(en) Britain, Glasgo, Anarchist Federation - Nottinghamshire: Anti-workfare demonstration during Boycott Workfare week of action

Members of the Anarchist Federation, Nottingham group, supported the Notts Against 
Workfare ?Burton blockade? yesterday in and around Nottingham market square where four 
shops using forced unpaid workers were demonstrated at, outside and in. Inside the shops 
we asked for anyone on workfare to let us know if they wanted to, which was successful in 
British Heart Foundation, one of the many charitieshttp://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=2332 
known for exploiting unemployed people under threat of losing their benefits if they 
refuse to work for free. ---- The week of action called by Boycott Workfare 
http://www.boycottworkfare.org/ highlights the continuing scandal of forced unpaid work 
for people who receive welfare. Workfare profits the rich by providing free labour, whilst 
threatening the poor by taking away welfare rights if people refuse to work without a 
living wage.

The four shops visited in Nottinhgam that are known to be involved with workfare were 
Burton, British Heart Foundation, Debenhams and Poundland. Leaflets were handed out and 
shops were entered to speak to workers and customers.

Workfare has been opposed by anarchists for many years. This is not the first time that 
workfare has been tried out, as it was by both Conservative and Labour governments in the 
1990s. 
http://www.afed.org.uk/news-and-events/145-end-of-the-social-wage-radical-responses-to-the-welfare-reform-bill.html

A fuller article and photo can be found on the Notts SOS website: 
http://nottssos.org.uk/2013/03/24/photos-of-the-anti-workfare-demo-in-nottingham-city-centre-on-2332013/.