April 2025 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online

KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 117, April 2025 has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/69pb54. The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/80gd1j

Contents:
The ‘Finest library on Anarchy’ : Georges Pilotelle, Columbia University and anarchist print culture "there are things listed that seem worth looking at like the ‘Volume of Italian and Spanish anarchist periodical issues’, ‘a collection of socialistic and anarchistic ballads and songs in French and German’ and ‘Anarchistic pamphlets and posters in French, English, German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish, 1883-1896’." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/wwq1v9

John Couzin – Seeker of Peace, Poet and Propagandist (1934-2025) by Stasia Rice "His big hearted love for everyone has left a deep impression upon us all and the memory of John Couzin’s own spirit of revolt will forever remain a source of inspiration in our lives." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/v15h46

Obituary: Umberto Tommasini (1896-1980) "At the age of 74, in 1970, he repulsed a fascist attack on the group’s premises, chasing several of the attackers into the streets and seeing off several others." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vx0nhx

Layabouts? by Albert Meltzer "The country is a “paradise for layabouts, crooks, gangsters and gamblers”. True, but we call them the Ruling Class.’" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/76hgm7

Piecing Together Anarchist History by Barry Pateman "Firstly, I think we should understand that fliers don’t just appear. They are often the result of careful thinking and planning and, of course, effort." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/q575vs

Library update (April 2025) [amongst other things] "Cover price has increased for the first time since 1991, for the obvious reason. Still happy to get donations from people who like what we do." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/66t392

The Police Computer Speaks by Richard Warren "this computer, being entirely logical, is infallible in its reasoning…" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/jh9z2q

Antoinette Cazal "Constance Bantman has just published a short piece on French anarchist Antoinette Cazal (1862-1902) who was acquitted in the ‘Trial of the Thirty’ (1894) and had ‘complicated romantic entanglements with Léon Ortiz’, who was convicted." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/s1rqjs