Black Flag is back! Fifty years after first appearing, it has been relaunched as an on-line journal. This incarnation will be (at least) a bi-annual journal following in the footsteps Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review and can be found here:
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André Léo: Internationalist and Communard
An article on the life and ideas of André Léo, an early French feminist and (libertarian) socialist. A member of the First International and a leading participant in the Paris Commune. It first appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review Vol. 4 No. 2 (Summer 2024).
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Harbinger of Anarchism
American academic J. Salwyn Schapiro claims that Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a fascist have been repeated by Marxists ever since he made them. This article exposes his bad-faith as well as the many distortions and inventions Schapiro inflicted on Proudhon, showing that he was – for all his faults – an anarchist. It appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review Vol. 1 No. 2 (Summer 2021)
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The Poverty of (Marx’s) Philosophy
A review of Marx’s The Poverty of Philosophy which indicates various distortions of Proudhon’s work. It also discusses how Marx in 1867 applied the methodology he had attacked Proudhon for using twenty years earlier. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review R No. 70 (Summer 2017)
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Proudhon: Neither Washington nor Richmond
A discussion of Proudhon’s views during the American Civil War which indicates that the common assertion that he supported the South is inaccurate. Rather, he opposed both sides and argued for full political-economic rights for blacks as well as economic reforms to abolish the proletariat. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, No. 60 Summer 2013.
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