More than 650,000 official deaths, 130 million on the edge of starvation, hundreds of millions potentially out of work. And still counting. This…

Review of Out of the Frying Pan - a critical look at works councils Published by Solidarity Federation. From Black Flag #215 1998.

Ashanti Alston is a father, an anarchist, a prison abolitionist, and a former…

Today the sea which the caesars of ancient Rome called Mare Nostrum has again become the focal point of the clash between the imperialist powers…

Racists in government don't talk about "illegal immigrants" any more. They talk about “bogus asylum seekers". This is a useful code for squeaky clean racists like Jack Straw and Mike O'Brien. They don't need to talk about being swamped by an alien culture, the press know what to do and oblige with stories of hordes of asylum seekers in Richmond [about seven in fact] or tidal waves of Slovak Roma at Heathrow, and…

Article from Black Flag #215 1998.

An analysis from Ill Will Editions looking at the role of the Black middle class in the process that ensured "we became good protestors, we…

This study guide is intended to help activists understand the police and craft strategies to abolish them. The guide examines the role police…

Short UK news items from Black Flag #215 1998.

Joan Robinson once said that the point of studying economics was to be able to work out when economists were lying. Being a left-wing Keynesian, she was immune to the usual ideological (if not religious) biases of mainstream economics. Her point is both correct, and usually ignored because economics has far more to do with ideology than facts, belief than science.

Louis Adamic's classic 1930 essay on the origins and development of Los Angeles. For those who saw this mentioned in Mike Davis' City Of Quartz…

In Black Flag issue 212, in the article "Scotland Yardies" we argued that "police strategy is in reality about the confinement of crime within…