Black Flag 235 (2012)

With workfare in the news at the time, this issue focused on the CWU union's enthusiastic support for its use in Royal Mail, alongside articles on the economy, Scottish Independence and the potential consequences of the collapse of the BNP.

For the centre spread, Tom L offered a a slightly different tack on the union question, looking at it from the ruling class point of view, while in history Jack Ray and Iain McKay looked at the 1934 Asturian miners' strike and the Pentonville Five campaign respectively.

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Cover story: Workfare in the post – and the union bosses enabling it
Reportage: Far right is back on the streets as the BNP and EDL take a tumble
Theory: The reality of inequality
Analysis: Our economy roundup
Breathing Utopia: Talking about how the NHS won’t benefit from privatisation, but revolution...
Analysis: Mike Deeson explains why the AF won’t campaign for Scottish independence
Theory: How the ruling class see the trade unionism question
History: The Pentonville Five
History: The story of the Asturias
History: Giving an overview of anarchism, post-1945
Radical Reprint: Peter Kropotkin on the use of the strike
Syndicalism: McKay on Darlington
Berkman: Petard on Russia’s political prisons
Cancer: Woodward on the history of a disease
Hob’s Choice: Shorts on radical pamphlets
Joe Jacobs: Willis on the activist’s days after Cable Street