Book reviews

• Action! Race War to Door Wars [Review].
• Admiral, -. On the edge of life: Memories of an anarchist 1943-44 [Review].
• The Aesthetics of Anarchy : Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde by Nina Gourianova [Book review].
• The Albert Memorial: The Anarchist life and times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920 - 7 May 1996) [Review].
• Alcatraz - Uncle Sam’s Devil’s Island : experiences of a conscientious objector in America during the First World War [review].
• Alexander Berkman The Blast introduced by Barry Pateman [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. Anarchist Voices. An Oral History of Anarchism in America by Paul Avrich [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. The Assassination Attempt on Franco from the Air: 1948 by Antonio Téllez [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. The Blast, edited by Alexander Berkman, Introduction by Barry Pateman [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz [Book review].
• Alexander, Richard. Granny Made Me An Anarchist: General Franco, the Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. Mayday and Anarchism. Remembrance and Resistance from Haymarket to now [A Review].
• Alexander, Richard. Nestor Makhno, Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 by Alexandre Skirda [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity by Dan Berger [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. Two new pamphlets from the Kate Sharpley Library [Review].
• Alexander, Richard. What is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman [A Review].
• Alexander, Richard. With The Poor People Of The Earth. A Biography of Doctor John Creaghe of Sheffield and Buenos Aires by Alan O'Toole [Review].
• Alexandre Skirda, Nestor Makhno - Anarchy's Cossack : The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine, 1917-1921 [Review].
• Anarchism & Violence : Severino Di Giovanni [Review].
• Anarchism: a documentary history of libertarian ideas, volume one, From anarchy to anarchism (300-1939) edited by Robert Graham [Review].
• Anarchism and Moral Philosophy [Book Review].
• Anarchism and Worker's Self Management in Revolutionary Spain By Frank Mintz [Book Review].
• Anarchism: Arguments for and against [2023, review].
• Anarchism by Daniel Guérin, introduction by Noam Chomsky [Review].
• Anarchism for beginners by Marcos Mayer and Sanyu [Review].
• Anarchism in North East England 1882-1992 [review].
• Anarchist Communist Memories of the Miners Strike [Pamphlet Review].
• The Anarchist Expropriators by Osvaldo Bayer [Review].
• Anarchist Odyssey, or the Christie File expanded [Review].
• Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America Paul Avrich (AK Press, 2005) [Review].
• The Anarchists in London 1935-1955 : a Personal Memoir by Albert Meltzer [Review].
• Asare, Maira. Facts against myths [Book review].
• At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism by Errico Malatesta [Review].
• Avrich, Paul. The End of Anarchism? by Luigi Galleani [Book Review].
• Barker, John. Anarchy in the UK, by Tom Vague [Review].
• Barker, John. Johnny come home: a review.
• Barker, John. Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day" [Review].
• Barnsley, Mark. Bending The Bars - Prison Stories by John Barker [Review].
• Barnsley, Mark. Berkman's Prison Memoirs [Review].
• Bash the Fash : Anti-fascist recollections 1984-93 by K. Bullstreet [Review].
• Bash the Fash Reviewed.
• Beating The Fascists Review.
• A beautiful idea: history of the Freedom Press anarchists by Rob Ray [Book review].
• Bending the Bars : Prison Stories by John Barker [A Review].
• Berneri, Marie Louise. How the History of the Spanish War is written.
• Black, M. A State of Siege and The Iron Fist, both reports by Trade Unionists to the Yorkshire Area NUM. [Review].
• Bone, Ian. Beer And Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 by Tom Goyens [Review].
• Bone, Ian. The Intransigents of the Iron Column [book review].
• Book review: Guerrilla José Moreno Salazar remembers.
• Books for cooks (and other workers).
• Bookunin, M. Class War in Barcelona: "Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937" by Chris Ealham [Review].
• Bookunin, M. Ghost dancers: the miners' last generation by David John Douglass [Book review].
• Bookunin, M. Rabble rousers and merry pranksters : a history of anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s [Review].
• A brief history of the Centro Studi Libertari/ Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli by Luigi Balsamini [Review].
• Brook, Stan. Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham [Review].
• The Buenos Aires Tragedy: The Last Fight of Severino Di Giovanni and Paulo Scarfó [Review].
• Cameron, Ian. In the eye of the beholder [Review, The Angry Brigade by Gordon Carr].
• Chanka, T. Nestor Makhno Rides Again [Book review].
• Christie, Stuart. The Angry Brigade, Alan Burns [Book review].
• Christie, Stuart. Left, Right: The March of Political Extremism in Britain, by John Tomlison published by John Calder at £4.95 [Book review].
• Christie, Stuart. The Sash, Hector MacMillan [Book Review].
• Christie, Stuart. Soldiers Of The Night: The Story of the French Resistance by David Schoenbrun [Review].
• Underground passages: anarchist resistance culture 1848-2011 by Jesse Cohn [Book review].
• Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons : Anarchism and the Specter of Bakunin in Twentieth-century Russia by James Goodwin [Book Review].
• Corral, Francisco and Katheryn Gallant. Rafael Barrett, a brilliant anarchist misrepresented [Review].
• The Couriers are Revolting : The Despatch Industry Workers Union 1989-92 by Des Patchrider [Review Extracts].
• The De Luca Trilogy by Carlo Lucarelli [Review].
• The Death of Durruti by Joan Llarch.
• The death ship sails on [Review of "The Death Ship" by B. Traven].
• Defeat and Revival : Thoughts on The Weight of the Stars [Book Review].
• Disposition, Sonny. The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna [Book review].
• Dolgoff, Sam. George Woodcock: a muddled history of anarchism [Book review].
• Dolgoff, Sam. In The Struggle For Equality: The Story Of The Anarchist Red Cross by B. Yelensky [Review].
• The dossier of subject no.1218 : a Bulgarian anarchist’s story by Alexander Nakov [Review].
• Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz, translated by Chuck Morse, afterword by José Luis Gutierréz Molina [Review] .
• Ealham, Chris. Immense enthusiasm and optimism : 'A Life For Anarchy: A Stuart Christie Reader' [book review].
• Emma Goldman: political thinking in the streets by Kathy Ferguson [Book review].
• Everett, Martyn. Douglas Oliver: Whisper ‘Louise’: A double historical memoir and meditation [book review].
• Everett, Martyn. For Workers' Power: the Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton [Review].
• ex-Liverpool AFA member, An. Beating the Fascists – a view from the North.
• Facerías : Urban Guerrilla Warfare (1939-1957) ; The Libertarian Movement's Struggle Against Francoism in Spain and in Exile by Antonio Téllez Solà [Book Review].
• The Federación Uruguaya Anarquista: Crisis, armed struggle & dictatorship, 1967-85 [Review].
• Fighting For Ourselves: Anarcho-syndicalism and the Class Struggle by the Solidarity Federation [Book Review].
• The Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer : some thoughts.
• Flowers for the rebels who failed: Rebellion in Patagonia by Osvaldo Bayer [Book Review].
• For a Future Made By Us All [Book Review].
• Franks, Benjamin. Ian Bone, Bash the Rich: True-life confessions of an Anarchist in the UK [Review].
• Free Society: A German exile in revolutionary Spain by Werner Droescher [Book Review].
• The French Anarchists in London 1880-1914 (Constance Bantman); The Knights Errant of Anarchy[1] (Pietro Di Paola) [Book Review].
• Futures by John Barker [Book review].
• Garcia Garcia, Miguel. Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer [Book review].
• Garcia Guirao, Pedro. Charlatan Stew, ed., News of the Spanish Revolution: Anti-authoritarian Perspectives on the Events [Book review].
• Good, Peter. Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture [Book review].
• A Grand Cause: The hunger strike & the deportation of anarchists from Soviet Russia [Review].
• Granny made me an Anarchist, General Franco, the Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie [Review].
• Guillamón, Agustín. Memoirs of a FAI Gunman and a Chronicle of Anarchist Barcelona [Book Review].
• H., Martin. The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid [Review].
• Hart, John M. Land and Liberty: Anarchist Influences in the Mexican Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magón [Book review].
• Haymarket: A Novel by Martin Duberman [Review].
• Hendy, Mark. The Princess Casamassima by Henry James [Review].
• A History of the French Anarchist Movement 1917 to 1945 by David Berry [Review].
• Hoff, Devin. Worth a Second Look No. 2. Re-reading Kuwasi Balagoon’s ‘Anarchy Can’t Fight Alone’.
• How to write a book review.
• I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels by Albert Meltzer [Review].
• The Idea by Nick Heath [Book review].
• Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona [Book review].
• Islands of Anarchy, Simian, Cienfuegos and Refract 1969-1987: An Annotated Bibliography [Review].
• Italian Anarchism, 1864-1892 by Nunzio Pernicone [Review].
• Jennings, Tom. Chronicle of a Crash Foretold: Futures, by John Barker [A book review].
• Ken Weller (1935-2021) and ‘Don’t be a Soldier!’.
• KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 88, October 2016.
• La Nueve – 24 August 1944. The Spanish Republicans who liberated Paris by Evelyn Mesquida [Book review].
• Left of the Left: my memories of Sam Dolgoff [Book review].
• Library (book) news (October 2016).
• A Life for Anarchy [Book review].
• The Makhnovshchina and Its Aftermath: Documents from the movement and its survivors [Book review].
• Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s experiments with revolution 1889-1900 by Davide Turcato [Book review].
• Mamatas, Nick. Everyday Anarchist.
• May '68 and its Afterlives [Review].
• Mayday and Anarchism: Remembrance and Resistance From Haymarket to Now, Anna Key (ed.) [Review].
• McArdle, Jack. Anarcho-Syndicalism: History and Action [Review].
• McKenna, Edward. Ready for Revolution : The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938. [Book Review].
• Meltzer, Albert. Anarchy in Action by Colin Ward [Book review].
• Meltzer, Albert. Pinelli, Valpreda & state terror [Review of The Valpreda Papers: The prison diaries of Pietro Valpreda].
• Memoirs of a Fighter [Miguel Garcia Garcia, Looking Back After Twenty Years of Jail: Questions and Answers on the Spanish Anarchist Resistance] [Review].
• Men in Prison, Birth of Our Power and Conquered City, by Victor Serge [Review].
• Mental, Judge. Angry fictions: "My Revolutions" by Hari Kunzru and "Johnny Come Home" by Jake Arnott [Review].
• Miller, Peter. Sabate: Guerrilla Extraordinary by Antonio Tellez [Book review].
• Mintz, Frank. Alexandre Skirda: Un plagiat “scientifique”: le copié-collé de Marx [‘Scientific’ Plagiarism: Marx’s Cut-and-Paste Job] [Book Review].
• Mintz, Frank. Anarchism by George Woodcock [Review].
• Mintz, Frank. A Siberian 'Makhnovshchina' [Review].
• Misfit by Jack White [Review].
• Alberola, Octavio and Xavier Montanyà. The Life and Universe of anarchist Octavio Alberola [book review].
• Mother Earth Rides Again [Review of] Anarchy! An anthology Of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, Edited and with commentary by Peter Glassgold.
• My Eighty-One Years of Anarchy : A Memoir by May Picqueray [Book review].
• New Books [Rebel Alliances, Anti-Fascist, Bending the Bars, Bash the Rich, Reviewed].
• New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism [Book Review].
• No Pasaran!!! [Review of The Iron Column: Testament of a Revolutionary by Elias Manzanera and Unknown Heroes: biographies of anarchist resistance fighters by Miguel Garcia].
• Not Just Spanish Bombs: The Return of The Christie File [My Granny made me an Anarchist, The Christie file part 1 1946-64] [Review].
• Obsolete Communism: The Left Wing Alternative [Review].
• One Man's War in Spain : Trickery, Treachery and Thievery By Joaquín Pérez Navarro.
• Oppositions: some anarchist writings of Ida Mett [Book review].
• Out of the shadows: two comrades of Ponzán Vidal [Book Review].
• Owen, William C. Rocker's Internment Memoirs [Review].
• Pateman, Barry. Anarchism, 1914-1918: Internationalism, anti-militarism and war [Book Review].
• Pateman, Barry. An Appeal to the Young: Some thoughts on a best seller.
• Pateman, Barry. Defiance: Anarchist Statements Before Judge and Jury (Detritus Books, 2019) [Book review].
• Pateman, Barry. Fellow Worker : Barry Pateman reviews Cole, Struthers, and Zimmer, Wobblies of the World.
• Pateman, Barry. Fighting the “monster of ignorance” [Book review].
• Pateman, Barry. Homuncula by John Henri Nolette [Book review].
• Pateman, Barry. Our Masters Are Helpless: The Essays of George Barrett edited by Iain McKay [book review].
• Pateman, Barry. Rachel Hui-Chi Hsu. “Emma Goldman, ‘Mother Earth’ and the Anarchist Awakening” [Book review].
• Pateman, Barry. Ruth Kinna “Kropotkin: Reviewing The Classical Anarchist Tradition” [Book review].
• Pateman, Barry. Some recent additions [Nov. 2024].
• Pateman, Barry. W. A. Gape Half A Million Tramps London: George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1936 [Review].
• Pateman, Barry. Worth a Second Look No. 1. Joseph Lane: An Anti-Statist Communist Manifesto. London: Joseph Lane, 1887.
• Pateman, Barry. “An Affirmation of that for which I have fought.”[1].
• Pateman, Barry. “Nameless in the crowd of nameless ones…” : Some thoughts on The Story of A Proletarian Life, by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1923.
• Patten, John. Emma Goldman : a documentary history of the American years, Volume 1, Made for America, 1890-1901. Edited by Candace Falk, Barry Pateman and Jessica Moran [Review].
• Patten, John. Librarian as cultural hero: Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky of the National Yiddish Book Center [Review].
• Patten, John. More than they could chew [Review of The Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy].
• Patten, John. The Poetics of Anarchy: David Edelshtat's Revolutionary Poetry by Ori Kritz [Review].
• Patten, John. Portrait of the artist as a wanted man: Philip Ruff’s search for Peter the Painter.
• Patten, John. Working Class History : The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson and Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global by Paul Mason [Review].
• Petard, Paul. Not forgotten, then or now. Review: book of [Russian anarchist] prisoner support bulletins keeps their memory alive.
• Pietro Di Paola: The Knights-Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora 1880-1917 (Liverpool University Press, 2013).
• Poole, Dave. Malatesta, Life and Ideas, edited by Vernon Richards, Freedom Press [Review].
• Poole, Dave. Prison Letters of Ricardo Flores Magon to Lilly Sarnoff [Review].
• Preston, Paul. Unknown Heroes: biographies of anarchist resistance fighters by Miguel Garcia [Review].
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman, annotated and introduced by Jessica Moran and Barry Pateman [Book review].
• R., Mark. A ‘good example’: A Life For Anarchy: A Stuart Christie Reader [Book review].
• Read, Herbert. Books: The Russian Terror [Review of The Guillotine at Work].
• Rebellious Spirit: Maria Occhipinti & the Ragusa Anti-Draft Revolt of 1945 [Review].
• Record, Marc. Solidarity and Silence: the story of Ona Šimaitė, librarian lifesaver [Review].
• The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón by Claudio Lomnitz [Book review].
• Revolution and the State: Anarchism and the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Danny Evans [Review].
• Revolution in Spain. Review of: The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, Volume 1 by José Peirats Valls.
• Rise and Fall of the FAI [Review of We, the anarchists! A study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937].
• Rodríguez Suárez, Joaquín. Franco me hizo terrorista (Memorias del anarquista que intentó matar al dictador) by Stuart Christie Ediciones Temas de Hoy, S.A. Colección Historia Viva. Reviewed by Joaquín Rodríguez Suárez (Inspector of Prisons in Franco’s General Directorate of Prisons, DGP).
• The Role of the Anarchists in the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921: A Case Study in Conspiratorial Party Behavior during Revolution. John W. Copp. Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1992. [R.
• A Romp Through Anarchism [Review of Facing the Enemy by Alexandre Skirda].
• Ruff, Philip. Book Review – The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid, 1923-1931 (KSL/ABSC, 2010).
• Ruff, Philip. Hermanos! by William Herrick [Review].
• The Russian anarchist movement in North America by Lazar Lipotkin [review].
• Salvador Puig Antich & the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación [Review].
• Sargent, Lyman Tower. A Novel of the General Strike [Book Review].
• Shaw, Rick. Mini-reviews: Biographies.
• Shipway, Mark. Anton Pannekoek, Workers' Councils and For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton [Review].
• Shrapnel, Coco. War And Peace by Proudhon [Book Review].
• Siberian Makhnovshchina : Siberian Anarchists in the Russian Civil War (1918-1924) by Igor Podshivalov [Book Review].
• The slow burning fuse: the lost history of the British anarchists [Book review].
• Some thoughts on Alexander Berkman.
• Something should be done (or How to revolt) [book review].
• The Sons of Night by Antoine Gimenez and the Giménologues [Book review].
• Spreading the Word [Review:] John T. Caldwell, With Fate Conspire: memoirs of a Glasgow seafarer and anarchist..
• Stanley, Gwen. The Iron Column: testament of a revolutionary by Elias Manzanera [Review].
• Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist" by Stuart Christie [Review].
• The Story of the Iron Column [Book Review].
• Stott, Paul. City Of Quartz by Mike Davis [Review].
• Stronacchi, Guy de. Zapata of Mexico - a review.
• The Struggle Against The State And Other Essays by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda [Review].
• A Summer in the Park by Tony Allen [Review].
• Szarapow, -. Revolutionary thought in Russia, 19th-early 20th century: An encyclopaedia [Book review].
• Szarapow, -. "The Authority That Organises Terror" [Review of 'Procherk' ('A Stroke of the Pen') by Lydia Chukovskaya].
• Thoughts on ‘What everyone should know about state repression’ by Victor Serge.
• Three Japanese Anarchists : Kotoku, Osugi and Yamaga by Victor Garcia [Review].
• Toscano, Joseph. You Anarchist, You by Ernestan [Review] .
• A Treat to Read [Review of Anarchism, Séan M. Sheehan].
• The Trouble with National Action [Book Review].
• The Ukrainian Revolution (July-December 1918) by Nestor I. Makhno [Book Review].
• Valadas, Jorge. Review of Ready for Revolution, by Jorge Valadas.
• Warren, Richard. The Albert Memorial: The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (2016 edition) [Book review].
• Warren, Richard. Graphic dreams of Utopia [Book review of The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia].
• Warren, Richard. A living book : 'A Life For Anarchy: A Stuart Christie Reader' [book review].
• Warren, Richard. Prisoner 155: Simón Radowitzky by Agustín Comotto [Book review].
• A Wee Black Booke of Belfast Anarchism and Down with the Fences! Battles for Commons in South London [Review].
• Cohen, Naomi, Robert P. Helms and Chaim Leib Weinberg. Review of Forty Years in the Struggle: The Memoirs of A Jewish Anarchist, translated by Naomi Cohen, edited and annotated by Robert P. Helms.
• What is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman [Review].
• Wisdom earned the hard way - "The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid" [Review].
• The Women Incendiaries [of the Paris Commune] by Edith Thomas [Review] .
• Woodcock, George. [Nestor Makhno: The Life of an Anarchist, by Victor Peters, Book review].
• Woodward, Alan. Chomsky on Anarchism ed. Barry Pateman [Review].
• Working Class Self Organisation, -. Review: The Albert memorial: the anarchist life and times of Albert Meltzer (1920-1996) an appreciation by Phil Ruff.
• Young Rebels against the Empire: the youth memoirs of Nestor Makhno & Voldemar Antoni [Book Review].