Kate Sharpley Library

KSL
Kate Sharpley Library
Anarchist historian Barry Pateman (left), at the Kate Sharpley Library booth at the 2011 Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair.
Location	Northern California, United States
Established	1979
Collection
Items collected	As of 2010: over 2,000 books 3,000 pamphlets 2,000 periodicals in the English language. Large French, Italian and Spanish sections. Publications in most languages, including Esperanto.
Other information
Website	katesharpleylibrary.net

Anarchism in the United States
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Ideologies Black Chicago idea Christian Green Individualist Pacifist Philosophical Without adjectives
History Cincinnati Time Store Most–Grottkau debate Haymarket affair Homestead strike Assassination of William McKinley Immigration Act of 1903 Ferrer Center and Colony Immigration Act of 1918 Galleanisti First Red Scare 1919 bombings Palmer Raids Sacco and Vanzetti Libertarian Book Club and League Counterculture of the 1960s Protests of 1968 Battle of Seattle Occupy Wall Street Qilombo Capitol Hill Occupied Protest
People Alston Andrews Austin Balagoon Bari Berkman Berrigan Best Biehl Bookchin Bushnell Chomsky Cleyre Czolgosz Day Dolgoff Emerson Ervin Fielden Fischer Galleani Garrison Georgakas Goldman Goodman Grace Graeber Greene Hahnel Haldeman-Julius Hammond Harman Heywood (Angela) Heywood (Ezra) Hill Hoffman Holmes Ingalls Inglis Kaczynski Konkin Labadie Lingg Lloyd Lum Magón Most Parsons Perlman Sale Solanas Spies Spooner Thoreau Tucker Warren Wilson Wolff Zerzan Zinn
Active organizations ABC No Rio Anarcho-Syndicalist Review Anti-Racist Action Beehive Design Collective Catholic Worker Movement Common Ground Collective CrimethInc. Earth Liberation Front Indecline Industrial Workers of the World Institute for Anarchist Studies Institute for Social Ecology Kate Sharpley Library Labadie Collection Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council MOVE Profane Existence Red Emma's Ruckus Society
Defunct organizations Cincinnati Time Store Curious George Brigade Diggers Don't Just Vote, Get Active Ferrer Center and Colony George Jackson Brigade Institute for Applied Autonomy International Working People's Association Libertarian Book Club and League Love and Rage New England Non-Resistance Society New York Social Revolutionary Club Portland Anarchist Road Care Qilombo Right to Existence Group Spanish Camp Tenacious Unicorn Ranch Union of Russian Workers Up Against the Wall Motherfucker Vanguard Group Why? Group Youth International Party
Media AK Press Autonomedia The Blast Catholic Worker Cronaca Sovversiva Fifth Estate Free Society Freiheit Golos Truda Liberty Loompanics Mother Earth PM Press Regeneración Vanguard The Word
Literature "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849) "To the Workingmen of America" (1883) Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) Now and After (1929) In Defense of Anarchism (1970) Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971) "The Abolition of Work" (1986) Industrial Society and Its Future (1995) From Bakunin to Lacan (2001) Understanding Power (2002) Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004) Direct Action: An Ethnography (2009)
Related topics American Left Anarchism in Puerto Rico Anarcho-capitalism Libertarianism in the U.S. Labor history of the United States Minarchism Socialism in the U.S.
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The Kate Sharpley Library (KSL) is a library dedicated to anarchist texts and history. Started in 1979 and reorganized in 1991, it currently holds around ten thousand English language volumes, pamphlets and periodicals in its archive.