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Black Flag: Anarchist Review Autumn 2025 issue now out

The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available:

The Prestige Of Terror

A short text by Franco-Egyptian Surrealist and socialist agitator Georges Henein on the state of the world around him.

Jean Grave on Colonization – Jeff Shantz

This article examines Jean Grave’s pamphlet “Colonization.” “Colonization” remains a compelling, if problematic, polemic. It presents both a see…

Student Protests in America

Konflikt on recent student protests in America over the genocide in Palestine.

Notes on Spain

On recent industrial and University unrest in Spain - and the Acratas group. From Internationale Situationniste #12 (September 1969).

Dolgoff, Sam, 1902-1990

An obituary and short biography of Russian-American labour organiser and anarcho-syndicalist Sam Dolgoff.

Edo, Luis Andres, 1925-2009

A short biography of Luis Andres Edo, one of the last historic figures of the Spanish anarchist organisations CNT-FAI.

The whitewashing of French forces in the liberation of Paris - Steven Johns

A short account of how American and British commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris was orchestrated by a “whites only” force.

To remember Spain: the anarchist and syndicalist revolution of 1936 - Murray Bookchin

Collected essays by Murray Bookchin on the Spanish Revolution.

The latest deception - Gabriel Miasnikov

In this essay first published in 1930 in France, the founder of the Workers Group denounces the bureaucracy that he claims seized power in a “co…

Poland 1956 - Vladan Vukliš

A history of the uprising in Poland, 1956 which began at the ZISPO factory in Poznan.

Proletarian management: Informal workplace organization - Kämpa Tillsammans

Interesting article about informal workplace organising, management tactics and suggestions for workers to build power on the job.

1970-1990: The war of counter-insurgency in El Salvador

Noam Chomsky on the ultra-violent war of the right-wing regime in El Salvador against grassroots resistance of workers, peasants and liberation…

Elaine Brown on the Black Panthers, Jean Seberg, Eldridge Cleaver and COINTELPRO

Fascinating extracts from the memoir of Elaine Brown, the only female leader in the Black Panther Party. Here she recalls Jean Seberg and other…

Some remarks on homophobia and homosexuality

Junge Linke analyse the question of homosexuality.

Constructive policy versus destructive war - Marie Louise Berneri

These two excerpts appeared originally in the anarchist paper War Commentary, and have been republished in the posthumous collection of Berneri'…

54 - Wu Ming

1954. Hollywood actors, cold warriors, mobsters, drug dealers and homing pigeons. What will Yugoslavian president Tito do, now that Joe Stalin i…

Bakunin: Dispelling Misunderstandings

In the centenary year of Bakunin’s death, a census of all the gibberish that has been written about Bakunin would require a considerable amount…