Anarchist History roundup July 2024

The Summer 2024 Black Flag Anarchist Review is out https://www.blackflag.org.uk/

Includes gems ‘John Turner, anarchist union leader’ by Barry Pateman and ‘The “Trial of the Thirty”, the failed trial of anarchy’ by Constance Bantman. 

For Stuart This August will be the fourth anniversary of the death of our friend and comrade Stuart Christie. We have just posted the Introduction to A Life For Anarchy: A Stuart Christie Reader https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/5tb4dg

The Transmetropolitan Review is always worth a look. ‘Reading a century-old anarchist newspaper, the last thing I expected to do was laugh, but as I read Why?, I laughed my ass off more than once.’
https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2024/05/27/why-a-tacoma-anarchist-newspaper/

Anarchist Red Cross: ‘An Ephemeral Look at Russian Anarchist Life in the United States’ https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/article/930372  tells a story from one anarchist postcard (paywalled). 

Behind the Bars, Published by the Anarchist Red Cross Society, New York, January 1924 is now online https://archive.org/details/behindbarsissue

AK Press have just published The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America : A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences by Joseph Cohen. Originally published in Yiddish in 1945, it was translated by Esther Dolgoff in the late seventies. Editor Kenyon Zimmer explains how it was finally published and, pointing out ‘Today even most experts in anarchist history would be at a loss to identify most of the people Cohen references’, gives a heroic number of footnotes as ‘starting points for future researchers’.
https://www.akpress.org/the-jewish-anarchist-movement-in-america.html

We keep scanning ephemeral treasures. You might like to check out ‘An Englishman’s Home’ and leaflets by Ted Leggatt and John Lowden Macartney https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/9320sp