Couriers union and Bash The Fash - donations please for online publishing

Pledged so far - £40

The Kate Sharpley Library has given us permission to put their excellent pamphlet The Couriers Are Revolting: A history of the Despatch Industry Workers Union, 1989-1992, which we have scanned, online. The DIWU was an attempt at a self-organised rank and file union, and the pamphlet helped inspire McDonalds Workers Resistance.

The KSL sells the pamphlet as well, and so it is possible that hosting it here could reduce its sales. It uses its income amongst other things to get more rare texts, translations and to look after its anarchist archive.

So we thought it would be a good idea to solicit for donations to thank KSL for its texts and possibly make up for any losses that could be incurred to help them carry on their valuable work.

Donations can be given direct to us via the details on our donate page ( http://libcom.org/notes/donate ) or you can email the KSL via their website www.katesharpleylibrary.net to get donation details direct to them - or buy a copy of the pamphlet. In any case if you are going to send them something please pledge it on here first, so we can see if online publishing with donations can be as viable as print publishing.

I will start the ball rolling personally with a tenner.

(This post isn't solicited by the KSL in any way, and they didn't say we had to give them money, we at libcom just thought it would be a good idea.)