anarchist archives

To mark the 140th anniversary of the first issue of Freedom, pdf scans of all issues of the newspaper published between October 1886 and November-December 1927 are now available on-line:

https://anarchistfaq.org/freedom/

From Kate Sharpley Library

Our comrade Barry Pateman died in hospital on Tuesday 22 September 2026 after a short illness. Barry supported many other projects from the Anarchist Black Cross to the Alexander Berkman Social Club but he was at the heart of the Kate Sharpley Library for 35 years. He described himself as an ‘awkward pupil’ of anarchist history but he helped to keep it alive and made it accessible to people from new generations. We are already missing him. A longer tribute will follow. We send love to his friends, family, and comrades.

From The Sparrows' Nest Library & Archive

Hello everyone! We hope this finds you all well... We now have reorganised our poster collection. They are now stored flat in acid-free card folders rather than in carboard rolls, so they can be stored and viewed causing less damage. They have the following categories: British Anarchism (Message, Bookfairs, Local Groups, Anarchist Federation, Class War), European Anarchism (by country), Activism in the Americas, Anarchist Internationals (International of Anarchist Federations, CNT), Peace and Ecology, Radical History, LGBTQ+ Arts and Activism, Race, Gender, Internationalism, Intersectionalism.

From FICEDL

Bologna · international meeting of the libertarian archives

Dear comrades, riding the wave of enthusiasm following the success of the BOAB – Bologna Anarchist Bookfair in September 2025, we have decided to try and breathe new life into another event that has not taken place for the past ten years. We are therefore delighted to invite you to an international meeting of the anarchist archives of the FICEDL network, the International Federation of Anarchist Documentation and Study Centres (ficedl.info).

From Dark Nights by Dark Nights & co

When we speak, it should be clear, to show reality and not to obscure it and/or reduce it to a spectacle.

We issue a warning about suspicious, manipulative and reckless individual(s) behind the “FAI ARCHIVE” – just set up by the “No War But My War” blog and Instagram, who have been trying to contact admins and sites in the international counter-information networks and anti-repression solidarity groups in a duplicitous way and spreading misinformations and smears. We note that FAI/FRI* has been recently designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by the American administration for which they also target “Antifa Ost“, etc, as part of a hyped and aggressive move against domestic and foreign radical-left and anti-state anarchist movements and tendencies of all sorts, including single-issue unrelated subjects to anarchism.

From Libertarian Labyrinth

After the month-long interruption in April, I’m finally settling down to work on the chronological review of Proudhon’s work that I have mentioned recently — which is also the process that will produce some print-on-demand volumes for A New Proudhon Library. I’ve been working without my usual daily quotas and deadlines, for the first time in over three years, and spending a lot of time thinking — no doubt sometimes over-thinking — about the translation strategies I began to develop a decade ago, while puttering away at Proudhon’s journalism and correspondence.

From YouTube by Firelake Media

Did you know that the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has the largest collection of anarchist ephemera in the United States? It also has the oldest collection of radical literature in the United States. This assortment of literature and ephemera is called The Labadie Collection, and is on the sixth floor of the Harlan Hatcher Library. It is named after a Detroit anarchist named Jo Labadie who lived from 1850-1933. Ever the pack rat and collector of radical material, Labadie donated twenty crates of goods from his attic to the University of Michigan in 1911. This small collection eventually exploded into taking up a whole floor at the U-M Graduate library, and it includes writings of the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. How has it lasted all these years? I talk with the librarian and curator of The Labadie Collection, Julie Herrada, to paint a fuller picture of the story.

From Act for Freedom Now! - Germany

About the raids at the anarchist library Kalabalik and the widespread wave of repression in Berlin

Early in the morning of March 24, 2026, the time had come once again. The doors of 17 buildings in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, and Kyritz were kicked in by a squad of masked figures who descended upon the people sleeping there, or, as in our case, upon bookshelves and newspaper archives. Reason for the violent wake-up call by the Berlin LKA, this time, was an arson attack last September on the power supply to the Adlershof Technology Park, which resulted in a widespread blackout. They’re looking for evidence to finally prove all the mental acrobatics of the investigation team “Spannung” [tension] to back up their hallucinated theories. This is at least what can be inferred from the search warrant presented, which was approved by enforcement judge Jacob. The places targeted were Infoladen Scherer8, L5 Späti, and several private apartments, and, as has happened several times in the past, the Anarchist Library Kalabalik in Kreuzberg.

From The Michigan Daily by Audrey Shabelski

About 150 Ann Arbor community members gathered at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Saturday evening to hear a discussion between Julie Herrada, the curator of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection, and Julie Ault, a writer and artist specializing in the retellings of history. They detailed their collaboration on the new exhibit, “American Sampler: Activating the Archive.”