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PAMPHLETS

Aldred, Guy: Historical and Traditional Christianity (Strickland Press, 1940)

Aldred, Guy: Peace Now - And For Ever - 1918-194- (Strickland Press, 1945)

Aldred, Guy: Socialism and Parliament - Part 1 - Socialism or Parliament - The Burning Question of Today (Strickland Press, 1942)

Aldred, Guy: Socialism and Parliament - Part 2 - Socialism or Parliament - The Burning Question of Today (Strickland Press, 1942)

Aldred, Guy: Studies in Communism (Strickland Press, 1940)

Aldred, Guy: The Rebel And His Disciples (Strickland Press, 1940)

Anti-mass methods of organisation for collectives (Shrinking Publications)

Arms Conversion - Forward Planning for Jobs (TUCND)

BIRA Rule Book - Constitution of the British & Ireland Regional Administration of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, 2011)

Carthey, Bretta; Potter, Bob: Mt Isa - The Great Queensland Strike (Solidarity Pamphlets #22, 1966)

Conspiracy of Silence - Chemical & Biological Warfare Today (Committee of 100, 1965)

Conspiracy of Silence - The facts about germ & gas warfare (Committee of 100)

Czechoslovakia - Revolution and Counter Revolution (News & Letters Committees, 1968)

Dauve, Gilles: When Insurrections Die (Antagonism Press)

De Leon, Daniel: As To Politics (New York Labour News, 1966)

De Leon, Daniel: Reform Or Revolution (New York Labour News, 1965)

De Leon, Daniel: Socialism versus Anarchism (New York Labour News, 1970)

Everett, Martyn; Turner, Julian; Otter, Laurens: Agitator

Freedom - Is it a Crime? - The Strange Case of the Three Anarchists Jailed at the Old Bailey, April 1945 - Two Speeches by Herbert Read (Freedom, 1945)

Gambone, Larry: Syndicalism - In Myth and Reality (Red Lion Press, 1995)

Gambone, Larry: The Impossibilists - Selections from the press of the Socialist Party of Canada and the One Big Union 1906-1938 (Red Lion Press, 1995)

Gambone, Larry: The Libertarian Movement in Chile - Mutualism and Anarcho-syndicalism from 1840 to the Present (Red Lion Press, 1997)

Gambone, Larry: The Road to Fascism - The Rise of Italian Fascism and its Relation to Anarchism, Syndicalism and Socialism (Red Lion Press, 2000)

Gambone, Larry: What is Populism (Red Lion Press, 1995)

Gregory, R G: The Grove - Ring Your Own Bloody Bell

Heelas, Terence: Balance of Risks - Communism or Nuclear War (CND)

Homeless! - Half-Way House Tenants Speak Out (Solidarity Pamphlets #12)

How Many Issues? (1963)

Huggon, Jim: Poems (Kropotkin's Lighthouse Publications, 1970)

Inside Story - A report submitted by a group of ex-prisoners to the Prison Commission... (1962)

John, Wayne: Christianarchy - A Primer in Christian Anarchism

Kropotkin, Peter: The place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution (Shrinking Publications)

Mail Interception & Telephone Tapping in Britain (Hampstead Group, Committee of 100)

Mann, Andrew: The Squatters… - Ilford - A Report and Critique (Solidarity South London, 1969)

Meulen, Henry: Individualist Anarchism (Strickland Press, 1949)

Moyse, Arthur: More in Sorrow (Kropotkin's Lighthouse Publications)

Muste, A J: Pacifism and Class War (1988)

Otter, Laurens: Anarchist Revolutionary Organisation and Press - A case against an ORA paper - Discussion document

Otter, Laurens: October Revolution - Alternative Analyses

Otter, Laurens: Syndicalism (Anarchist Arguments #01)

Perkins, Theo P: Political Duty - A Confession of Skepticism (The Owl Press)

Petersen, Arnold: From Reform to Bayonets (New York Labour News, 1964)

Petty, G; Lennard C; Malvern: Fzzzz (CND, 1990)

Portugal 1970 - Capitalist Strategy, Workers’ Offensive and Colonial War (1970)

Potter, Bob: Vietnam (Solidarity Pamphlets #20)

Reclus, Elisee: On Vegetarianism

Revolt - Syndicalist Revolt

ROF Burghfield - A Nuclear Weapons Factory - As seen by the Burghfield Peace Camp (1983)

Sanity or Suicide - Questions and Answers about the threat of nuclear war and what we can do about it (CND)

Some Notes on Aims and Perspectives and A Discussion of the Economics of Autonomy

Southall, Tony; Atkinson, Julian: CND 1958-65 - Lessons of the First Wave

Spartakism to National Bolshevism - The KPD 1918-24 (Solidarity Pamphlets Aberdeen, 1970)

Stalin didn't fall from the Moon! (WSM, 1997)

The Agitator - Directory of Autonomus, Non-Hierarchical groups, Centres, Bookshops & such like (2000)

The Civil Defence Fraud - The Case of Andy Anderson - His Fight against Dartford RDC (Solidarity Pamphlets #09)

The Japan Kibbutz Association: Collectives in Japan (1969)

The Two O'Clock Knock Now Comes At Three - How democratic was Russia's 'democratic' coup? (Syndicalist Bulletin, 1993)

The Voice of Syndicalism - For Absolute Direct Workers' Control (SWF)

The War Resisters' International

Two Lies that Shook the World - The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - The Nationalisation of Women (KSL)

United States - Class Struggle and the GM Strike (1971)

Walter, Nicholas: Nonviolent Resistance (Committee of 100, 1963)

Walter, Nicholas: The RSGs 1919-1963 (Solidarity Pamphlets #15)

West, Jill: 'Thugs & Wreckers' - The case of the LSE and the future of Postsecondary Education (Mayday Manifesto, 1969)

Women-reclaim Greenham! (CND, 1983)

Woodcock, George: Anarchy or Chaos (Freedom, 1944)

JOURNALS, MAGS, ETC

An Solas #14 (Irish Workers Group, 1966)

Anarch #??

Anarchist Yearbook 1999 (Phoenix Press)

Anarchist Youth - Formerly Anarchist Student Vol:01 #03

Anti-Nuclear Network News #23 (1991)

CBA Internal Bulletin #01 (1976)

Chain Reaction 1987/07 (Telford Anti Nuclear Group)

Chain Reaction 1988/10 (Telford Anti Nuclear Group)

Chain Reaction 1989/03 (Telford Anti Nuclear Group)

Chain Reaction 1989/04 (Telford Anti Nuclear Group)

Chain Reaction 1989/06 (Telford Anti Nuclear Group)

Chain Reaction 1989/07 (Telford Anti Nuclear Group)

Chain Reaction 1989/08-09 (Telford Anti Nuclear Group)

Class Voice Vol:01 #02

Communist Bulletin #14 (1989)

Confrontation #02 (1968)

Confrontation #03 (1968)

Copenhurst Snowball Newletter #03

Direct Action (NECNA) #86 (1968)

Green CND 1987/02-03

Hyde Park Socialist #18 (1972)

Impact #26 (1966)

Liberation - An Independent Monthly Vol:07 #04 (1962)

Libertarian #01 (Libertarian Society at Sydney University, 1957)

Libertarian Womens' Network Newsheet #08

Minus One #14 (1966)

Minus One #21 (1968)

Minus One #22 (1968)

NAN Newsletter/Cock O' the North 2003/03 #03

NAN Newsletter/Cock O' the North 2003/08 #05

NAN Newsletter/Cock O' the North 2004/03 #06

NAN Newsletter/Cock O' the North 2004/10 #07

NAN Newsletter/Cock O' the North 2005/06-07 #08

One for Justice & Peace 1987/Winter

One for Justice & Peace 1988/Autumn

Organized Thoughts #09 (1994)

Reason 1964/04

Resistance Vol:?? #?? (Committee of 100, 1964)

Resistance Vol:03 #05 (Committee of 100, 1965)

Resistance Vol:03 #07 (Committee of 100, 1965)

Resistance Vol:03 #11 (Committee of 100, 1966)

Resister #10 (Bulletin of the Committee on South African War Resistance, 1980)

Shrewsbury Peace Group Newsletter 1986/04

Solidarity Vol:04 #05 (1967)

Syndicalist Bulletin ??

The Bulletin #10 (CND, 1963)

The Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review Vol:01 #05

The Peckham Ryoter #04

The Raven #04 (Freedom, 1988)

The Raven #05 (Freedom, 1988)

The Raven #06 (Freedom, 1988)

The Raven #07 (Freedom, 1989)

The Raven #08 (Freedom, 1989)

The Raven #09 (Freedom, 1990)

The Raven #10 (Freedom, 1990)

The Raven #11 (Freedom, 1990)

The Raven #12 (Freedom, 1990)

The Raven #13 (Freedom, 1991)

The Raven #14 (Freedom, 1991)

The Raven #15 (Freedom, 1991)

The Raven #16 (Freedom, 1991)

The Raven #17 (Freedom, 1992)

The Raven #18 (Freedom, 1992)

The Raven #19 (Freedom, 1992)

The Raven #20 (Freedom, 1992)

The Raven #21 (Freedom, 1993)

The Raven #22 (Freedom, 1993)

The Raven #23 (Freedom, 1993)

The Raven #24 (Freedom, 1993)

The Raven #25 (Freedom, 1994)

The Raven #26 (Freedom, 1994)

The Raven #27 (Freedom, 1994)

The Raven #28 (Freedom, 1994)

The Raven #29 (Freedom, 1995)

The Raven #30 (Freedom, 1995)

The Raven #31 (Freedom, 1995)

The Raven #32 (Freedom, 1995)

The Raven #33 (Freedom, 1995)

The Raven #34 (Freedom, 1997)

The Raven #36 (Freedom, 1997)

The Raven #38 (Freedom, 1998)

The Raven #39 (Freedom, 1999)

The Raven #40 (Freedom, 1999)

The Raven #41 (Freedom, 2001)

The Rebel Worker #06 (IWW, 1966)

The University Libertarian #02 (1957)

The University Libertarian #04 (1957)

Views & Comments #28 (Libertarian League, 1958)

Views & Comments #40 (Libertarian League, 1961)

Views & Comments #42 (Libertarian League, 1961)

Views & Comments #43 (Libertarian League, 1962)

Views & Comments #45 (Libertarian League, 1963)

Voices of North Devon #13 (1973)

Voices of North Devon #16 (1974)

War Resistance Vol:02 #02 (1962)

Workers' Fight #04 (1968)

Wrekin Anarchist Voice Vol:01 #01 (1972)

Wrekin Anarchist Voice Vol:01 #02

Wrekin Anarchist Voice Vol:01 #03

Yoyos/λoyos - Christian Anarchist Bulletin #??

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