What follows is based on the thorough work of Carl Sleinger.It is a bibliography of pamphlets published by Freedom Press between 1889 and 1923.I will add the later years in the next few weeks.Together with "Mother Earth" pamphlets and the pamphlets initiated by Benjamin Tucker published in the United States,Freedom Press pamphlets were responsible for introducing written anarchism to,initially,English speakers all over the world.A look at them might give us some clue to what people understood by anarchist communism and anarchism in that period.More on this later.Meanwhile here is the list
1889 Kropotkine, Peter "The Wage System" December (Freedom pamphlet No 1)
(translation of Le Salariat in "La Revolte 26-30 August, 1888)
A " New and Revised edition, 1909?
A "New" edition, 1920
1891 Kropotkine, Peter "The Commune of Paris" March (Freedom pamphlet No 2)
( translation of La Commune de Paris" in Le Revolte 20th March 1880
Second (?) edition,1896
Malatesta, Errico "A Talk About Anarchist Communism between Two Workers" August (Freedom pamphlet No 3)
(translation of Propaganda Socialista-Fra Contadini in "La Questione Sociale" September 1884.
" Revised and enlarged from the Third Italian edition"
Kropotkine, Peter " Anarchist Communism:Its Basis and Principles" September (Freedom pamphlet No 4)
(A re-issue of The Scientific Basis of Anarchy in the "Nineteenth Century, February 1887 and The
Coming Anarchy in "Nineteenth Century", August 1887. Printed at the New Fellowship Press,26 Newington Green Road, London, N.
A Second edition 1895
A Third Edition 1897
A 1913 edition, unnumbered
A 1920 edition unnumbered
1892 Malatesta, Errico "Anarchy" October (Freedom pamphlet No 5)
(translation of "L'Anarchia", London 1891)
Kropotkine ,Peter "Anarchist Morality" October (Freedom pamphlet No 6)
(translation of La Morale Anarchiste in "La Revolte" March1-16 April, 1890
A 1909 edition, unnumbered
An eighth edition 1912
1894 Wilson, Charlotte "Anarchism and Outrage" January? (Freedom pamphlet No 8)
(a re-issue of "Anarchism and Moral Outrage" "Freedom", December 1893)
Second(?) edition,1909
1895 Kropotkine, Peter "Expropriation" March/April? (Freedom pamphlet No 7)
translation of L'Expropriation in "Le Revolte", 25th November,1882
Bevington, Louise Sarah "An Anarchist manifesto.Issued by the London Anarchist Communist Alliance May?
Bevington , Louise Sarah "Chiefly a Dialogue concerning some Difficulties of a Dunce" August
Etievant, Grave and Caserio "Anarchy on Trial" December (Freedom pamphlet No 9)
translations of Declarations de G.Eteviant in "La Revolte 15-22,29th October,1892, Proces de
La Sociale Mourante etc in "La Libre Parole" 25 February 1894
1896 Landauer, Gustave "Social Democracy in Germany" August/September?
(translation of Von Zurich nach London in "Der Sozialist" 1896
Morris, William "Useful Work v Useless Toil" October/November? The "Freedom" Library)
Morris, William "Monopoly,or How Labour is Robbed" October/November? (The "Freedom" Library)
1897 Kropotkin, Peter 'Anarchism:Its Philosophy and Ideal" March (Freedom pamphlet No 10)
(translation of" L'Anarchie,Sa Philosophie,Son Ideal" Paris 1896
Spies et al "The Chicago Martyrs" September
Spanish Atrocities Committee "Revival of the Inquisition- Prefatory note by Edward Carpenter. December?
1898 Kropotkin, Peter "The State:Its Historical Role" September (Freedom pamphlet No 11)
(translation of L'Etat:Son Role Historique in "Les Temps Nouveaux" No 19, 1896
A Fourth Edition 1912
1900 Nettlau , Max "Responsibility and Solidarity in the Labor Struggle" May? (Freedom pamphlet No 12)
1901 Glasse, Henry "Socialism the Remedy" April? ("Freedom" Library)
(Reprinted from "Freedom")
Nieuwenhuis, Ferdinand Domela "The Pyramid of Tyranny" October (Freedom pamphlets No 13)
(translation of "De Pyramide der Tirannie" , Amsterdam,1901
A Second edition 1909
1902 Kropotkin, Peter "Organised Vengeance called Justice" together with Glasse, H "The Superstition of Government" April/May? ('Freedom" Library}
(translation of "L'Organisation de la Vindicte", Paris,1901
1903 Kropotkin and Peter "Socialism and Politics" June (Freedom pamphlets No 14)
1904 Kropotkin, Peter 'The Coming Revival of Socialism" April? (Freedom pamphlet No 15)
(partly reprinted from "Freedom")
1905 Libertas (A. A. Davies?) "The King and the Anarchist" May
1907 Walter, K (?) 'The International Anarchist Congress Held at the Plancius Hall, Amsterdam" December
1908 Pouget, Jean,Joseph, Emile "The Basis of Trade Unionism" March ('Voice of Labour" pamphlet}
(translation of "Les Bases du Syndicalisme" , Paris,1902?
Chapelier, Emile and Marin, Gassy "Anarchists and the International Language Esperanto" August
(translation of " Les Anarchistes et la Langue Internationale 'Esperanto"", Paris,1908
1909 Smith, J. Blair "Direct Action Versus Legislation" April
(2nd edition.First edition published by the "Free Action Anarchist Group", Glasgow,1899
A Third edition 1913
Swan, Tom "Kropotkin,the Man and his Message" September
(reprinted from "The Milligate Monthly"
1910 Bakunin, Michael "God and the State" a new edition revised. February
(First published in Boston,1883 by B. Tucker}
perfect bound Soft cover
1911 Tcherkesoff, Varlaam, Nikolaevich "Concentration of Capital.A Marxian Fallacy" January (Freedom pamphlet)
(a chapter from his "Pages of Socialist History", New York,1902
1912 Roller, Arnold "The Social General Strike" April
(translation of Der Soziale Generalstreik", Berlin 1905
An "Anglicised version" of the edition published in New York by George Bauer in 1905
Anon "The Story of the Chicago Martyrs" October (Freedom pamphlet)
Kropotkin, Peter " Modern Science and Anarchism" December
(translation of Russian edition published in London in 1901.The first English edition was published in 1903 in Philadelphia)
A Second edition 1923
1913 Spencer, Herbert 'The Right to Ignore the State" December (Freedom pamphlet"
(Chapter omitted by the author in his 1892 edition)
1914 Wilkinson, Lily Gair "Women's Freedom" May
Kropotkin, Peter "Wars and Capitalism" August (Freedom pamphlet)
( a chapter of his "Modern Science and Anarchism" )
1915 Barrett, George "The Anarchist Revolution" May
(reprint of A General View of Anarchism in "Freedom")
1920 Wakeman, John "Anarchism and Democracy" January (Freedom pamphlet")
Senex (W C Owen) " England Monopolised or England Free?" May (Freedom pamphlet)
1921 Barrett, George 'Objections to Anarchism" September (Freedom pamphlet)
1922 Owen, W. C. "Anarchism Versus Socialism" June (Freedom pamphlet)
( first published in New York by the Mother Earth Publishing Association,1908)
Goldman, Emma " The Crushing of the Russian Revolution" November
1923 Kropotkin, Peter "Revolutionary Government" June (Freedom pamphlet)
(translation of Le Gouvernement pendant la Revolution in "Le Revolte" 1882
The first English edition was published in London by "Commonweal" in 1892
That'll do to start with.More later with sources of pamphlets, reprints of pamphlets and circulations etc etc
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