August 2024 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online

KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 114-115, August 2024 [Double issue] has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/m0cj0z The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/c868p3

Contents:
Invisible or just underrated? "I think the anarchist disinterest in recruiting and self-promotion (certainly compared to the ‘revolutionary parties’ of the left), coupled with their involvement with the grassroots action partly explains why their actions are now less visible." Thoughts on anarchist solidarity with the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/6q58vk

Kate Sharpley: what do we know? "Is ‘Kate Sharpley’s story’ just that, a story? It’s possible, but what would it change?" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/612m75

Louise Bolotin 1961-2022 "At her funeral, it was said “she never put up with anything just because convention dictated that she should”." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/qnkcdc

Giuseppe Pinelli, Anarchist by Sergio Falcone "The figure of Pinelli has come to symbolize opposition to the established order in general and police powers in particular." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/kkwk6t

Political Violence and Liberty : Stuart Christie on The German Guerilla "We already know that, however lofty the motive, power corrupts. Secrecy and violence are its two most important ingredients." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/k0p4pn

1926: The Watershed of Class History by Albert Meltzer "We neglect at our peril the old syndicalist traditions which existed within the British working class movement before 1926." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/1zct58

Elena Melli Tribute [1946] "Young, sturdy and daring, she could be seen in the years after the first war in the front ranks in street demonstrations, imbued with an ardent belief that made her heedless of danger." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/d7wp0b

Anarchist History roundup July 2024 https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/rjdhvg

Calverton Colliery [Picketing report, 1984] "women on picket lines have been virtually ignored, although many have been on the ‘Front Line’ since day one of the strike." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/76hggj

Miners - the latest [Report on on visit to Nottinghamshire, 1984] "Also, on the picket line we were not allowed to shout ‘scab’ or swear, unless we wanted to get arrested. The scabs were instead called ‘little monkeys’ and ‘bounders’ (!)." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/wwq0v5

Whose Strike? "This isn’t Arthur Scargill’s war. This is a fight by the miners and their families to protect their livelihoods and communities. And its also a fight for all the working class." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/dncmps

Kinnochio speaks and his nose starts to grow "At long last there are signs that a large number of miners are thoroughly sickened with the behaviour of the TUC and Labour Party scabs – and may be able to make the first real break of a significant section of the British working class from its ‘own’ supposed party." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/mw6pbh

More Hell Raisers Needed "Police sealed off Hatfield Main Colliery entrance and fought off attempts to stop scabs by a mass picket organised locally. Local NUM organiser, Dave Douglass was snatched by the police, but the pickets retaliated. Media coverage was nil." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/4tmr4c

London, England [Letter about anarchist actions in support of the miners strike; bulletin contents] "We in the Direct Action Movement were pretty active with the miners’ strike, collecting funds, helping on picket lines, etc. Consequently anarcho-syndicalism (anarchism) got a good name with the miners who were sick of the so-called “Left” who only pushed their particular brand of “bossism.”" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/sn050s

Was the Miners Strike winnable? "Even in their hour of defeat the miners showed more courage and solidarity than the whole trade union and organised labour movement in Britain has been able to muster since its inception." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/rr50mw

Out of the shadows: two comrades of Ponzán Vidal [Book Review] "Spanish anarchists played a key role in the WW2 escape lines, getting escaped servicemen (and others) out of Nazi-occupied Europe. Two new biographies shed extra light on this." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/8pk2fx