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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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New additions to the Digital Library - September 2021

Please find a list of our latest additions to our digital collections below.

PAMPHLETS

118 Workshop - Annual Report 1988/89 - Resource and Research Centre for Trade Unions and Community Groups (Nottingham)

Anarchism Exposed! (Red Menace)

Chile - Ten Years On (DAM, 1983)

Class Bore - Rash the Bich

Finlayson, James: Urban Devastation - The Planning of Incarceration (Solidarity Pamphlet #02)

News from Everywhere (Autonomie Proletarienne, 1987)

Poetry of the Class War (ABC)

The relevance of Anarchism today (Freedom, 1960s?)

UAI Union Anarchica Italiana: An Anarchist Communist Program (KSL)

Union des traveilleurs communistes libertaires: Les conseils d'usines italiens (1920-1921) (Editions du Cercle)

Unwaged Fightback - A History of Islington Action Group of the Unwaged 1980-86 (Past Tense, 2011)

Van der Straeten, Serge; Daufouy, Philippe: Counter-Revolution in Ireland (Black & Red, 1974)

Virden, Phil: Words (inc)… - Social Science and the Knowledge Machine!!! (1977)

Visions of Freedom

Viva Voce: Some thoughts on Women's Health and Sexuality (Belladonna Press)

Vonnegut, Kurt: Fates Worse than Death (Spokesman)

Woodward, Alan: Ford Visteon Enfield Workers Occupation - An eyewitness account and first thoughts (Gorter Press, 2009)

Youth Section: Anarcho Punks On Hope (Now or Never)

Yugoslavery - Yugoslavia: Capitalism and Class Struggle 1918-1967 - Some Basic Ingredients of Yugoslav Ideology (BM Blob, 1991)

Zerzan, John: Creation and Its Enemies - The Revolt Against Work (Mutualist Books, 1977)

Zerzan, John; Zerzan, Paula: Industrialism and Domestication (BM Makhno, 1979)

JOURNALS, MAGS, ETC

Acid Stings #01

Black Eye - A Free Anarchist Paper #03 (Black Eye Collective, mid-1970s?)

Black Eye - A Somerset Solidarity Federation Occasional #05

Black Eye - An Anarchist Journal in the South West #03 (1993)

Citywise Special Supplement (1985)

Common Cause #04 (AF, 1990)

CRAG - Newsletter of Carrington Residents Action Group 1992/03

Kowtowtonone Vol:01 #01 (SolFed, 2008)

Kowtowtonone Vol:01 #02 (SolFed, 2008)

LAND - Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Against Nuclear Dumping Newsletter #10

Mayday - Magazine for anarchist/libertarian ideas and action #01

Mayday 2000 Bulletin - A Festival of Anti-Capitalist Ideas and Action #03 (2000)

Mayday 2000 Bulletin - A Festival of Anti-Capitalist Ideas and Action #04 (2000)

Mayday 2000 Bulletin - A Festival of Anti-Capitalist Ideas and Action #05 (2000)

Mayday 2000 Bulletin - A Festival of Anti-Capitalist Ideas and Action #06 (2000)

Nottingham CND Bulletin #?? 1984/06

Nottingham CND Bulletin #?? 1989/02

Nottingham CND Bulletin #?? 1989/06

Nottinghamshire Trade Union News 2011/Summer #03

Peoples Global Action Bulletin #05 (2000)

Positive Creed #01

Positive Creed #06

Practical Anarchy 1982/12 Merry Crisis

Propaganda - A Hardcore Punk Zine #03 (2004)

Punk Shocker - Dragging Humanity Forwards Since 1989! #11 (2004ish)

Red & Black Notes #01 (1997)

Red & Black Notes #02 (1997)

Red & Black Notes #03 - A Magazine of Socialist Discussion (1997)

Red & Black Notes #04 - A Magazine of Socialist Discussion (1998)

Red & Black Notes #05 - A Magazine of Socialist Discussion (1998)

Red & Black Notes #06 - Ideas and Discussion (1998)

Red & Black Notes #Supplement (1997)

Red and Black #15 (1986)

Regeneracion - Por una Sociedad Federalista y Autogestionaria Vol:82 #02

Resister - Anarchist Womens Paper 198?/?? #01(?)

Resister - Leeds Anarcha-Feminist Magazine 1988/05 #??

Reverse Order #07 (c1989)

Solidarity Bulletin Vol:01 #10 (Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, 2002)

The Red Menace #03 (1989)

The Red Menace #04 (1989)

The Red Menace #05 (1990)

The Scorcher #01 (1982)

The Scorcher #02 (1983)

The Scorcher #03 (1983)

The Underdog - Walthamstow's Monthly Shit-Stirring Rag #01 (2001)

The Underdog - Walthamstow's Rabble Rousing Rag #06 (2003)

The Underdog - Walthamstow's Rabble Rousing Rebel Rag #10 (2004)

The Underdog - Walthamstow's Rabble Rousing Rebel Rag #14 (2006)

The Underdog - Walthamstow's Rabble Rousing Rebel Rag #15 (2007)

The Vegan Self-Sufficiency Network Newsletter #19 (1985)

The Vegan Self-Sufficiency Network Newsletter #20 (1985)

The Vegan Self-Sufficiency Network Newsletter #21 (1986)

The Vegan Self-Sufficiency Network Newsletter #22 (1986)

The Vegan Self-Sufficiency Network Newsletter #23 (1986)

The Vegan Self-Sufficiency Network Newsletter #27 (1986)

The Yorkshire Anarchist #04 (1996)

The Yorkshire Anarchist #07 (1997) (Incomplete)

UK Resist #02 (1990)

Undercurrent #08

Unilever's World - CIS Anti Report #11

Up Against The Law #05

Vanguard - Journal of the Schools Action Union #08

Vegan Community Project Newsletter #01 (1987)

Voice of the Unions #?? 1970/12

Western Approaches - Bulletin of the South West Solidarity Federation-IWA #01 (2009ish)

Xtra! #01

You can't say no to hope #07

Zapatista News - Newsletter of the UK Zapatista Network #02 (2007) (Incomplete)

Zero #09

LEAFLETS & OTHER

Neither Washington Nor Hanoi (Freedom et al, 1968)

Nottingham Blockades Molesworth September 16th - Mobilisation Pack (1986)

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