Book reviews
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Action! Race War to Door Wars [Review].
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Admiral, -.
On the edge of life: Memories of an anarchist 1943-44 [Review].
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The Aesthetics of Anarchy : Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde by Nina Gourianova [Book review].
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The Albert Memorial: The Anarchist life and times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920 - 7 May 1996) [Review].
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Alcatraz - Uncle Sam’s Devil’s Island : experiences of a conscientious objector in America during the First World War [review].
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Alexander Berkman The Blast introduced by Barry Pateman [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Anarchist Voices. An Oral History of Anarchism in America by Paul Avrich [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
The Assassination Attempt on Franco from the Air: 1948 by Antonio Téllez [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
The Blast, edited by Alexander Berkman, Introduction by Barry Pateman [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz [Book review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Granny Made Me An Anarchist: General Franco, the Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Mayday and Anarchism. Remembrance and Resistance from Haymarket to now [A Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Nestor Makhno, Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 by Alexandre Skirda [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity by Dan Berger [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
Two new pamphlets from the Kate Sharpley Library [Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
What is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman [A Review].
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Alexander, Richard.
With The Poor People Of The Earth. A Biography of Doctor John Creaghe of Sheffield and Buenos Aires by Alan O'Toole [Review].
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Alexandre Skirda, Nestor Makhno - Anarchy's Cossack : The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine, 1917-1921 [Review].
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Anarchism & Violence : Severino Di Giovanni [Review].
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Anarchism: a documentary history of libertarian ideas, volume one, From anarchy to anarchism (300-1939) edited by Robert Graham [Review].
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Anarchism and Moral Philosophy [Book Review].
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Anarchism and Worker's Self Management in Revolutionary Spain By Frank Mintz [Book Review].
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Anarchism by Daniel Guérin, introduction by Noam Chomsky [Review].
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Anarchism for beginners by Marcos Mayer and Sanyu [Review].
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The Anarchist Expropriators by Osvaldo Bayer [Review].
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Anarchist Odyssey, or the Christie File expanded [Review].
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Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America Paul Avrich (AK Press, 2005) [Review].
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The Anarchists in London 1935-1955 : a Personal Memoir by Albert Meltzer [Review].
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Asare, Maira.
Facts against myths [Book review].
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At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism by Errico Malatesta [Review].
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Avrich, Paul.
The End of Anarchism? by Luigi Galleani [Book Review].
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Barker, John.
Anarchy in the UK, by Tom Vague [Review].
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Barker, John.
Johnny come home: a review.
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Barker, John.
Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day" [Review].
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Barnsley, Mark.
Bending The Bars - Prison Stories by John Barker [Review].
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Barnsley, Mark.
Berkman's Prison Memoirs [Review].
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Bash the Fash : Anti-fascist recollections 1984-93 by K. Bullstreet [Review].
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Bash the Fash Reviewed.
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Beating The Fascists Review.
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A beautiful idea: history of the Freedom Press anarchists by Rob Ray [Book review].
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Bending the Bars : Prison Stories by John Barker [A Review].
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Bone, Ian.
Beer And Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 by Tom Goyens [Review].
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Bone, Ian.
The Intransigents of the Iron Column [book review].
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Book review: Guerrilla José Moreno Salazar remembers.
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Books for cooks (and other workers).
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Bookunin, M.
Class War in Barcelona: "Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937" by Chris Ealham [Review].
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Bookunin, M.
Ghost dancers: the miners' last generation by David John Douglass [Book review].
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Bookunin, M.
Rabble rousers and merry pranksters : a history of anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s [Review].
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Brook, Stan.
Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham [Review].
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The Buenos Aires Tragedy: The Last Fight of Severino Di Giovanni and Paulo Scarfó [Review].
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Chanka, T.
Nestor Makhno Rides Again [Book review].
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Christie, Stuart.
Left, Right: The March of Political Extremism in Britain, by John Tomlison published by John Calder at £4.95 [Book review].
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Christie, Stuart.
Soldiers Of The Night: The Story of the French Resistance by David Schoenbrun [Review].
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Cohn, Jesse S.
Underground passages: anarchist resistance culture 1848-2011 by Jesse Cohn [Book review].
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Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons : Anarchism and the Specter of Bakunin in Twentieth-century Russia by James Goodwin [Book Review].
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Corral, Francisco and Katheryn Gallant.
Rafael Barrett, a brilliant anarchist misrepresented [Review].
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The Couriers are Revolting : The Despatch Industry Workers Union 1989-92 by Des Patchrider [Review Extracts].
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The De Luca Trilogy by Carlo Lucarelli [Review].
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The Death of Durruti by Joan Llarch.
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The death ship sails on [Review of "The Death Ship" by B. Traven].
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Disposition, Sonny.
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna [Book review].
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Dolgoff, Sam.
George Woodcock: a muddled history of anarchism [Book review].
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Dolgoff, Sam.
In The Struggle For Equality: The Story Of The Anarchist Red Cross by B. Yelensky [Review].
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The dossier of subject no.1218 : a Bulgarian anarchist’s story by Alexander Nakov [Review].
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Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz, translated by Chuck Morse, afterword by José Luis Gutierréz Molina [Review] .
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Emma Goldman: political thinking in the streets by Kathy Ferguson [Book review].
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Everett, Martyn.
For Workers' Power: the Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton [Review].
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ex-Liverpool AFA member, An.
Beating the Fascists – a view from the North.
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Facerías : Urban Guerrilla Warfare (1939-1957) ; The Libertarian Movement's Struggle Against Francoism in Spain and in Exile by Antonio Téllez Solà [Book Review].
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The Federación Uruguaya Anarquista: Crisis, armed struggle & dictatorship, 1967-85 [Review].
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Fighting For Ourselves: Anarcho-syndicalism and the Class Struggle by the Solidarity Federation [Book Review].
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The Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer : some thoughts.
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Flowers for the rebels who failed: Rebellion in Patagonia by Osvaldo Bayer [Book Review].
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Franks, Benjamin.
Ian Bone, Bash the Rich: True-life confessions of an Anarchist in the UK [Review].
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Free Society: A German exile in revolutionary Spain by Werner Droescher [Book Review].
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The French Anarchists in London 1880-1914 (Constance Bantman); The Knights Errant of Anarchy[1] (Pietro Di Paola) [Book Review].
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Futures by John Barker [Book review].
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Garcia Garcia, Miguel.
Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer [Book review].
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Garcia Guirao, Pedro.
Charlatan Stew, ed., News of the Spanish Revolution: Anti-authoritarian Perspectives on the Events [Book review].
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A Grand Cause: The hunger strike & the deportation of anarchists from Soviet Russia [Review].
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Granny made me an Anarchist, General Franco, the Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie [Review].
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Guillamón, Agustín.
Memoirs of a FAI Gunman and a Chronicle of Anarchist Barcelona [Book Review].
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H., Martin.
The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid [Review].
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Haymarket: A Novel by Martin Duberman [Review].
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Hendy, Mark.
The Princess Casamassima by Henry James [Review].
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A History of the French Anarchist Movement 1917 to 1945 by David Berry [Review].
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How to write a book review.
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I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels by Albert Meltzer [Review].
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In the eye of the beholder [Review, The Angry Brigade by Gordon Carr].
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Islands of Anarchy, Simian, Cienfuegos and Refract 1969-1987: An Annotated Bibliography [Review].
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Italian Anarchism, 1864-1892 by Nunzio Pernicone [Review].
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Jennings, Tom.
Chronicle of a Crash Foretold: Futures, by John Barker [A book review].
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KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 88, October 2016.
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La Nueve – 24 August 1944. The Spanish Republicans who liberated Paris by Evelyn Mesquida [Book review].
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Left of the Left: my memories of Sam Dolgoff [Book review].
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Library (book) news (October 2016).
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Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s experiments with revolution 1889-1900 by Davide Turcato [Book review].
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May '68 and its Afterlives [Review].
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Mayday and Anarchism: Remembrance and Resistance From Haymarket to Now, Anna Key (ed.) [Review].
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McArdle, Jack.
Anarcho-Syndicalism: History and Action [Review].
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McKenna, Edward.
Ready for Revolution : The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938. [Book Review].
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Meltzer, Albert.
Pinelli, Valpreda & state terror [Review of The Valpreda Papers: The prison diaries of Pietro Valpreda].
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Memoirs of a Fighter [Miguel Garcia Garcia, Looking Back After Twenty Years of Jail: Questions and Answers on the Spanish Anarchist Resistance] [Review].
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Men in Prison, Birth of Our Power and Conquered City, by Victor Serge [Review].
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Mental, Judge.
Angry fictions: "My Revolutions" by Hari Kunzru and "Johnny Come Home" by Jake Arnott [Review].
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Mintz, Frank.
Anarchism by George Woodcock [Review].
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Mintz, Frank.
A Siberian 'Makhnovshchina' [Review].
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Misfit by Jack White [Review].
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Alberola, Octavio and Xavier Montanyà.
The Life and Universe of anarchist Octavio Alberola [book review].
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Mother Earth Rides Again [Review of] Anarchy! An anthology Of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, Edited and with commentary by Peter Glassgold.
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My Eighty-One Years of Anarchy : A Memoir by May Picqueray [Book review].
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New Books [Rebel Alliances, Anti-Fascist, Bending the Bars, Bash the Rich, Reviewed].
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New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism [Book Review].
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No Pasaran!!! [Review of The Iron Column: Testament of a Revolutionary by Elias Manzanera and Unknown Heroes: biographies of anarchist resistance fighters by Miguel Garcia].
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Not Just Spanish Bombs: The Return of The Christie File [My Granny made me an Anarchist, The Christie file part 1 1946-64] [Review].
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Obsolete Communism: The Left Wing Alternative [Review].
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One Man's War in Spain : Trickery, Treachery and Thievery By Joaquín Pérez Navarro.
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Owen, William C.
Rocker's Internment Memoirs [Review].
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Pateman, Barry.
Anarchism, 1914-1918: Internationalism, anti-militarism and war [Book Review].
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Pateman, Barry.
An Appeal to the Young: Some thoughts on a best seller.
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Pateman, Barry.
Defiance: Anarchist Statements Before Judge and Jury (Detritus Books, 2019) [Book review].
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Pateman, Barry.
Fellow Worker : Barry Pateman reviews Cole, Struthers, and Zimmer, Wobblies of the World.
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Pateman, Barry.
Homuncula by John Henri Nolette [Book review].
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Pateman, Barry.
Our Masters Are Helpless: The Essays of George Barrett edited by Iain McKay [book review].
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Pateman, Barry.
Ruth Kinna “Kropotkin: Reviewing The Classical Anarchist Tradition” [Book review].
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Pateman, Barry.
W. A. Gape Half A Million Tramps London: George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1936 [Review].
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Pateman, Barry.
Worth a Second Look No. 1. Joseph Lane: An Anti-Statist Communist Manifesto. London: Joseph Lane, 1887.
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Pateman, Barry.
“Nameless in the crowd of nameless ones…” : Some thoughts on The Story of A Proletarian Life, by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1923.
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Patten, John.
Emma Goldman : a documentary history of the American years, Volume 1, Made for America, 1890-1901. Edited by Candace Falk, Barry Pateman and Jessica Moran [Review].
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Patten, John.
Librarian as cultural hero: Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky of the National Yiddish Book Center [Review].
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Patten, John.
More than they could chew [Review of The Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy].
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Patten, John.
The Poetics of Anarchy: David Edelshtat's Revolutionary Poetry by Ori Kritz [Review].
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Patten, John.
Portrait of the artist as a wanted man: Philip Ruff’s search for Peter the Painter.
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Patten, John.
Working Class History : The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson and Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global by Paul Mason [Review].
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Petard, Paul.
Not forgotten, then or now. Review: book of [Russian anarchist] prisoner support bulletins keeps their memory alive.
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Pietro Di Paola: The Knights-Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora 1880-1917 (Liverpool University Press, 2013).
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Poole, Dave.
Malatesta, Life and Ideas, edited by Vernon Richards, Freedom Press [Review].
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Preston, Paul.
Unknown Heroes: biographies of anarchist resistance fighters by Miguel Garcia [Review].
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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman, annotated and introduced by Jessica Moran and Barry Pateman [Book review].
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Read, Herbert.
Books: The Russian Terror [Review of The Guillotine at Work].
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Rebellious Spirit: Maria Occhipinti & the Ragusa Anti-Draft Revolt of 1945 [Review].
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Record, Marc.
Solidarity and Silence: the story of Ona Šimaitė, librarian lifesaver [Review].
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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón by Claudio Lomnitz [Book review].
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Revolution and the State: Anarchism and the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Danny Evans [Review].
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Revolution in Spain. Review of: The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, Volume 1 by José Peirats Valls.
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Rise and Fall of the FAI [Review of We, the anarchists! A study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937].
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The Role of the Anarchists in the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921: A Case Study in Conspiratorial Party Behavior during Revolution. John W. Copp. Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1992. [R.
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A Romp Through Anarchism [Review of Facing the Enemy by Alexandre Skirda].
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Ruff, Philip.
Book Review – The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid, 1923-1931 (KSL/ABSC, 2010).
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Ruff, Philip.
Hermanos! by William Herrick [Review].
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The Russian anarchist movement in North America by Lazar Lipotkin [review].
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Salvador Puig Antich & the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación [Review].
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Sargent, Lyman Tower.
A Novel of the General Strike [Book Review].
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Shaw, Rick.
Mini-reviews: Biographies.
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Shipway, Mark.
Anton Pannekoek, Workers' Councils and For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton [Review].
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Siberian Makhnovshchina : Siberian Anarchists in the Russian Civil War (1918-1924) by Igor Podshivalov [Book Review].
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The slow burning fuse: the lost history of the British anarchists [Book review].
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Some thoughts on Alexander Berkman.
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Something should be done (or How to revolt) [book review].
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The Sons of Night by Antoine Gimenez and the Giménologues [Book review].
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Spreading the Word [Review:] John T. Caldwell, With Fate Conspire: memoirs of a Glasgow seafarer and anarchist..
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Stanley, Gwen.
The Iron Column: testament of a revolutionary by Elias Manzanera [Review].
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Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist" by Stuart Christie [Review].
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The Story of the Iron Column [Book Review].
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Stott, Paul.
City Of Quartz by Mike Davis [Review].
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Stronacchi, Guy de.
Zapata of Mexico - a review.
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The Struggle Against The State And Other Essays by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda [Review].
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A Summer in the Park by Tony Allen [Review].
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Szarapow, -.
Revolutionary thought in Russia, 19th-early 20th century: An encyclopaedia [Book review].
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Szarapow, -.
"The Authority That Organises Terror" [Review of 'Procherk' ('A Stroke of the Pen') by Lydia Chukovskaya].
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Thoughts on ‘What everyone should know about state repression’ by Victor Serge.
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Three Japanese Anarchists : Kotoku, Osugi and Yamaga by Victor Garcia [Review].
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Toscano, Joseph.
You Anarchist, You by Ernestan [Review] .
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A Treat to Read [Review of Anarchism, Séan M. Sheehan].
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The Trouble with National Action [Book Review].
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The Ukrainian Revolution (July-December 1918) by Nestor I. Makhno [Book Review].
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Valadas, Jorge.
Review of Ready for Revolution, by Jorge Valadas.
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Warren, Richard.
The Albert Memorial: The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (2016 edition) [Book review].
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Warren, Richard.
Graphic dreams of Utopia [Book review of The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia].
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Warren, Richard.
Prisoner 155: Simón Radowitzky by Agustín Comotto [Book review].
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A Wee Black Booke of Belfast Anarchism and Down with the Fences! Battles for Commons in South London [Review].
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Cohen, Naomi, Robert P. Helms and Chaim Leib Weinberg.
Review of Forty Years in the Struggle: The Memoirs of A Jewish Anarchist, translated by Naomi Cohen, edited and annotated by Robert P. Helms.
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What is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman [Review].
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Wisdom earned the hard way - "The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid" [Review].
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The Women Incendiaries [of the Paris Commune] by Edith Thomas [Review] .
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Woodward, Alan.
Chomsky on Anarchism ed. Barry Pateman [Review].
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Working Class Self Organisation, -.
Review: The Albert memorial: the anarchist life and times of Albert Meltzer (1920-1996) an appreciation by Phil Ruff.