Anarchy #03 1971
The infamous "Acid Issue" of the 2nd series of Anarchy magazine.
Drugs and Guns – Black Flag
Article on drug related violence in North West London and the Nation of Islam’s community based response. From Black Flag #218 1999.
Cops and Cocaine: Bent for the cause – Black Flag
In Black Flag issue 212, in the article "Scotland Yardies" we argued that "police strategy is in reality about the confinement of crime within working class areas" and that "whether for political purposes or private gain, some police are actively involved in the drug trade in inner cities." This article attempts to further substantiate that contention.
Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
An essay written in 2018 and updated in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York and prior to the June 2020 uprisings. Explores the death of a woman named 'Kathy' through the eyes of a frontline social worker. Originally published on the website of Hard Crackers.
Letters: Wildcat UK #16
Letters from issue 16 of Wildcat (UK).
1983-85: Bolivian Protests and Strikes Defeat President
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 19:36
In 1983 Bolivia elected a left wing president supported by a coalition of leftist parties and union federations. However the President priorities the paying of foreign debt and brought in neoliberal reforms and lowered wages and living standards for many Bolivians. As a result he alienated his allies and thousands of industrial workers and peasants rebelled with a series of protests and strikes.
Careerists and Corporate Interest: Why despite endless failure the drug war will continue indefinitely
Submitted by Soapy on Aug 28 2016 17:50
A look at why drug war policies continue despite totally failing to achieve their stated objectives.
Protesters in Chicago take action to reclaim MLK weekend
Submitted by Soapy on Jan 16 2016 18:33
Protesters in Chicago are marking Martin Luther King Jr weekend with actions targeting the city's mayor and racist police force.
Paranoia and terror as models of governance – Alèssi Dell’Umbria
A 2011 essay on Mexico’s descent into chaos under the blows of NAFTA and the “drug war”, whose purpose is not only to transform northern Mexico into a security zone for the U.S., but also to hasten “primitive accumulation” (driving peasants off their land—which is then handed over to agribusiness or extraction industries—and into the “colonias” where they will be prey to the drug war and intensive police and military repression) by destroying the surviving communal social forms in “a war against society” that is traumatizing the population but also generating a largely indigenous, assembly-based autonomous movement that is forming militias to defend its communities (e.g., Chiapas).
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