{"id":1854,"date":"2009-05-06T01:41:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2009-05-06T05:13:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T19:13:10","slug":"something-old-something-new-something-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"Something old, something new, something black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OLD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A short while ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1827\">republished<\/a> the editorial from the very first issue of <em>Black Flag<\/em>. Forty years later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As <em>Black Flag<\/em> brings out its May 2009 issue, we proudly present all three of the pre-2009 issues produced by the current collective, for free download from the libcom.org website.<\/p>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/library\/black-flag-issue-226\">226<\/a> (Late 2007)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/library\/black-flag-issue-227\">227<\/a> (Mid 2008)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/library\/black-flag-228\">228<\/a> (Late 2008)<\/ul>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all! For a sneaky peak at our cover story for the new issue, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/library\/black-flag-229-sneaky-preview\">sneaky preview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside a look at Greece in the aftermath of the riots, <em>Black Flag<\/em> is covering:<\/p>\n<ul><em>In focus<\/em>: In the first of a three-part series, Tom Gaynor looks at New Labour\u2019s time in power.<br \/>\n<em>News<\/em>: Laura Norder enters the Sparrow\u2019s Nest, Nottingham\u2019s archive of liberty.<br \/>\n<em>Interview<\/em>: <em>Black Flag<\/em> talks to Irish anarchist Andrew Flood about his recent journey into the weird and wonderful world of US activism.<br \/>\n<em>Investigation<\/em>: Paul Stott on media attempts to link Islamist terror to 19th century anarchists.*<br \/>\n<em>Interview<\/em>: Rob Ray talks to a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldmg.org.uk\/\">Legal Defence and Monitoring Group<\/a> about protest and policing.<br \/>\n<em>Theory<\/em>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afed.org.uk\/\">Anarchist Federation<\/a> bring their perspective to the economic crisis.<br \/>\n<em>Analysis<\/em>: Iain McKay remarks on the tendency of writers to impose their own prejudices on anarchist theory in defiance of reality.<br \/>\n<em>History<\/em>: Continuing our look at anarchists past, Ade Dimmick writes on Simone Weil.<br \/>\n<em>Radical Reprint<\/em>: Malatesta explains why anarchism is not a destructive creed but a creative one.<br \/>\n<em>History<\/em>: Glasgow\u2019s Bloody Friday in 1919.<br \/>\n<em>Interview<\/em>: Mark Leir on his new biographical account of Mikhail Bakunin.<br \/>\n<em>Review<\/em>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.co.uk\/catalog\/book.htm?command=Search&#038;db=main.txt&#038;eqisbndata=0099492881\">Live Working or Die Fighting<\/a><\/em> by Paul Mason.<br \/>\n<em>Review<\/em>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akpress.org\/2007\/items\/ananarchistfaqakpress\">The Anarchist FAQ<\/a><\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>Reviews column<\/em>: Hob\u2019s Choice, rounding up some of the best new pamphlets available.<\/ul>\n<p><em>Black Flag<\/em> is stocked in radical bookshops across the UK and available from AK Distribution and Active Distro. The editorial address is <em>Black Flag<\/em>, BM Hurricane, London, WC1N 3XX, UK. Each issue costs \u00a33 + \u00a31 p&#038;p. UK cheques payable &#8216;Black Flag&#8217;. Email blackflagmag AT yahoo.co.uk for more information.<\/p>\n<p>*Media attempts which are supplemented by the efforts of some in the academy. <em>See<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/content~content=a903342135?words=gelvin&#038;hash=843258562\">&#8216;Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian&#8217;s Reply to Terrorology&#8217;<\/a>, <em>Terrorism and Political Violence<\/em>, Vol.20, No.4, October 2008. I&#8217;ll throw it up on my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1855\">soon-ish<\/a>. <em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1634\">Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite (No.666)<\/a>, January 20, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLD A short while ago I republished the editorial from the very first issue of Black Flag. Forty years later&#8230; NEW As Black Flag brings out its May 2009 issue, we proudly present all three of the pre-2009 issues produced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1854\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anarchism","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-tU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}