April 2026 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online

KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 120, April 2026 has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/c2fszv. The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/gqnnfr

Contents
A Very Interesting Letter [Marie Le Compte on flags, Louise Michel, translating Bakunin and Jo Labadie] "What can it be, though, but to hang out the black flag of starvation and – if they are very daring – the red flag of revolt, and have them both cut down by the police in five minutes" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/7sqx7x

Looking for Marie Le Compte "Le Compte made a mark as a speaker, journalist and translator and operated in various radical networks (socialist, anarchist, Irish nationalist, Russian Nihilist). [...] At one time she was a key figure in anarchist networks. Without an obituary the end of her story remains a mystery." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/qbznsw

New books on ‘punk spaces’ by Prank Sinatra with a cartoon by Richard Warren (Nick Soulsby on Centro Iberico, David Insurrection on anarcho-punk in London and Bradford’s 1 in 12 Club.) https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/jm664x

Tony Grogan by Matt Hannam "Tony was a huge influence on many of us who got to know him through our involvement with the 1 in 12 which he described as 'family aside, the most important thing in his life.'" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/0gb7bp

Matt Sollitt (1840-1915) by Nick Heath "Rocker says that ‘he had a gift of expressing himself clearly and briefly. His great fault was his quick temper. He always got furious when his opponent in an argument wandered away from his subject or didn’t follow his point logically. He was a first-class lecturer. If his audience showed any grasp of the subject he would develop it in a masterly way, like a trained university professor. But if his temper was roused he was a fighter. He was a stormy petrel.’" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/wwq1xn

Leeds Anarchist History "Shaun Cohen from the Ford Maguire Society has written an essay looking at the early history of anarchism in Leeds (to the 1920s)" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/cz8zbq

Cologne FAU hosted miners kids from Blyth by Ralph Aurand "It has been completely forgotten that the Cologne local federation of the anarcho-syndicalist FAU in October 84 invited 21 miners’ kids from Bates colliery (Blyth) led by Ronnie Campbell, then president of the local NUM and later MP and his wife Deidre, for a fortnight’s holiday in Cologne and the countryside near by." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/31zfhf

Library update [March 2026] "New treasures on the website" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vx0nmf