Kate Sharpley Library

London anarchist Albert Meltzer was a longstanding critic of non-revolutionary and ‘intellectual’ trends described as ‘new anarchism’ or ‘militant liberalism’ (depending on your point of view). Part of this was his conflict with the Canadian writer George Woodcock. I want to examine that conflict and when and how it arose in particular.

This pamphlet shows the history of Mayday, and the differing ways in which Anarchists have responded…

Formed in June 1905 at a Chicago conference, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) immediately set out to break up the existing American labour landscape.

In March 2019 it’s a hundred years since the death of David Nicoll, anarchist speaker, writer, editor, poet and activist.

A review of Rob Ray's 2018 history of Freedom Press taken from KSL: the Bulletin of the Kate…

Review of a 2018 book telling the story behind the Siege of Sidney Street, and telling the story of…

Review of the annotated and expanded edition of Berkman's classic Prison Memoirs,…

Information about nine anarchist members of the Tallion anti-Franco resistance group who were…

In October 2003 the Latvian press carried a number of articles about the Latvian anarchist Janis…

Sam Dolgoff was an American anarchist and wobbly (member of the Industrial Workers of the World). He…

An outline of the social revolution which exploded at the start of the Spanish Civil War, touching on how it happened and how it was crushed, as well as its significance for anarchists.

Thoughts on Mat Kavanagh's writing, what he's trying to do with it and what it means for anarchist history