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Interview with Martha Ackelsberg: Anarchist Scholarship and Feminist Critique Martha Ackelsberg's book, Free Women of Spain: documentation there. When I first went to Spain in and the Struggle for the Emancipation the mid-seventies, the archives were still run by the of Women, tells the story of Mujeres Libres. military, so they were not in any order that would Formed during the Spanish , Mujeres have made sense to a historian. They were Libres was an anarchist, feminist group dedicated cataloged by where the materials had been found; to the liberation of women from "their triple thus there was no way of saying, "Okay, we want to enslavement to ignorance, as women, and as find out something on collectivization — which producers." Free Women explores the struggles folder do we look at?" No, you had to go through faced by Mujeres Libres as anarchist women and all of it to see what was there. It was a ridiculous offers insights for contemporary on research process. issues such as community, diversity, Later, in the early 80's, I also confronted this empowerment, and autonomy. It makes important post-Franco fear. Lots of people were still very contributions to both anarchism and feminism. afraid to talk. Franco was only just dead and the I met with Ackelsberg on January 6, 1997, to political situation in Spain, from their point of talk with her about the difficulties of researching view, hadn't changed that much. From the outside anarchist history, her work as a radical social there looked like there had been this incredible theorist, and feminist perspectives on anarchism. transition to democracy, but they looked at it and ~ Rebecca DeWitt saw all the same people in power, supposedly democratically elected. TJT/'as it especially difficult to acquire archival YY or historical material on the Spanish rT1he Mujeres Libres were essentially an anarchist, anarchists as a result of their intense political JL feminist group. Were the methods you used to repression? research, analyze, and explore the Mujeres Libres It was difficult to meet these women, or find structured by similar anti-authoritarian con out about them, because my initial informants were victions? men and they really didn't take gender issues I was using the techniques of social and oral seriously. I don't think they were being deliberately history. The whole field of social history that has obstructionist, but they just didn't think it mattered developed in the last 30 years has been about — they couldn't get their minds around it. studying what used to be called marginalized or As for the archives, was a different situation. subordinated groups, e.g. workers, and saying that The archives were created by Franco's armies and one can't look only at official documents, but has secret police. They took all the documents from to spread a much wider net. places they captured and used them after the war to People like E.P. Thompson and Hobsbawm prosecute people for treason. There was incredible really created this field in the 60's, and continued on page 4

IAS Grant Awards

The IAS awards a total of S6000 annually in chronicled the Spanish anarchist movement from grants to writers whose work is important to the 1868 to 1936, by exploring the period from die anarchist critique of domination, who exhibit a outbreak of in 1936 to Franco's clear financial need, and whose piece is likely to victor}' in 1939. It will conclude with a discussion receive wide distribution. On January 11, 1997, of lessons to be drawn from the entire Spanish the IAS Board of Directors awarded the first IAS experience. grants to the following individuals: $1000 to Alan Antliff for his book, The Culture $1000 to for the completion of of Revolt: Art and in America. This his book, The Spanish Anarchists. This new book book will clarify the pivotal role played by will complement the first volume, which Continued on Pazc 6 PerspectivesJLon on anarchist anarchist theorytheorv

Some Comments on the IAS Perspectives - On Anarchist Theory critically. The IAS also awarded grants to Paul WelcomeAnarchist to the Theory, first issue the biannual of Perspectives newsletter on of Fleckenstein and Kwaku Kushindana, both of Spring 1997, Vol. 1, No. 1 the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS). whom will subject contemporary affairs to an anti- Newsletter of the Institute authoritarian analysis. for Anarchist Studies As a new and unusual organization, the IAS deserves some explanation. I will use this article to However, IAS sponsored scholarship will do more Editorial Committee: outline some of our goals and activities. than transform ideals. It will help us build a Rebecca DeWitt, Chuck movement for a free society by generating critical Morse The IAS was founded in the spring of 1996 to fight and Utopian insights into the mechanisms of social for radical, anti-authoritarian scholarship. We are domination, tactics of resistance, and visions of Grammatical Specialists: alarmed by the current scarcity of serious, social freedom. It will help us not only expand our Brian Wells Hay, John politically committed scholarship on social understanding of human potentialities but also Schumacher contradictions and the possibilities of social sharpen and clarify strategies for the realization of transformation. We believe it is necessary and these potentialities. Subscription Rates possible to revitalize this type of theoretical work, (Two issues per year) and that this requires the construction of politically In the future we hope only to intensify and expand IAS Donors - Free engaged organizations dedicated to this purpose. the IAS's activities. In particular, we hope to offer Individuals - $5 larger grants and initiate new projects, and we are Institutions - $10 Thus the IAS was formed to support critical building an endowment to ensure that this can (Please make checks payable to the scholarship on social domination and radical ideals happen and that the IAS can exist for generations. Institute for Anarchist Studies) of freedom - the two constitutive concerns of For the short-term, however, we will add four anarchist theory. The IAS supports this work in a pages to the next issue of Perspectives, post a web variety of ways, although we are focused on page on the Internet, and we are discussing holding IAS Board of Directors: providing financial assistance to writers. Our a conference this fall. Paula Emery assistance takes the form of grants, and we award John Petrovato an annual total of $6000. The future of the IAS cannot be considered without Maura Dillon first recognizing that its existence is the result of a Dan Chodorkoff We initiated the IAS grant program to ease the tremendous collective effort made by those who Cindy Milstein economic burdens imposed upon authors who helped build the organization since it was founded Paul Glavin question social hierarchies. While material rewards last spring. Those who donated to the IAS enabled Michelle Matisons are generously allocated to writers who justify it not only to give out its first set of grants but also social domination or shrink from social to emerge into a functioning organization. There IAS Coordinator: contradictions, those who struggle to articulate are many others who may not have contributed Rebecca DeWitt radical ideals are often forced to abandon or dilute financially but generously gave of their time and their work in order to survive. This, of course, is other resources. Brian Wells Hay deserves special General Director: neither accidental nor a permanent condition of recognition in this regard for helping create the Chuck Morse advanced intellectual work, but one way among IAS's elementary legal and tax structure (and for others that social criticism is suppressed. actually comprehending the state's arcane laws and regulations). For more information about Our grants will challenge this. They will give the IAS or a grant application, authors some relief from the brutalities of The IAS is only a small part of the movement we please send a self-addressed, economic necessity and thus help them write pieces must build, but it is an essential part that will help stamped envelope to: that confront the existing order. IAS grants will deepen both the critique of the existing order and enable writers to do things such as take time off of the vision of a free society. Like all radical Institute for work, hire childcare, or purchase a plane ticket to projects, its success pivots on one overriding Anarchist Studies an archive, thus affording them time and/or factor: the willingness of large groups of people to PO Box 7050 research materials that would otherwise be fight for radical ideals, radical institutions, and, Albanv, New York unavailable. ultimately, for social freedom. 12225 -USA ~ Chuck Morse This will help writers produce rigorous works that Phone:(518)465-3062 sustain and deepen radical social criticism. For E-mail: [email protected] example, this January the IAS awarded grants to Murray Bookchin and Alan Antliff, whose The IAS is a nonprofit, tax- inquiries into anarchist history will help us hold on exernpl organization. to the anarchist tradition and engage it more Perspectives-L on anarchist theory

Preserving Our Past: The Anarchist Collections What's Happening: by Jerry Kaplan Books & Events and desires. These collections allow us, as well as In individuals,different parts groups, of the and world both a public small and number private of others, to learn from anarchism's rich history. Bound Together Books will institutions are actively collecting and cataloging hold the Second Annual Bay anarchist related materials. There are also others The existing collections of anarchist-related Area Anarchist Book Fair on who have taken on the less exciting but equally materials can be grouped in a variety of ways. essential task of maintaining older, established What often determines, or at least influences, the March 29. 1997. Last year's was a great success, and this collections. And, while the motivation for size, focus, accessibility, and funding of a acquiring these materials may vary somewhat for particular collection is whether it is independently year's will probably be even or institutionally held. As someone responsible for better. For more information, each, there is one thing they all have in common: a write Bound Together at 1369 recognition of the importance of preserving the an independently held collection, I find the ideas and practice of anarchism, as recorded by its differences between the two quite significant. Haight Street, SF, CA 94117, or call (415) 431-8355. adherents, its sympathizers, and even - though The independent collections are usually the work opinions may differ on this point - its critics, so that The Institute for Social these historical records may be of use to interested of one or more anarchists motivated by a personal researchers and inquirers. interest in the anarchist milieu to collect materials Ecology is about to purchase a and establish and maintain small archival 10 acre property as a permanent Anarchists have good reason to want their history collections. In the US, the Anarchist Archives site for its radical educational preserved: so that we can learn what individual Project (AAP) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an programs in ecology and anarchists really thought and said without having to example of this kind of collection. I began working politics. The ISE, now in its rely on another's interpretation; be inspired by their on the project in 1982, and over the last 11 years twenty third year, is actively accomplishments: and gain insight into their lives fundraising to make this continued on page 6 possible and they need your support. Please contact the ISE Recommended Reading at the P.O. Box 89, Plainfield, VT 05667, or call (802) 454- 8493. We asked two authors to tell us streets and cafes before the age Marx and Bakunin. and about their favorite books on a of massive universities, 'last' explains the issues through real Several books will be released vital topic: the role of generation intellectuals wrote people's lives and relationships. this spring that will comple intellectuals in radical social for the educated reader. They It explains how socialist ment the already extensive movements. have been supplanted by high- thinking evolved during that literature on anarchist history. tech intellectuals, consultants era, what happened in the Paris Janet Biehl, author of and professors — anonymous and the First Sam Mbah and I.G. Igariwey's Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics souls, who may be competent, International, Bakunin's evo African Anarchism: The (South End. 1991). writes that and more than competent, but lution, and American com History of A Movement "in the impoverished political who do not enrich public life. munism. It looks at anarchism explores the relation between culture of the United States and Kropotkin, and helps me anarchism and traditional Younger intellectuals, whose African societies, the influence today, public intellectuals of any lives have unfolded almost understand the theoretical leftist persuasion, let alone left- of anarchism on African entirely on campuses, direct origins of our ideology. I also national liberation struggles, libertarian, are few in number. themselves to professional look to Cornell West and bell and the possible influence of "Intellectuals who write with hooks for political analysis. I colleagues but are inaccessible anarchism on Africa's future. It and unknown to others'. This think they are two of the vigor and clarity may be as will be available in April from scarce as low rents in New York lucid book is indispensable for foremost race relations/feminist See Sharp Press (PO Box 1731, or San Francisco', laments any discussion of left theorists, and I have much to Russell Jacoby in The Last intellectual life today." learn from them. West's Race Tucson, AZ 85702). Another Intellectuals: American Culture Matters (Beacon, 1993) and important book is Augustin in the Age of Academe (Farrar, Elaine Leeder, author of The hook's Black Looks (South End. Guillamon's The Friends of Straus & Giroux. 1987). Jacoby Gentle General: , Durruti Group: 1937-1939, 1992) and Outlaw Culture which draws on interviews with Anarchist and Labor Organizer goes on to analyze the social (Routledge. 1994) have given members of the group and causes of their decline, tracing me insight into contemporary (SUNY, 1993), writes that "my archival material to tell the the shift from public favorite is G.D.H. Cole's black critical thinking, and and Anarchism: 1850- anarchists need to apply some story of these remarkable engagement to academic militants. It will be available in professionalization. particularly 1890 (McMillian. 1957). The of their analysis of race and April from AK Press (PO Box in the present generation. In an book is old but it clearly gender to our own current earlier time, 'raised in city delineates the battle between theoretical development. continued on page 8 Perspectives-Ion anarchist theory

Martha Interview with Martha Ackelsberg: continued from page 1 Ackelsberg that's a major difference, as I understand it, from Hobsbawm's Primitive Rebels became one of my most anarchists in the contemporary US. There's a Martha Ackelsberg grew up on key resources when I began the project. Hobsbawm small working class presence, but it's mostly progressive politics. Bom in 1946 was totally anti-anarchist and I took issue with him in New York City to Socialist coming out of intellectual circles and college on that, but he was looking at these people. Nobody campuses. Zionist parents, politics was always had ever really looked at subordinated people Which isn't to say that the Mujeres Libres a part ofthe daily conversation. She before, and the kinds of sources that social didn't have theorists, they did, but they were received her BA in Social Studies historians are using now as a matter or course — constantly trying to figure out what issues people fix>m Radcliffe College, where she diaries, journals, etc. — weren't considered were dealing with on a day-to-day basis and how to studied social history, philosophy, legitimate. Whole new ways of thinking about use anarchist theories. social movements, and the labor doing history have developed, and I think Free movement. Her serious interest in Literacy was a big part of their work. You Women is part of that. might say, "What does literacy have to do with anarchism emerged while exploring anarchism?" Well, literacy was connected with a the failure of 191'' century Liberal sense of self-respect: that agrarian policy to improve 7ou contemporary hoped to strengthen feminist move the u n l e s s p e o p l e t o o k conditions for the majority of ment by using Mujeres Libres as themselves seriously and felt Spanish people. It was here that she a historical example. Was it also they deserved some kind of discovered the anarchists, and wrote your intention to strengthen — her thesis on anarchism and respect, they were never or help develop — a contemporary going to be able to make any agrarian politics in Spain. anarchist movement? kind of impact on the world. I certainly don't have any So, they spent a large portion While attending Princeton Uni objection to doing that. I see a lot of whatever resources they versity, where she received her MA of connections between feminism had teaching people how to and PhD in political philosophy, she — certainly as it began again in read. was inspired by Godwin's political the 70's and some strands of it They were neither propa theory and explored anarchist that have continued — and gandizing nor out to teach theories of justice in Godwin, anarchism. I guess in my rational people anarchist theory. They Bakunin. and Kropotkin. Combin voice, I don't think that were out to mobilize people ing anarchist political theory and her anarchism is the future in the US; to better their lives, their previous work on the Spanish it's not like there's a major working conditions, and their Anarchists, her dissertation focused movement. On the other hand, I world, and they were doing on anarchist theory and practice, think there are insights about that along anarchist lines. I with a case study of anarchist authority, organization, and ways think they assumed and collectives during the Spanish Civil of doing things that need to be hoped that over time people War. reclaimed, remembered, and gotten back into the would learn from and through this what it means to larger understanding of politics and society. be in a participatory, relatively non-hierarchical In 1972. Ackelsberg joined the I was also trying to clarify that there is a whole organization as opposed to an organization where Department of Government (polit as a transformative social everything comes from the top down. It was really ical science) at Smith College. She movement that's tremendously important and leaning through practice rather than theory, and has worked there since, and has valuable. I think it's part of the general repression then applying it. I think that's one place where the taught political theory, urban of the Left that we know so little about the contemporary Left could learn a lot. politics, political activism, and anarchist movement in this country. Paul Avrich feminist theory. Her book Free has certainly done a lot to reclaim that history but Women of Spain developed out of there's an enormous amount out there. Anarchists /n thethe last necessity 30 years or of so, reevaluating many have recognized the basic the desire to examine male/female have made tremendous contributions to all kinds of presuppositions of many fields — psychology, relations in the Spanish anarchist social movements — the labor movement most philosophy, linguistics, etc. — as a result of the collectives. Her other writings focus dramatically — that nobody thinks of as anarchist. insights generated by feminism. Do you think that on women's community activism in anarchism demands a similar transformation? the US and the world, gender and Yes and no. Just last year I wrote a piece on public policy, feminist and rhe organized Mujeres Libresextensive published speaking atours. journal What and do feminist transformations of anarchism. What seems democratic theory, and women in contemporary anarchists have to learn from the clearest to me has to do with understandings of Jewish communities. Ackelsberg Mujeres Libres' engagement with ideas and power, and it's partly coming out of feminism and lives in Nordiampton, MA, where theoretical work? partly out of postmodernism. We need new ways of she is actively involved in progress The strength of the Mujeres Libres was thinking about power. People like Kropotkin, ive and feminist causes. meeting people where they were at. They were Bakunin, and Goldman were really saying that we fundamentally a working class movement, and need to abolish power, and feminists have been PerspectivesJ. on anarchist theorvtheory

Anarchist Scholarship and Feminist Critique Ackelsberg: saying that this is too simplistic in some ways. We T Tow do you see your work developing in the Selected Works need to reconfigure power. You can't get rid of it ±JL future? completely, and even Bakunin and Kropotkin, in I've been looking at issues of gender and Free Women of Spain: some ways, talked about that; for example, they citizenship, and thinking about ways that people Anarchism and the Struggle for talked about natural authority as opposed to actually engage with one another in politics, the Emancipation of Women artificial authority. They too recognized that you broadly defined, as opposed to the ways that Bloomingtion: Indiana University can't get rid of it completely. I think now, with the politics is normally represented. I see that as an Press, 1991. insights of feminism and a more complex view of extension of my work on Mujeres Libres. I was "Gender and Political Life: New the world, there is a place for serious reminking of actually just talking with some friends about how Directions in Political Science," anarchism. we've lost the Utopian, anti-hierarchical, anti- with Irene Diamond. In Analyzing authoritarian vision we held in the 60's and 70's, Gender: A Handbook of Social and that it's important to re-articulate that again. Science Research, edited by Beth rhe Mujeresthe anarchist Libres movement made a feminist in their time.critique How of So, I might take that on next, but I'm trying to B. Hess and Myra Marx Ferre. should feminists critique anarchism today? decide at the moment. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, Just this rethinking of power. While What do we mean by politics? What could it 1987. historically most anarchist theory seemed to be in mean to be a citizen at a time when everything is "Anarchism and Feminism," with favor of complete equality between men and becoming centralized and people are feeling much Kathryn Pyne Addelson and women, certainly the anarchist movements didn't more alienated? These are question I'm concerned Shawn Pyne. In Impure do a whole lot of thinking about what that would with. I'd like to take some of these insights about Thoughts: Essays on Philosophy!. mean on a practical level. I would suspect this is grass roots organizations and work with others to Feminism and Ethics, edited by probably still true; there are certain assumptions help revitalize a Utopian vision. That's the political Kathryn Pyne Addelson. Phil about men's and women's roles that are not dead place I am coming from; how that gets worked out adelphia: Temple University yet. in an academic framework, I haven't totally figured Press, 1991. Feminism is still a side issue, not as serious as out. "Terrains of Protest: Striking Giry ecology, for example. There is still a place for a Women," with Myma Brietbart basic feminist rethinking. You could end up with a 7~*\o you consider yourself an anarchist or do Our Generation, Vol. 19, No. 1 very different picture of what the movement is J-Jyou adopt any specific political identi (1987): 151-175. about if you think about interpersonal relations as fication? integral to what you're doing as opposed to an I definitely see myself on the Left. Actually, annoying thorn in your side. when I was conducting interviews for my book, I would ask people, "How did you become an As a scholar of anarchism and a feminist in anarchist?" and they would say "I don't claim to be JJiacademia, have you had to struggle to retain an anarchist. I'm not good enough." I always the political content of your work? thought it was kind of cute when they said that, but Yes and no. There certainly were people who I feel a little like that answering this question. I didn't think I belonged here [at Smith] and who suppose there's a part of me that says if I were to tried to get rid of me precisely for political reasons, take any label, I would take that. On the other hand, but fortunately they were outnumbered. There were I don't always act like an anarchist; for example, I also several people who were very supportive of vote, I take elections seriously, etcetera. I can come me and enthusiastic about my work. up with this entire analysis of why it doesn't make "Communities, Resistance, and I think for many academics on the Left the any difference whom one votes for in a presidential Women's Activism." In Women issue is how not to lose one's roots in the political election, and a big part of me believes that. and the Politics of Empowerment: questions that brought us to theory in the first However, I am still not willing to give up on it Perspectives from the Community place; and, at the same time, making your writing completely, given that this is the world in which we and the Workplace, edited by Ann acceptable to your academic colleagues. For me, live. Bookman and Sandra Morgen. the big struggle was to write Free Women of Spain The fact is, it's very difficult to figure out how Philadelphia: Temple University so that it communicated the spirit of these women to live in this world, which is incredibly complex, Press, 1988. and was accessible to an audience other than incredibly alienating, in which there are extra "Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Spanish historians or political theorists, yet would ordinary means of control and repression, and Jewish Jews on the American still be recognized by political theorists or inequality is growing in leaps and bounds. At the UK Response, M,mz historians as relevant. I feel like I was more same time — people laugh at me sometimes for successful meeting the first goal than the second, being too much of an optimist and I suppose that's Among her influences, Ackelsberg and I suppose that's fine. Most of my colleagues the anarchist piece of me — there is incredible cites E.P. Thompson, EJ. Hobs- didn't really care; they mostly cared that I had potential for mobilization and change. I suppose bawm, Carole Pateman, and the written this book and that it was published by a that's what keeps me going. women of the Mujeres Libres. reputable publisher. PerspectivesJl on anarcnist theorytheory

... Collections Coninued usually have a narrower focus, and this is as much IAS Gram have collected some 8,000 items. To the best of my a function of the interests of the collectors involved as lack of funds. For example, the AAP collection Awards knowledge, the AAP is the only independent archival collection in the US currently acquiring is almost exclusively composed of anarchist- anarchist-related materials from around the world related materials, with a few council communist ...Continuedfrom page I and being coordinated by an anarchist. It is and situationist items thrown in. The KSL, in anarchism in the development probably the largest cataloged collection in the US addition to its collection of anarchist-related of modem art in America. It in non-institutional hands. The Kate Sharpley materials, contains materials dealing with class will explore both tunwrf-the- Library (KSL) in London is also an example of this struggle history, as well as a few other related century debates about the type of independently held collection, although it subjects. But not all the independents are as relationship between art and reflects the work of a small number of anarchists specialized; the A Gallery has a much broader politics and the development of rather than one individual. The Alternative (or A) focus and anarchist materials make up only one discourses that cast anarchism Gallery in Greece is yet another independently held part of its total collection. With institutionally held in the arts as part of a larger collection. collections, the anarchist portion is but one among revolutionary culture. It will other, not necessarily related collections, or only demonstrate that anarchist The institutional collections are often connected to one part of a much larger collection appearing artists and art critics formulated a university, as is the at the under a heading like "The Left" or "Labor." their artistic practices and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, or the state, criticism to further radical as in the case of the impressive collection at the However, institutionally held collections don't hold p r o g r a m s o f s o c i a l International Institute for Social History in the all the advantages. Those involved with the transformation. Netherlands. There are also a number of smaller, independently held collections tend to have more but nevertheless important, collections, such as the direct links to the anarchist milieu and thus more $500 to Kwaku Kushmdana for Joseph Ishill collection at Harvard's Houghton direct access to the materials produced by anarchist his essay, "Avoiding New Library. However, the libraries that possess these activists. The importance of personal connections, Forms e*o4heJAS. focus. The independently held anarchist collections continued on page 8 PerspectivesJL on anarchist theory

IAS Supporters: The 1996 Fundraising Campaign How to Help The IAS's first fundraising Frank Adams Ian Grimmer Jack Schlessinger The IAS campaign was a complete Anonymous John Gruchala Milly Schoenbaum success thanks to the individuals Alison Bailey Brian Herbert Richard Schram The IAS needsi,your.support: listed here. Their generosity Sandy Baird Blake Howe John Schumacher we musfcraisei$8500 by 1998 to enabled the IAS to meet its Matt Black Lawrence Jararch Jon Scott award $6000tmigrantSj

... Collections Continued print periodicals produced in the UK may be next Each of the independently and institutionally held to impossible to acquire on this side of the Atlantic. What's Happening: collections has its own strengths, a result of a With out-of-print, non-English language period Books & Events combination of a number of related factors: the icals, the problem is even greater. But it also personal interests of the collector or collectors happens that collections acquire duplicates of items ^cqnltmued^vm^>agei3 . involved and their ideas about what an archival already in their possession, and these can be used collection should look like, that is, if they are still to trade for other, needed items. The Kate Sharpley 40682, SFj CA 94140). Also, acquiring and therefore defining their collections; Library and the Anarchist Archives Project engage Freedom IPress is publishing the materials they've been able to find (and can in a fairly regular exchange of items. This kind of Mm Netiteu's A Short History afford to purchase), as well as the amount of time exchange benefits both parties, and is an important of Anarchism, which you can spent on doing this; and the quantity and contents way of acquiring items otherwise difficult to find. pick up for £9*95 'from of the donations received. The AAP collection, for Freedom Stress (84b example, contains a significant number of Italian Each archive or library may differ with respect to Whit¥cMpei Iffigh Street, and Italian-American anarchist materials. This size and focus, but most provide a number of basic London, El 7QX) and St happened, not because of anything I did, but services. These typically include low cost Martins Press wi&release Mina because of the generous donations of a handful of photocopying and research assistance. Some may Graur's \ ,new 1>f6graphy of individuals who happened to possess these items. offer additional services (providing bibliographies, Roclcer: An Anarchist Rabbi: The KSL, on the other hand, has in its collection a database searches, etc.) to varying degrees. Access 'tfh&&1fe and Teachings of large number of Spanish anarchist materials, due in to some collections may be limited either because no small part to the number of Spanish anarchists they are housed in a private residence, like the who settled in England after Franco's victory in AAP and KSL, or because one is not affiliated with The radical ecology movement Spain. a school or have the right credentials, i.e. - be an wBfrreceive^ a boost vrith the academic, as is the case with the Joseph Ishill puffiicatteh oflBrian Tokar's Geography and time also play an important role in collection at Harvard. But even the librarians at new *bpdk~ Earth jfor Sale: defining the strengths of a collection, and also, Harvard will respond to letters, provide you with Reclaiming Ecology in the Age inversely, its weaknesses. The AAP collection is information, and photocopy requested items. of 'fCdrpprki^ Greehwash, strongest in the area of US and Canadian anarchist availaTsleimi^rmg^wSh^South materials published in the last twenty years, mostly Finally, besides the AAP, the KSL, and the A End Press. because these items are the easiest to find if you Gallery, there are a number of other anarchist happen to be collecting here and now. These are collections worth mentioning: Das Anarchiv in The Anarchy Archives on the also the kinds of items most often donated. It's also Basel and the Anarchistischen Dokumentations- Internet is growing alf the- time. much easier to fmd items here in the Boston area zentrum in Weltzar, Germany; the Centro Studi .Recent additions to" their than it was in Buffalo, New York, where the Libertari "Giuseppe Pinelli. in Milan, Italy; the colifecfion} delude -yiEmma project began. However, this advantage has its Centre D'Etudes et de Documentation Librairie in • GpWi^s^^iTari^usm-^ and limits: being based in the Boston area has not made Lyon, and the Centre International de Recherches :.a^^|||^|Qa^;TOore it any easier to locate locally published items on sur 1'Anarchisme in Marseille, France; the ■piec;es^|libe^jlbgied 'this Sacco or Vanzetti, or the 19th century Boston Fundacion Salvador Segui in Madrid, Spain; and spirmg.::-&Com^^ati ^http:// anarchists like . the Centre International de Recherches sur , w^v^jja J^r#.d'U^M|;ward/ 1'Anarchisme in Lausanne, Switzerland. There are A*nja)f%p]®:s&Jtfr£%$>x e s / It often happens that items hard to find in one place others as well. 'arcKwhpm^ht^^;;^Kile you and therefore considered "rare," may be more easily found elsewhere. This is certainly true for If you're interested in donating items, contributing Bank Booksv newcatalbeue at most things published abroad. A number of out-of- financially or finding out more about the Anarchist "Upt0i4^m^-Mi^&p::coml Archives Project, or would like the address of one ~jonkonnu/catalog:hmil. of the other anarchist collections, please write me at: Jerry Kaplan, c/o The AA Project, P.O. 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