Direct Action (SolFed) #31 2004

Contents: thegoodnews

• Reasons to be cheerful: New Labour are clamping down on laughing and farting. Pm dead.
• Little Victories: The work/life balance of the politically active.
• Why no good news? Good news is not news to the mainstream media, but we all know there's a wealth of
  'good works' and feelings out there.
• MayDay'04 - Lancsfocus
• Seeing around the corner; Why we hate some Americans
• Le Pen sent packing; NHS sell-off
• ALL AUT?
• IRAQ occupation in pictures...
• On the edge: Nike Offensive; Blair Doesn't Care; Hypocrites Disunited; Football Fans; Work Kills More than Wars.,.; GM update; Naked Bike Ride; Greece reasons.
• international news: USA; West Papua; El Salvador; Haiti; Zambia; Spain; China; Belize; Iran; Colombia; India; Slovakia; Pakistan; Trinidad & Tobago.
• Features: Yo No Quiero Taco Bell; Coca Cola criminals.
• centrespread: Going places underground - Ken Livingstone talked the talk against tube privatisation. More recently, groups of tube workers, with lives as well as livelihoods at stake, have been walking the walk.
• globalfocus: Argentina: 21st Century workers' and community liberation.
• Anarchist Federation - comradely comments.
• justicepages: Tony and George’s torture chambers
• notes+letters
• Review Feature: Of Paradise and Power - Howard Zinn on Robert Kagan's book
• books and pamphlet reviews:
  TheBurning Tigris - Peter Balakian
  Peace Signs - The anti-war movement illustrated
  2/15 the day the world said NO to war - Hello NYC
  Radical Priorities - Noam Chomsky
  Controlled Flight into Terrain: Stealworks Anthology 3.0 - John Yates
  Workers' Councils - Anton Pannekoek
• music and film reviews:
  The Passion of Christ - dir. Mel Gibson
  The Sanity Clause - Deja Vue e.p.
  1-Speed Bike - Droopy Butt Begone!
  Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
  Calvin Party - Lies Lies & Government, & Life and other sex tragedies
• Sick boy of Europe: With long working hours and proven links to disease and death, the UK is the sick boy of Europe.
• DA resources: Info., upcoming events, campaigns, friends & neighbours.