KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 117, April 2025 has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/69pb54. The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/80gd1j
Contents:
The ‘Finest library on Anarchy’ : Georges Pilotelle, Columbia University and anarchist print culture "there are things listed that seem worth looking at like the ‘Volume of Italian and Spanish anarchist periodical issues’, ‘a collection of socialistic and anarchistic ballads and songs in French and German’ and ‘Anarchistic pamphlets and posters in French, English, German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish, 1883-1896’." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/wwq1v9
John Couzin – Seeker of Peace, Poet and Propagandist (1934-2025) by Stasia Rice "His big hearted love for everyone has left a deep impression upon us all and the memory of John Couzin’s own spirit of revolt will forever remain a source of inspiration in our lives." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/v15h46
Obituary: Umberto Tommasini (1896-1980) "At the age of 74, in 1970, he repulsed a fascist attack on the group’s premises, chasing several of the attackers into the streets and seeing off several others." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vx0nhx
Layabouts? by Albert Meltzer "The country is a “paradise for layabouts, crooks, gangsters and gamblers”. True, but we call them the Ruling Class.’" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/76hgm7
Piecing Together Anarchist History by Barry Pateman "Firstly, I think we should understand that fliers don’t just appear. They are often the result of careful thinking and planning and, of course, effort." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/q575vs
Library update (April 2025) [amongst other things] "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." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/66t392
The Police Computer Speaks by Richard Warren "this computer, being entirely logical, is infallible in its reasoning…" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/jh9z2q
Antoinette Cazal "Constance Bantman has just published a short piece on French anarchist Antoinette Cazal (1862-1902) who was acquitted in the ‘Trial of the Thirty’ (1894) and had ‘complicated romantic entanglements with Léon Ortiz’, who was convicted." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/s1rqjs
Library update (April 2025)
Scans
As well as the (ongoing) scans of anarchist ephemera, we have also scanned these Freedom Press pamphlets:
The Chicago Martyrs: Parsons; Spies, Fischer, Engel, Lingg, Fielden, Schwab and Neebe. Speech of August Spies (1897)
Organised vengeance, called ‘Justice’ (Kropotkin) with The superstition of government (Henry Glasse) (1902)
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.
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