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In 1976, the Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan declared that the "English disease" of indiscipline and labour militancy was undermining the profitability of UK capital. Curing the "English disease" became the raison d’etre of the ruling class. Article on New Labour and plans for resistance from Black Flag #220 (2001)

The following essay is a subjective consideration of where the anarchist/direct action movement is and where, I feel, it might go. From Black Flag #222 (2002).

Article from Black Flag #222. This article originated as a workshop given at the Prison Abolition Conference held in London, January 2002.

The working class currently faces the challenge of the combined consequences of the pandemic and the underlying crisis of capitalism. Even though…

SchNEWS on the Socialist Workers Party and their anti-capitalist front group Globalise Resistance. …

An anarchist response to the Socialist Workers Party's criticisms of the anti-capitalist movement in…

Article in Black Flag #220 (2001) on David Shayler, the former MI5 agent and his cosying up to liberal reformists.

Black Flag article from 2001 on New Labour's proposals for draconian legislation aimed at football fans.

Article from Fighting Talk #15 (1996).

Mick O'Riordan was a young member of the Communist Party of Ireland when he went to Spain with the International Brigade. Here he describes the…

Out of print introduction to Marxist philosophy by R.S. Baghavan of Socialist…

AFA introduction to a series of articles on the Spanish Civil War in its magazine Fighting Talk #15 (1996)