of a man who was much more than a poor fish peddler, fighting for liberty and destined for the fame of a martyr.
Various
On fire: the battle of Genoa and the anti-capitalist movement
One-off Press 141p. 1-902593-54-5. Book
£3 / $8
Not just 'Hey I was on TV' accounts, but good analysis of events, the black block, and discussion of tactics.
Efim Yartchuk
Kronstadt in the Russian Revolution
Kate Sharpley Library, 1994. 36p, 28cm. 1-873605- large pamphlet
£3 / $7
Translated by Paul Sharkey from Skirda's 'Kronstadt 1921: Proletariat contre Bolchevisme'. This is an account of the importance of the naval citadel of Kronstadt from the beginning of the Russian Revolution until the victory of the 'red' bureaucracy.
P. Yerril & L. Rosser
Revolutionary Unionism in Latin America: the FORA in
Argentina
ASP, 1987. 48p, ill. 21cm. pamphlet
£1.50
An illustrated introduction to the history of one of the largest revolutionary unions, also covering related parts of Argentine history such as the pampas insurrection (the 'bloody week') and Simon Radowitsky.
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