Direct Action (SolFed) #12 1999

Contents

• After McPherson: Anti-racist Education?: The McPherson Report into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence told us we need anti-racist education. Here’s how and why New Labour won’t deliver it.
• actions + comment: June 18th, Stop the Crop, Name and Shame your Inspectors, and An abuse of Trust, Czech Flag burning, Keeping Occupied.
• Events/Campaigns/Gatherings listings
• globalfocus: After Kosovo: Kosovo gave Clinton and Blair the chance to put another piece in the New World Order jigsaw. Anyone who supports NATO's involvement take note.
• international news: India, Turkey, Mexico, Lithuania and J18 across the world: USA, Canada, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Uruguay, Australia, Nigeria and Pakistan.
• Schools: Learning to Live, Teaching to Fail: Schools are a relatively recent way of maintaining continued hierarchy and privilege in society. But are they all bad?
• Enabling, Disabling: Of all the people the education system fails, the most vulnerable will be forever labelled ‘learning disabled’.
• basic.action: Frequently Asked Question - Beginners guide to alternative education. SolFed info - contacts and ideas.
• The Free-Ed Interviews: LibEd and SelfEd; Two Collectives committed to freedom and self-expression in education.
• lite.action: Notes and letters, and children without childhood.
• Education reviews:
  The Scapegoat Generation - America’s war on adolescents - Mike Males
  A D-I-Y Guide to the Liberation of Learning - LIB ED
  Real Education; varieties of freedom - John Gribble
  The Dredd Phenomenon - John Newsinger (Preview)
• film/music reviews:
  The Seige - Denzel Washington, Annete Bening, Bruce Willis
  OZOMATLI - Ozomatli
• obituary: Jim Allen
• book reviews
  The Four Voyages - Christopher Columbus
  A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Bartolomé de las Casas
  Prisoners and Partisans: Italian Anarchists in the Struggles
  Against Fascism - KSL
  The Twins - John Wallace
  Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Human Identity - Lawrence Wright
• periodical reviews: Troops Out, LIB ED
• Riding the Tertiary Rollercoaster: In for repair again - isn't it time it was given a proper going over? In-depth in further & higher education.
• Restructuring HE: University sector policy and prognosis on the key issues of fees and access.
• Childrearing in Reality: The latest drive to get party politics into parenting, and how it will damage the next generation of parents and children, just like the last one.