Albert Meltzer News Today

Online archive of over 200 issues of Black Flag, a UK-based class struggle anarchist newspaper and magazine founded in 1971.

This response to the graffitiing of official monuments in London on May Day 2000 looks at the origins of war memorials in the social conflicts at the end of World War One and at the myth of the Second World War as an anti-fascist crusade. See also A good day out in London? for further reflections on May Day 2000.

Partial online archive of issues of Black Flag, a UK-based anarchist magazine founded in 1970. Libcom also hosts a gallery of Black Flag cover art here.

The story of the first successful squatters of private property in Lambeth. In 1972, Olive Morris and Liz Turnbull, both members of the Brixton Black Panthers, occupied a flat above a launderette in Railton Road and successfully fought off attempts at illegal eviction. In doing so, they set an example for hundreds of homeless young people in Brixton and the flat remained squatted for many years.

A 1951 pamphlet produced by the Free Society Group of Chicago, the World scene from the libertarian point of view features 21 anarchists giving their outlook on international issues and anarchism's potential.

Two interviews with veterans of the anarchist scene in 1940s Glasgow.

A biography of Polish-born anarchist Leah Feldman, nicknamed the "Makhnovist Granny" who tirelessly devoted her life for the cause of working class emancipation.

A short biography of Indian anarchist MPT Acharya.

A short account of the celebrated anarchist Malatesta Club of 1950s London.

Notes on why anarchists have created libraries (past and present) and some of the challenges they face, drawing on a survey of current anarchist libraries, anarchist history, and the author's own experiences at the Kate Sharpley Library.