Forever in Debt Article on the stranglehold that debt has on working class communities, with some suggestions on resistance. From Black Flag #220 (2001).
Trotwatch #1 Summer 1992 Debut and possibly only issue of Trotwatch magazine, an anarchist look at the left. With thanks to Sparrows Nest archive.
Curing The English Disease 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)
Changing the way we think of Direct Action 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).
Justice - A bourgeois Concept? Article from Black Flag #222. This article originated as a workshop given at the Prison Abolition Conference held in London, January 2002.
A Sign of Things to Come The working class currently faces the challenge of the combined consequences of the pandemic and the underlying crisis of capitalism. Even though…
Monopolise Resistance? - how Globalise Resistance would hijack revolt - SchNEWS SchNEWS on the Socialist Workers Party and their anti-capitalist front group Globalise Resistance. …
Authoritarians, Vanguards and Anti-Capitalist Movements An anarchist response to the Socialist Workers Party's criticisms of the anti-capitalist movement in…
Secrets and Lies: David Shayler Article in Black Flag #220 (2001) on David Shayler, the former MI5 agent and his cosying up to liberal reformists.
Reforming Zeal: Jack Straw vs football fans Black Flag article from 2001 on New Labour's proposals for draconian legislation aimed at football fans.
Mick O'Riordan: The Connolly Column 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…