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

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.

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.

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

We recently heard of that the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) had managed to establish a job shop in Hampshire, and took the opportunity to interview Ray Carr, the IWW delegate involved, recently. From Black Flag #214 1998.

At the recent Social Justice March in London, we took the opportunity to talk to Bob Ritchie, former Liverpool dockworker, about the War on the Wharfies and any lessons to be drawn from it. From Black Flag #214 1998.

Newham Monitoring Project has been fighting racial harassment and police harassment in East London…

Two of the editors of Green Anarchist write to Black Flag magazine.

An article from Black Flag #215 criticising an especially obnoxious article in Green Anarchist…

Article from Black Flag #215 1998.