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Please see below for a list of new additions to the Digitial Library. This time it is a rather ecclectic mix of documents, also including a bunch of comics which we digitised for a researcher last November. If you ever want us to digitise some specific document, please let us know.

Please note some of these files are rather large (50MB+), so if you think your browser has crashed, give it a few moments, it may just be loading the document. If any of the links are not working or lead to the wrong document, please let us know. All documents come in good enough resolution to blow them up to A3(ish) prints and feature OCR, though that does not always work well with some of the fonts used and OCR is usually pretty bad in picking up the more arty bits of writing.

The full catalogue information for these titles will be online with the next proper catalogue update (some time in February?). What you see below are just titles and some information on publishers/authors (etc.) to give you an idea what you will be clicking on.

Enjoy!

Comics

The Scum - The Paper that supports the pickets; Catalyst (1987)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7761.pdf

Bakunin, Michael; Warren, Richard: A Critique of State Socialism; Cienfuegos
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7296.pdf

Tales of Suspence - An introduction to Culture Jam
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7612.pdf

The Cruxifixion Comic Vol:01 #03 (1998)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7642.pdf

Class War Comix #01 (1979)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7502.pdf

CIA (Cartoons Included Also) #09
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7697.pdf

The Storming of the City - Remember June 18, 1999! (1999)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7712.pdf

The Faction File (undated)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/4158.pdf

Corporate Crime Comics #02 (1979)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1547.pdf

Anarchy Comics - International Anarchy! (1978)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1548.pdf

Morgenmuffel - A Collection from Issues 2-10 (2008)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7713.pdf

Morgenmuffel #11 - Cartoons and Rants (2003)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7714.pdf

Morgenmuffel #12 - Cartoons and Rants (2004)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7715.pdf

Morgenmuffel #13 - Cartoons and Rants (2005)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7716.pdf

Morgenmuffel #14 - Cartoons and Rants (2006)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7717.pdf

Morgenmuffel #15 - Cartoons and Rants (2006)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7718.pdf

Morgenmuffel #16 - Cartoons from my life (2007)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7753.pdf

Other stuff

Anarchism - as we see it; ACF/AF Anarchist Communist Federation/Anarchist Federation
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/6187.pdf

Anarchism in the May Movement in France; IWW
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7763.pdf

Arm Yourself at the Anarchist Bookfair (1990)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7754.pdf

As we see it now; Workers’ Council Socialism (2008)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7760.pdf

Bakunin, Michael: The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State; B Books (1987)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/4741.pdf

Bakunin, Michael: The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State; CIRA (1971)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7287.pdf

Bash the Fash - An introduction to Antifa
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/6739.pdf

Beating Fascism - Anarchist Anti-Fascism in Theory and Practise; AFA
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7752.pdf

Berneri, Camillo: Peter Kropotkin - His Federalist Ideas; Freedom (1943)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/2060.pdf

Brown, David: The Cobas - Italy 1986-88 a new rank and file movement; Advocom (1988)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1630.pdf

Claremont Road - The Final Act??? Some guidance notes in anticipation of the Mother of all Evictions; No M11 Link Campaign
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7604.pdf

Clydeside Anarchist #02 (1984)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/6642.pdf

Coates, Ken; Blackburn, Robin (eds): The Week Vol:01 #06 (1964)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7742.pdf

Craig, Sheila (ed): Stonehenge '85 - Souvenir Issue; Unique Publications (1986)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/229.pdf

Creating Safer Spaces - What are "safer spaces" and how do we make them? …; Radical Practical Feminist Self-Defence (2008)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7751.pdf

Curtis, Liz: They Shoot Children - The use of rubber and plastic bullets in the North of Ireland; Information on Ireland (1982)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/222.pdf

Dirty Fingers in Dirty Pies; Sky & Trees (1985)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/568.pdf

Facts on the Spanish Resistance #01; Centro Iberico
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7762.pdf

Fish: Blasphemy
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1225.pdf

France - May 1968; Calderwood 15
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/6695.pdf

Garcia, Victor: Three Japanese Anarchists: Kotoku, Osugi and Yamaga; KSL (2000)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/298.pdf

Goldman, Emma: The Place of the Individual in Society; Free Society Forum (1941)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1997.pdf

Gramsci, Antonio: Turin 1920 - Factory Councils and General Strike; Moulinavert Press (1989)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/937.pdf

Gregoire, R; Perlman, F: Worker-Student Action Committees - France May '68; Black & Red (1970)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/312.pdf

Guerin, Daniel: Anarchism & Marxism; Cienfuegos (1981)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7755.pdf

Heroes or Villains?; AFA (1992)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7749.pdf

P.S.C. News #03 - Polish Solidarity Campaign Newsletter; Polish Solidarity Campaign (1981)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7744.pdf

Poison Pen #??; Hastings Free Press (1984)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7738.pdf

Poll Tax Riot - Ten Hours that Shook Trafalgar Square; ACAB Press
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7164.pdf

Prints of Darkness #02 (1984)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7737.pdf

Schulkind, Eugene: The Paris Commune of 1871; Historical Association (1971)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1809.pdf

Sleeping Dogs #02
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/4854.pdf

Solidarity #08 - For Social Revolution (1979)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7743.pdf

Solidarity #11 - For Social Revolution (1980)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/4368.pdf

Sometimes Anti-Social… …Always Anti-Fascist; Now Or Never
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7748.pdf

Spectacular Times #?? - Bigger Cages Longer Chains; Spectacular Times (1981)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7746.pdf

Spectacular Times #?? - Images and Everyday Life; Spectacular Times (1993)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/802.pdf

Spectacular Times #?? - The Media; Spectacular Times (1993)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/798.pdf

Spectacular Times #08 - The Spectacle A Skeleton Key; Spectacular Times
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/2632.pdf

Spectacular Times #12 - The Bad Days Will End; Spectacular Times
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7745.pdf

Basile, Stephanie (ed): Suburban Blight #04
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7756.pdf

Griffiths, Bronwen: The Corruganza Boxmakers Strike; Past Tense (2007)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7750.pdf

The Sheffield Anarchist Vol:03 #02
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7740.pdf

The Week Vol:01 #18 – A News Analysis for Socialists (1964)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7758.pdf

The Whinger #07 - Irregular Libertarian Socialist Rantzine (2008)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7759.pdf

Timperley Village Anarchist #01
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7739.pdf

Nous ne sommes rien soyons tout; Collectif 1984
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/3481.pdf

Toxic Grafity #02
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7736.pdf

Ward, Colin: Violence; Penguin (1970)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7741.pdf

We are Winning - The Battle of Seattle: A Personal Account; Wildfire Collective (2000)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/646.pdf

Whatever - Rants and Tracts from the Proletarian Twighlight Zone; ETV (2006)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/662.pdf

With a Smile and a Twinkle in my Eye - An Interview With Anarchist Ex-Prisoner Mark Barnsley; ABC Leeds (2003)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7747.pdf

Wrigley, Chris: The General Strike 1926 in Local History; Loughborough University (1982)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1331.pdf

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