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This month, we have added yet another stash of documents, including another lot of Nottingham Voice issues from 1977 and 1978, some of the earliest Counter Information issues published during the 1984-5 Miners' Strike, a few more issues of Anarchy (including some of the 2nd series), and a bunch of pamphlets, including the brilliant A Night to Remember.

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Nottingham Voice #53 (1976)
Nottingham Voice #54 (1976)
Nottingham Voice #55 (1976)
Nottingham Voice #56 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #57 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #58 - Supplement (1977)
Nottingham Voice #58 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #59 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #60 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #61 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #62 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #63 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #64 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #65 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #66 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #67 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #68 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #69 (1977)
Nottingham Voice #70 (1977)

Counter Information #01 (1984)
Counter Information #02 (1984)
Counter Information #03 (1984)
Counter Information #04 (1984)
Counter Information #04 - Supplement (1984)

Anarchy #055
Anarchy #011
Anarchy #020
Anarchy #028

No War but the Class War - Libertarian Anti-militarism Then and Now
The Economics of Freedom - An anarcho-syndicalist alternative to capitalism
The Creative Writings of an Anarchist
Los Manos - The Lads from Aragon, The Story of an Anti-Franco Action Group
The Anarchist Resistance to Franco - Biographical notes
Dare to Be a Daniel! A History of One of Britain's Earliest Syndicalist Unions. The life and struggles of an agitator and the fight to free the catering slaves of the West End of London (1910-1914)
Milly Witkop-Rocker
Direct Action
Neighbourhood Councils and Modern Technology
Unions against the working class
What Policy for Revolutionists - Marxism or Ultra-Leftism?
A Night to Remember

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