August 2025 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online

KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 118, August 2025 has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/t1g3tw. The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/gf1xjz

Contents
What Anarchists Want [Leaflet] "Instead of loving violence, as we are accused, we hate it and are determined to abolish it, but we will not admit that any concession should be made to injustice." [We believe this dates to 1892/93] https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/p2njn8

Death of Octavio Alberola (1928-2025) by Agustín Comotto. "Octavio Alberola was a different sort, with a unique turn of mind and a commendable optimism about the human race." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/ksn258

Decades in the Struggle: Interviewing older anarchists. "a project interviewing anarchist and anarchist-adjacent thinkers, writers, and activists (aged 60 and older, who are fluent in spoken English) in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and beyond." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/hx3hg5

Malcolm Archibald: 50 years of Black Cat Press (interviewed by Sean Patterson) "When I became active in the anarchist movement in Canada in the 1970s, the anarchists were all poverty-stricken, trying to survive in minimum-wage jobs. The next generation was much better off and had a lot of money to throw around. Now, the current generation is back to being dirt poor again, lacking the resources to make an impact. But I think the prospects for the future are good". https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/1jwvk6

Anarchist César Orquín, Hero of Mauthausen by Guillem Llin Llopis. "On 13 December 1940 he arrived in Mauthausen as deportee No 805. As he spoke German, they made him an interpreter. It was then that he came up with a plan to save as many [Spanish] republican lives as he could." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/4b8jmz

Carl Nold by Otto Herman. "He came frequently to Chicago, and the first question he asked was always: ‘Do you have enough wine in your cellar?’ […] Comrade Carl Nold did not claim to be a hero, but he was a sincere fighter against capitalism and the State with its cruel political machinery." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/3bk57f

Man in the biscuit tin… "From 1933 to 1940 Marcus Graham edited Man! A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement for the International Group of San Francisco…" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/2bvs0h

Shadows In The Struggle For Equality [Book review]. "Hart builds on Yelensky’s work with a 70 page foreword discussing prison solidarity from the Anarchist Red Cross to today and a set of appendices filling out parts of the story to 1958". https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/547g18

Library update (Aug. 2025) [amongst other things] "Anyone read good historic accounts of what other anarchist libraries aimed to do?" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/hdr9v5

Graham Moss. "He learnt printing at Freedom Press in the 1960s and was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vq85qf