The Sparrows Nest

Ex Libris (The Masked Booksellers) are holding a charity book sale weekend in Carlton on the weekend of 4th and 5th September.

Follow the link above for details or Read More for the flyer.

This also gives us an opportunity to mention the very useful Groups page on the new Nottingham Indymedia site: http://notts.indymedia.org.uk/groups

which also features local pages for the Anarchist Federation and Peoples' Histreh amongst others.

At the recent Anarchist Bookfair in Sheffield we had the pleasure to meet Liverpool's News from Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop, on whose website you will the location of the shop (on Bold Street in Liverpool City Centre) browse a selection of the kind of books you'll find on their shelves, plus information about the shop, local links and local events. Plus, to search & browse 1.5 million books currently available to order, you can use their online order site www.newsfromnowhere.co.uk

Housmans at 5 Caledonian Road near Kings Cross station is one of the last remaining radical bookshops in London, not to mention Britain. Established in 1945, Housmans mission is to promote ideas of peace, human rights and a more equitable economy. The bookshop has been a hub of political activism for the past 65 years. But they could really do with your help if they are to continue this role.

At the moment, they really need support in helping promote their new webshop: http://www.shop.housmans.com/
The power of the internet allows Housmans to interact with those outside the London area. If supporters from around the country were to regularly buy a book from us it would really make a significant difference. Read on for Press Release.

Update: video on Guardian website on April 12th 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2010/apr/12/housmans-radical-bookshop

Big Flame was a socialist project in the 1970s & 80s which produced a series of themed papers which were influential on the libertarian left and anarchism alike. On the site http://bigflameuk.wordpress.com is an interesting account of the joining to Big Flame of the Libertarian Communist Group in 1980: http://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/libertarian-communist-group/
The site is comprehensive with the content of issues of Big Flame with reflection on each and promise of a forthcoming book.

If you want to see the real thing, a few copies of Big Flame and the LCG's paper Libertarian Communist can be found at the Sparrows' Nest.