August 2025 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin
From Kate Sharpley Library
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 118, August 2025 has just been posted on our site
From Kate Sharpley Library
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 118, August 2025 has just been posted on our site
From Kate Sharpley Library, Alice Smith, & Incline Press
We’re sad to report the death of Graham Moss (1947-2025). He learnt printing at Freedom Press in the 1960s and was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. His friend Nick Heath told us more.
From Kate Sharpley Library
July 2025
‘Decades in the Struggle’ is a project interviewing anarchist and anarchist-adjacent thinkers, writers, and activists (aged 60 and older, who are fluent in spoken English) in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and beyond. It’s being coordinated by Nathan Jun of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Thanks to friends and supporters of the Kate Sharpley Library we recently managed to acquire a fascinating collection of mainly British anarchist ephemera ranging from the 1890s to the 1920s. It consists of fliers advertising meetings, leaflets explaining anarchism and fliers in support of anarchists and others who are in the hands of the state. There is also a collection of cards that advertise public meetings or act as tickets bought to attend those meetings. There is more (songs, poetry, etc. etc.).
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
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 116, December 2024 has just been posted on our site
On the morning of November 11, 2024, Licia Rognini Pinelli left us. We will surely remember her great determination and extraordinary commitment throughout her life in the struggle for truth and justice – not only regarding the fate of her husband Pino Pinelli – that made her an outstanding figure in the history of twentieth-century Italy.
From Kate Sharpley Library
October 8, 2024
by Dreyfus
An Anarchist Communist perspective on the Miners' Strike 1984-85
I apologise to all and any for detail or names wronged in my recounting. I claim complete ownership of my pride in my involvement that period. What remains an enduring impact for me is the experience that class struggle changes people.
Thoughts on anarchist solidarity with the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85
2024 is the 40th anniversary of the start of the Miners Strike of 1984-85... I have been reading and thinking about the strike and anarchist solidarity actions with the miners. That anarchist solidarity seems less visible now. Diarmaid Kelliher says ‘It is necessary to be careful about using the support movement as a way of gleaning positives out of this history.’ That’s a valid warning against cherry picking stories ‘as compensation for a miserable present’. But do we have to resign ourselves to being written out of history?
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 114-115, August 2024 [Double issue] has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/m0cj0z
The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/c868p3