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Based in Nottingham (UK), we look after tens of thousands of books, journals, pamphlets, zines, leaflets, posters and other items documenting the anarchist movement in the UK and beyond, as well as local radical history. Browse our catalogue, access digitised records in our free Digital Library and get in touch to arrange a visit.
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Pamphlets

Brandt, Nick: Re-Fuse - Further Dialectical Adventures Into The (Un)Known (BM Combustion, 1978)

Italy 1977-8 - Living with an Earthquake (Red Notes)

Italy 1980-1 - After Marx, Jail! - The Attempted Destruction of a Communist Movement (Red Notes)

Mortimer, Amanda (ed): Resistance (1987)

Pink is Red and White (Red Menace)

Quiet Rumours - An Anarcha-Feminist Anthology (Dark Star, 1976)

Rebel Violence V Hierarchical Violence - A Chronology of Anti-State Violence on the UK Mainland, July 1985-May 1986 (1986)

Red Rosia; Black Maria; Black Rose Anarcho-Feminists: Anarcho-Feminism - From Siren and Black Rose - Two Statements (Black Bear)

Reed, Evelyn: An Answer to "The Naked Ape" - And other books on aggression (Pathfinder Press, 1971)

Reeve, Gillian; Smith, Joan: Offence of the Realm - How Peace Campaigners Get Bugged (CND, 1986)

Reflections on J18… Seattle… Mayday… Prague… (Mayday 2000, 2001)

Rello, Mateo (et al): One Hundred Years of Workers' Solidarity - The History of Solidaridad Obrera (KSL, 2013)

Resistance Shall Grow - The story of the 'Spies for Peace' and why they are important for your future (ILP; LFA; Solidarity; SWF)

Revan, A: First Know Your Enemy - The Emancipation of the Working Class is the task of the Working Class Themselves Alone! (Spalt Collective, 1987)

Revolt in Socialist Yugoslavia - June, 1968 (Black & Red, 1973)

Revolutionary Trade-Unionism Today - Spain (Spanish Information Network; Syndicalist Bulletin, 1987)

Rich, Adrienne: Women and Honor - Notes on Lying (Onlywomen Press, 1979)

Richardson, Christopher: The Co-operative Movement in Greater Nottingham - A Journey Towards Political Representation (2007)

Rivista Anarchia: Red Years Black Years - Anarchist Resistance to Facism in Italy (ASP, 1989)

Roberts, Glyn: Questioning Development - Notes for volunteers and other concerned with the theory and practice of change (The Alver Press, 1981)

Roberts, Julian: Ideology and the University (Broadsheet Publications)

Roc, Leopold: Industrial Domestication (Wildwood)

Rocker, Rudolf: The Tragedy of Spain (FAS Freie Arbeiter Stimme, 1937)

Rodrigues, Edgar; Ramos, Renato; Samis, Alexandre: Against All Tyranny! - Essays on Anarchism in Brazil (KSL, 2003)

Romano, Paul; Stone, Ria: The American Worker (Bewick, 1972)

Rossa, Della: Why Watts Exploded - How the Ghetto fought back (Merit Publishers, 1969)

Rubin, Jerry: Money is Shit (Hobnail Press, 2004)

Ruehle, Otto: The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (Bratach Dubh, 1981)

Ruehle, Otto: The Revolution is not a Party Affair (Pirate Press)

Support the Reykjavik Nine - Against State Repression in Iceland

Thoughts about Community Support around Intimate Violence (Radical Practical Feminist Self-Defence, 2008)

Ullman, Ivan: Never Work (Reader's Indigestion, 1991)

Unions and Wildcats (Workers' Voice, 1974)

Yugoslavia - Part One - 1918-1967 (Red Menace, 1988)

Journals, Magazines, etc.

Black & Red #04 (1973)

Movement - No Borders Newsletter #01 (2009)

Movement - No Borders Newsletter #02 (2009)

Rabble-Rouser - Formerly Paper Tiger Vol:01 #01 (OAG Oxford Anarchist Group, 1981)

Radical #04 (The Idea Publishing House, 1974)

Radical #05 (The Idea Publishing House, 1974)

Radical #06 (The Idea Publishing House, 1975)

Radical Education #10 (1978)

Radical Hedgehog #09 (1987)

Radical Rumours 2010/Winter (Radical Routes)

Rage - Fresher's Edition #01 (2011)

Raisin Hell #23

Rancid-News #09 (2005)

Rank and File Teacher - A Paper of NUT Classroom Teachers - Magazine of Rank + File '83 1984/04

Rank and File Teacher - A Paper of NUT Classroom Teachers - Magazine of Rank + File '83 1985/??

Readers Digress - An Irregular Zine for the Irregular Mind #06

Real Overdose #28 (2003)

Rearguard Action - Taking the piss since 1996 #53 (2010)

Rearguard Action #63 (2011)

Rearguard Action #64 (2013)

Rearguard Action #65 (2014)

Rearguard Action #67 (2014)

Reason to Believe - DIY Hardcore Punkzine #10

Rebel #29

Rebel Worker 019 Vol:04 #01 (Anarcho-Syndicalist Network, 1985)

Rebel Worker 114 Vol:13 #05 (Anarcho-Syndicalist Network, 1994)

Red & Black Notes #16-17 (2003)

Red and Black - An Anarchist Journal #21 (1991)

Red and Black - Anarchist-Socialist Paper of the North-East #02 (1985)

Red and Black Revolution - A Magazine of Libertarian Communism #01 (1994)

Red and Black Revolution - A Magazine of Libertarian Communism #02 (1995)

Red and Black Revolution - A Magazine of Libertarian Communism #04 (1999)

Red and Black Revolution - A Magazine of Libertarian Communism #08 (2004)

Red and Black Revolution - A Magazine of Libertarian Communism #09 (2005)

Red and Black Revolution - A Magazine of Libertarian Communism #14 (2008)

Red Herring Vol:02 #03 (IMG, 1976)

Red-eye #01

Remains of a Caveman #01

Resist #??

Resist #??

Resistance - Autonomist and Anti-imperialist Magazine #15 (1991)

Resistance Bulletin of the Irish Anarchist Communist Federation #03 (AF/ACF, 1995)

Resistance News - Incorporating Counter Information #02 (1988)

Resister #09 (1987)

Resurgence - For the Radical Non-Violent Revolution Vol:01 #09 (1967)

Resurgence - For the Radical Non-Violent Revolution Vol:01 #10 (1967)

Resurgence - Journal of the Fourth World Vol:03 #02 (1970)

Resurgence - Journal of the Fourth World Vol:03 #04 (1970)

Resurgence Vol:01 #06 (1967)

Resurgence Vol:01 #08 (1967)

Resurgence Vol:01 #12 (1968)

Resurgence Vol:02 #01 (1968)

Resurgence Vol:02 #02 (1968)

Resurgence Vol:02 #08-09 (1969)

Rhifyn #02 (2012)

Riff Raff Poets #03 (1986)

Ripping Trash #13 (1997)

Ripping Trash #14 (1997)

Ripping Trash #21 (2003)

Rising Free - Derbys Revolutionary Paper #07 (1984)

Rising Free Reprint Vol:02 #01 (Rising Free, 1981)

Rising Free Reprint Vol:02 #02 (Rising Free, 1981)

Rough Music - Brighton's trouble makin' dirt diggin' monthly #23 (2010)

Rum Lad #03 (2007)

Rupture - Boil in the rag 2009/03

The Rag - Anarcha-Feminist Magazine #01 (2006)

The Rag - Anarcha-Feminist Magazine #02 (2007)

The Rag - Anarcha-Feminist Magazine #03 (2008)

The Rag - Anarcha-Feminist Magazine #04 (2009)

The Rag - Anarcha-Feminist Magazine #05 (2010)

The Rag - Anarcha-Feminist Magazine #06 (2011)

The Raw Edge #01 (EUWC Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre)

The Red Menace - A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter Vol:02 #01 (1977)

The Red Menace #01

The Red Menace #02

Other documents

Random Press (1986)

The Railways of Nottingham - An exhibition covering 130 years, 1839-1969 (The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society)

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