Black Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2025 issue now out

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

https://www.blackflag.org.uk

Following on from our “Kropotkin special” to mark the 180th anniversary of his birth, this issue is a “Proudhon special” to mark the 160th anniversary of his death – and the 185th anniversary of his proclaiming “I am an anarchist” in What is Property? and so anarchism as a named socio-economic theory.

Review: The Egoist Encyclopedia by Wolfi Landstreicher

From The Creative Nothing

The Egoist Encyclopedia is a significant compilation of columns authored by Wolfi Landstreicher for Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed. Wolfi has established a notable reputation in the fields of Egoism and Anarchism through his extensive body of work, positioning himself as an important contemporary thinker.

Scrutiny #1 (an anarch journal of review) NOW AVAILABLE!

Scrutiny is sorely needed, everywhere. That has been our assessment. If we are to move beyond the banal and redundant self-referential mediocrity of this current reality, we need to be far more relationally critical and honest, not only of the horrifying world at large, the varied environments we are part of, and our own thoughts and actions, but most force- fully with the withering anarchist space we still dwell within (somewhat reluctantly and certainly marginally at this point, we suppose).

Justice, Primitive and Modern by Bob Black

From A Beautiful Resistance by Ian Blumberg-Enge

For Bob, writing is play, “productive play” to use his amazing phrase, but he puts in the work. He went to law school and, for the most part, made his living doing legal research. This clearly had an impact on Bob’s perfectly constructed arguments, but it also gave him a unique insight into an area many anarchists know little about, and almost avoid as if fearing some supernatural contagion – law and criminal justice.

Freedom UK Review: Prison solidarity, Farage fiasco, and Zapatista gathering

From Freedom News UK

Discussing New Year’s Eve prison demos and why they will become more important, the short Farage-Musk love affair, and the challenge of restoring community networks as the Zapatistas’ call to prepare for the fall of capitalism within seven generations

Yintah film review

From BC Counter Info

Original title: "Yintah film review: Anarchists in the blind spot, or the necessity to write our own histories"

Yintah is the latest installment of a long tradition of indigenous documentaries speaking truth to power against colonial violence in so-called Canada. The story told is of an anti-pipeline struggle to protect the richness of life that the Wedzin kwa river offers, a decade long fight that involved not only the Wet’suwet’en peoples of northern British-Columbia, but also hundreds of dedicated non-indigenous comrades who fought valiantly alongside them. Except the film chose to cast them aside.​​​​​​​

Book Review: Safety Through Solidarity

From Freedom News UK by Jay Arachnid

Poor timing or perfect timing? Re-centring American Jewish voices crying out against the weaponisation of Jewish trauma by extremist right-wing/quasi-fascist Israeli politicians while at the same time deflecting and minimising the homicidal oppression of Palestinians (and now Lebanese)? I ordered this book prior to the audacious October 7 Hamas attacks; the authors had to scramble to incorporate something about it in their introduction and toward the end of the text.

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