Library update (April 2025)
Scans
As well as the (ongoing) scans of anarchist ephemera, we have also scanned these Freedom Press pamphlets:
The International Anarchist Congress, held at the Plancius Hall, Amsterdam, on August 26th-31st 1907
The Basis of Trade Unionism by Emile Pouget (1908)
Concentration of Capital : A Marxian Fallacy by W Tcherkesoff (1911)
England Monopolised or England Free? by William C. Owen (1920)
Anarchism and Democracy by John Wakeman (1920)
Objections to Anarchism by George Barrett (1921)
You can get to them via https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/bzkjs6.
Articles
We’ve put up several articles by William MacQueen, with a focus on propaganda and picnics:
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/d255cn
Update from Imanol: ‘A range of fresh information about Manuel Huet and the Underground in France’ https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/fxpqwr
British Miners’ Strike 1984-5 by Dino Marcone
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/wpzjwv
Three pieces by Albert Meltzer: ‘Chaim Weizmann and Israel’, ‘Author’s Apology : I couldn’t paint golden angels’ (explaining the title) and Anarchism: arguments for and against [2023 edition], plus obituaries of Albert by Sid Martell and Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (all via https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/0rxwm0 )
Workers’ Freedom Groups The Membership card with Basis and Programme, Workers’ Freedom Groups [March 1913] suggests all sorts of connections to follow up https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/n02xb9
Emma Goldman AK Press have published a new edition of Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays, with notes and introduction by Jessica Moran and Barry Pateman.
https://www.akpress.org/anarchism-and-other-essays.html
G.P. Maximoff is the subject of a chapter from Nikolai Gerasimov’s new book on Russian anarchism, Translated by Malcolm Archibald https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/18/the-adventures-of-g-p-maximoff/
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.