Black Flag 226 (2007)

• Cover story: Nicolas Sarkozy has the attitude, but does he have the strength?
  Page 4

• Analysis: How the French Popular Front of 1936 had the potential to be so much more.
  Page 7

• Obituary: Looking over the remarkable life of Murray Bookchin, a founding father of social ecology.
  Page 13

• Critique: Bookchin trains his insight on a tome which helped change the world –
  The Communist Manifesto
  Page 14

• Review: Andrew Flood lauds a long overdue recognition of the contribution of revolutionary Lucy Parsons.
  Page 18

• Centre spread: Maurice Brinton explains the pitfalls and parallels of sects and socialism, followed by a review of the last book he wrote before his death in 2004
  Page 20

• Review/History: Richard Alexander takes an extensive look at the life and times of Buenaventura Durruti, as told by Abel Paz.
  Page 26

• Obituary: John Taylor Caldwell worked his whole life to keep the flame of anarchism alive.
  Page 32

• Analysis: In the first of a three-part series, Iain McKay delves into the Russian Revolution.
  Page 35

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This issue, Brighton SolFed writes in Black Flag about the class logic behind the destruction of the post war social contract...

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

• Cover story: Examining the new welfare bill and why its regressive politics must be fought
• Theory: Exploring the roots of anarchist economics
• Overview: The history and present of the anarchist bookfair, by one of the founders of the event
• Breathing Utopia: Our new series on how society’s essential functions might work after a revolution, starting with journalism
• In Focus: Part two of Tom Gaynor’s look at the ideology and legacy of New Labour
• Theory: Examining neoliberalism
• Debate: Nicholas Evans argues the case for a new kind of Wikipedia
• Reportage: The secrets of Oaxaca
• Theory: Was Nietzsche an anarchist?
• Report: The Anarchist Conference 2009 and moves towards another in 2010
• Debate:Manchester No Borders on the need for solidarity with Calais migrants
• Biography: The story of Ethel MacDonald
• Radical Reprint: Ethel and the Civil War

REVIEWS

• Ethel MacDonald: An anarchist’s story
• Black Flame: The class politics of anarchism and syndicalism
• The Battle for Spain: 1936-1939
• The Resistible rise of Benito Mussolini
• Plus our regular pamphlet reviews column: Hob’s Choice

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For other issues of Black Flag, go to:

Black Flag 230
Black Flag 229 (Mid 2009)
Black Flag 228 (Late 2008)
Black Flag 227 (Mid 2008)