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New Black Flag released - exclusive extract

Rob | 14.05.2008 08:39 | Analysis | Other Press | Social Struggles

The new issue of Black Flag has been launched with in-depth analysis of the BNP, the credit crunch, and anarcha-feminism, along with much more.

As part of the new issue's release, the Black Flag collective is putting up an online exclusive of Jack Ray's piece on poverty in Manchester. In this article, he argues that New Labour's interpretation of the city as a roaring success ignores the real concerns of the dispossessed in favour of a continual courting of big business.

The magazine will be on sale at the Manchester Bookfair, Projectile Film festival, and in a number of social centres and bookshops, including Freedom Press and Housmans in London. To get in touch with the collective, go to the email listed, or mail:

Black Flag
BM Hurricane,
London,
WC1N 3XX,
United Kingdom,

For bulk orders from AK Press:

AK Press (UK)
PO Box 12766
Edinburgh
EH8
0131 555 5165

Rob
- e-mail: blackflagmag@yahoo.co.uk

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are you making a PDF available?

14.05.2008 10:12

Or is it paper copies only.. tsk.

anarchist


Er, just did.

14.05.2008 12:42

But if you're asking us to give you the whole thing for free because you're too cheap to fork out for one and help us to break even, 'anarchist', no that's not happening. We might put the previous issue online at some point, but would probably need to sort out a website for it to go on.

Rob


Worth anyone's 3 quid

14.05.2008 15:04

We got copies here a couple of weeks ago and the new issue is excellent. Much more up-to-date subjects than before. Can't recommend it highly enough.

CH


pdf

14.05.2008 15:07

nah, Rob, if you give out the whole pdf it will save me and others the hassle of waiting for it in the post, i can print as many copies as i want at my own expense, spreading your distribution and keeping your costs down, you should let it spread online and off, your line of reasoning sounds like the Music Industry. Don't be so hostile and assume i'm a rip-off.

anarchist


Basic economics

14.05.2008 16:48

You printing out an individual copy on your printer is not the problem, it's the fact that we have to sell the initial print run otherwise we're out of pocket.

We don't have alternative means to break even. We don't advertise, we can't put on stadium tours featuring the writers, so we need this run to sell in order to fund the next one for people who don't want to or can't print out their own from the internet and so we can get physical copies out to places.

Our reasoning is not like the music industry, not least because we are not looking to profit. Ideally yes online distro would be a good way to expand our reach and influence. But it would simply be unsustainble for us to pay large sums of money to print BF and then give it away free until we've made our money back.

Basically, if you can raise us the money we spent on the print run, I'll have no problem persuading the rest of the collective to put it out online. Otherwise you'll have to wait until some more supportive types pay it for you I'm afraid.

Rob


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