December 2024 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 116, December 2024 has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/4qrh89. The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/79cqdz
Contents:
Salvador Puig Antich: verdict overturned."After years of campaigning by his sisters, the Spanish government overturned the verdict on the 16th October 2024."
Some recent additions by Barry Pateman "What it really should say is something like “some items that have just about made it to the catalogue – well nearly anyway!”"
Licia Pinelli (1928-2024) by the Centro Studi Libertari / Archivio G. Pinelli "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."
Anarchist Communist Memories of the Miners Strike [Pamphlet Review] "It’s good to have an anarchist communist view, and one from the potteries. Most importantly, this is history that means something: ‘What remains an enduring impact for me is the experience that class struggle changes people.'"
[The Freedom Press Library in 1979: Plans and problems] "That we do want to have a working anarchist library no one can surely doubt seeing that we have never stopped adding contemporary material to it. But what form should an anarchist library take? What purpose should it serve? Who are the kind of people we should seek to attract? Indeed what kind of material should it house? And how should the material be classified?"
Racism : knowing our enemies [1985] by Liverpool DAM "We must combat racism at all times. We know that NO-ONE is racially superior or more important. The real enemy are the bosses and their police."
Valerie Powels (1950-2011) "a Birmingham anarchist who wound up in Barcelona."
Remembering Kate Austin, Missouri anarchist & feminist "From the farm she shared with husband Sam in Missouri, Austin was an integral part of the anarchist movement and its press and took part in debates about anarchism, tactics, feminism and reproductive rights."
A Woman’s View of It by Kate Austin "If love is put in a cage, or fettered in any way, it is no longer love, but a ghastly nameless thing, that blasts the living and curses the unborn."
The Workers and the Strike by Kate Austin "No one need be discouraged over the war of contrary ideas, Agitation forces men to think; and human thought will in time kill government. But it is well to recognize all that the people must unlearn before they can question the all-powerful State. They, in common with their masters, consider property rights more sacred than life. As long as they do, they disarm themselves and arm their foes."
Library Notes Dec. 2024 (only a fraction of what won't fit)
A workman is sitting on a tram... by Bernabé García Polanco "A workman is sitting on a tram in the 1930s reading a copy of Solidaridad Obrera when a priest takes a seat opposite him."