The anarchist paper Edinburgh Black Flag is shitty in attitude, and has not even got a base address that it's published from or any regular place of finding it any more frequently than annually. For it was at the Meadows Festival, annual, that I picked up one.
Its attack on Justice For Innocent Men Scotland, where it sides with dangerous dogma that defending men from injustice is anti-women, contradicts absurdly the usual healthy scepticism of the justice system in radical writings. This is the type of literature you expect to see call out court short cuts or politicised contrivance of charges. Indeed this is self-named anarchist literature which means against laws. Yet instead, without any analysis, it calls it "fearmongering" to call out easy miscarriages of justice in sexual cases, or to say there is a witch hunt, and it depends the sections 274/275 powers for judges to deny applications to present defence evidence that socially embarrasses the accuser. Completely looking glass.
At JIMS's demo at parliament 2 days before, rape/abuse survivors had banners that they are not defended by jailing the innocent !! There is no logic at all in claiming, in one line unsupported by any analysis, that a justice campaign is bound to turn into misogyny. Look at the Salmond case followed by the present SNP scandals. This is another case among so many where radicals have worshipped dogma to a point that betrays the common sense of ordinary folks' situation !
