Direct Action (SolFed) #04 1997

Contents

• Editorial
• Consenting Adolescents — asks whether changing the age of consent for same-sex relationships is progress or a failure to address abuse and sexuality.
• Does Work Make You Sick? Then Let’s Change the Way We Work — workplace health and safety.
• Anarcho-Syndicalist Education: The First Step? — practical organising for self-education.
• Direct Actions Britain — short reports.
• Quadrant Bites — New Labour and privatisation of Royal Mail caterers.
• Dresscodes — considers whether workplace dress codes have any logic and why they can become a disciplinary issue.
• The Disposables — on temp workers.
• The FAQs — practical facts for temporary, agency and casual workers.
• Australian Racism Special: What Fair Go? — combines the case of Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Aboriginal oppression, and contemporary racism in Australia.
• Global Power Trips — the real politics of power.
• IWA News Service — brief coverage of international actions.
• True Stories — “Job soap” and a tale from ancient Greece.
• Reviews — includes Che Guevara, Friends of Durruti, LARD, Crash, Get on the Bus, magazines from Belgium and Australia, a German video, the 1926 Committee, and Starvation Army.
• Letters.
• Pensions: Beyond the Pension Rip Off — argues that state pensions are failing and asks what follows.
• Health Cheques — private healthcare in the UK.
• Endpiece — asks whether the "Social Chapter: is really a chapter for change.

Thanks to Kate Sharpley Library for providing a copy to be scanned.