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How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Black Flag

The periodical Black Flag centers on anarchist news, important figures, and developments in Europe and the Western world. Published by the Black Flag Group based in London, its main political tenets are the total rejection of nationalism and solidarity with international anarchist groups. The primary themes of the periodical include the liberation of political prisoners, articles about the theory, practice and interpretation of anarchism, updates on international transfers and transitions of governance and other topics of interest. All of the periodicals include a domestic news column Roon N Aboot, literature reviews, letters to the editor and an international news update. Black Flag represents an interesting contribution to the late 1970s European leftist periodicals by its inclusion of dissenting opinions about anarchism and its focus on political prisoners and efforts to gain their freedom.  

Documents

Black Flag: Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross Black Flag: Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross
Publisher: Black Flag GroupYear: 1976Volume Number: Vol. 4-12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Flag
This issue focuses on the false imprisonment of Noel and Marie Murray in Ireland and Matthew Lygate in Scotland.
Black Flag: Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross Black Flag: Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross
Publisher: Black Flag GroupYear: 1977Volume Number: Vol. 5-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Flag
Focuses on conflicts in Germany between anarchists and Greman police. Contains several articles pertaining to the debate over trade unions throughout Europe.