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Article from Black Flag #218 1999.

Article on gentrification in the London Borough of Hackney, from Black Flag #222…

An interview with journalist Nick Cohen from Black Flag #218, 1999. It is worth noting that Nick Cohen's initial scepticism about the New Labour project did not prevent him supporting the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and signing the Euston Manifesto in 2006.

1998 Black Flag article about asylum seekers, New Labour, the local community in Dover, fascist and…

A Black Flag article about Jack Straw's approach to law and order in the early days of the New Labout government.

An article from Black about the benefit cuts instigated by the New Labour government.

An article about the Prevention of Terrorism Act from Black Flag #216 1999.

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…

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

Three months on from Sir Keir Starmer’s accession to the Labour leadership, we now have a better…

Race Today Collective on the reformist turn of black politics in the 1980s.

Issue #5 of Liberation, with articles on Thatcherism after the 1987 election, reports of anti-fascist action in Leicester, public order in…