Library update [March 2026]

New treasures on the website:

Spain

José Peirats Why I Was Expelled From the CNT https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/nvx2tk  

Imanol Some of the Libertarian Guerrilla Bands Operating in the Cádiz-To-Málaga Area https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/9kd6zc 

Agustín Guillamón In Opposition to the Historiographer’s Dismissal of ‘Homage to Catalonia’ https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/r4xk66 
and Rewriting Civil War-Time Cerdana : A Critical Comparison of Pous/Solé and Gascón/Guillamón https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/z34x3t 

Maruja Lara, militia-woman with the Maroto Column https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/qrfmhn  

Miners’ Strike: Texts from 1984-85

Syndicalism rediscovered /
Civil War in the Coalfields: Coal Convoys Preparing to Outflank Pickets; Government Intends to Bankrupt NUM /
Editorial on resistance in the mining communities [1985] /
[Report on return to work at Kellingly Colliery]
All via https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/93207x 

Lives

Frank Fernández (1932-2026) Historian of Cuban Anarchism, Libertarian Activist and Exiled Intellectual by Daniel Pinós https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/rxwgnh 

A Few Words About Martial Desmoulins

Pierre Célestin LENTENGRE, aka Pierre LENTENTE by Jean Maitron updated by Rolf Dupuy https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/prr759  

Deborah and Sam Frydman portraits and biographies by Anatoly Dubovik are available at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/5qfvsc and https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/mcvg5r (See Dubovik’s bios of her siblings Fanya and Yanish Yankel via https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/f1vjb1). 

George Cores

The text of his pamphlet Personal Recollections of the Anarchist Past is now up: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vq84bd 
Growth of the Modern Anarchist Movement in Great Britain https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/x69rr3 
A Glimpse of Life on New Earth, Year 2040 https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/ht78pf 

Digitised

Anarchist Communism Second Edition 1895 by Peter Kropotkin www.katesharpleylibrary.net/jwswz4  
Anarchism In the May Movement, France ’68 by Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/qnkcmd 

Christiebooks (website rescue) [gradual] 

https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/25494r  

Our ‘feathered friends’

Our comrades at the Sparrows’ Nest in Nottingham plan to get to grips with posters in 2026. They ask for donations to support their work and, in particular, help cover rent for storage space. Pictures and details at https://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/index.php/14-news-and-events/289-nest-update-feb-2026 

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