Black Flag is probably the longest-running anarchist magazine in the UK and it has recently returned, refreshed from a 2-year hiatus. Issue 227, published on May Day, is the second issue since the return and contains much of interest to activists in Scotland.

A review of the play "The Unconquered," written by Torben Betts and performed by Stellar Quines at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.

Route Irish is a new movie from director eamon crudden. it follows the realisation and increased awarness of the U.S. governments covert operations prior and starting the war on iraq.

this film is very important as it shows the truth that was there even before the rendition scandal (which incidently was set off and contributed to by irish activists).

the film also documents the direct actions taken by activists (one of them a faslane peace camper at the time!! and scottish too.)as their outrage grew with knowledge.

As part of Glasgow's Doors Open day and a curtain-raiser to October's Black History Month events, speakers and musicians gathered at St Andrews in the Square to commemorate 200 years since the Abolition of Slavery Act.

Bonjour Tristesse, literally Hello Sadness or perhaps more fluently, Goodbye Happiness is the title of a 1958 film starring Jean Seberg and sadness is something that Jean was to know much of in her brief and tragic life. This is her story.

A review of an anthology of poetry published by Bloodaxe books called 'The New Poetry', by Michael Hulse (Editor)

The Radical Independent Bookfair in Glasgow last Saturday included a screening of the 1990 film “Workers' City”. The screening was in tribute to John Taylor Caldwell, seaman and anarchist, who died on 12th January at the age of 95.

The Spanish “Transition to democracy” was simply a way to fortify the capitalist economic model. With such Transition, the Spanish dominant class eliminated all sort of social resistance and opened the way for business; they made a Francoism without Franco and presented the Transition as a triumph of the people. It was a history written by the owners of money and their fascist sentries.
But Memory, Dignity and Struggle continue

Basque political prisoner Iñaki de Juana’s hunger strike has been in the media in recent weeks. After 63 days on hunger strike demanding justice and attending the numerous requests he received and the mobilisation of Basque society, De Juana ended his protest. He began his hunger strike due to the attempt by the Spanish State Prosecution to get him sentenced to 96 years in jail for writing two press articles.

Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan with over 20 years of foreign affairs experience, talks about torture and human righs abuses in Uzbekistan. He presented his book: "Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror" at the Edinburgh Independent and Radical Bookfair on Friday, 13th of October 2006, at the session on "Political Terrorism and the US Imperial Project".