December 2025 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 119, December 2025 has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/hx3hjh. The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/ftth0nContents
The Bum on the Rods and the Bum on the Plush by W. E. Jones
"The bum on the rods is a social flea
That gets an occasional bite,
The bum on the plush is a social leech,
Blood-sucking by day and night"
With an illustration by Richard Warren and notes on how the poem passed into oral tradition. https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/0vt616
The Spanish revolution, its mistakes and potential corrections [1934] by Nestor Makhno "the Spanish people still has hopes of not succumbing to the bourgeoisie and reckons that it is quite capable of setting the course for the revolution by means of which it will be in a position to realize its centuries-old ambitions: to be free and independent of the bourgeoisie and any order it imposes." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/3n5w31
Dupuy, Rolf (1946-2025) by Nick Heath "I was shocked to hear news of the death of Rolf Dupuy two days after his death. Rolf was one of the founders of the French ORA, and later animator of the Dictionnaire International des Militants Anarchistes, a huge online resource in the French language, on biographies of libertarian militants around the world." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/2rbqq4
Death of Emilio Ceragioli, Glasgow 1945 by Frank Leech "He remained consistent and loyal to his Anarchist views to the end. We will miss his advice, encouragement, and his comradeship." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/x0k8tx
Half A Million Tramps "We’d like to put a scanned copy of Half a Million Tramps online for everyone to read freely. Are you a descendent of his? Can we have your permission to do so?" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/cz8z9j
Tom Brown, Tyneside syndicalist : a little more biographical info. "The 1939 national register records him (as ‘Thomas Brown’) living at 10 Torquay Street [London], that his date of birth was 01 Feb 1902; and that he was employed as ‘Aircraft Fitter Heavy Worker’." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/5hqdrt
Thoughts on anarchist libraries "inevitably there are more mentions of anarchist libraries than accounts of exactly what they were doing and why. I assume there’s a shared understanding of how they work. Which is not to say that they didn’t come in all shapes and sizes." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/w0vwjt
Jack Kielty by Dave Pude "I know that our movement has lost a truly proletarian character, breathing the old fighting atmosphere of the I.W.W. with a live, modernistic interpretation." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/fqz827
Library update [Dec 2025] Treasures / Biographies / Calendars https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/c2fsxp
A Note on the ‘Prehistory’ of the Kate Sharpley Library "We could call 1979-1982 our ‘prehistory’ when what would later be called the Kate Sharpley Library was coming together." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/v15h6j