Direct Action (SolFed) #20 2001

Casual Slavery: Contents

• Rights and resistance: Need-to-know facts on casualisation and temporary work. Plus: Manpower will make you sick, and the Spanish CNT will make you take to the streets.
• Private agendas: Public post - Well over half of all industrial disputes in Britain in recent years have resulted from action taken by members of the Communication Workers’ Union. Here’s why.
• Casual housing: If you still have any doubts about where Labour’s priorities lie, look no further than their policies and practices on local authority privatisations.
• actions+comment: Passing the toxic buck; The age of alienation; Government: Guilty of racism. On the edge: Day-in day-out robbery; Shark Practice; Ambience police; Barcode health; Don’t trust Guiness; STOPE$$O; Hiding the truth; Strike a light.
• blairedvision: Religious education - If some people wish to have their children taught in a belief in God, astrology, space aliens, elves, or whatever, they should pay for it themselves.
• international news: Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Dominican republic, Bangladesh, Euroland, Iran, Spain, Workers and immigration
• globalfocus: Genoa diaries - Personal accounts of what really happened.
• New Labour: On the cheap: The government’s sole gesture to low paid workers is the paltry minimum wage. But it bent over backwards to let the bosses make work more casual, temporary and de-humanising.
  Plus: Resisting McDonalds and Casual Killing.
• Slavery calling: Despite being exposed by various sections of the media, the call centre cruelty continues.
• Life-long learning in Higher Education? Quick bucks and short contracts more like.
• First World Debt: Debt in the UK is spiralling, and the daily reality is as stark for the poorest of us in the so-called First World as anywhere else.
• justice page: Solidarity Hunger Strikes; Prison labour; Texas resistance; Gothenburg; Chattanooga 3.
• notes+letters: Good News for Notts; Livingstone Lies; Labour Lies
• Chomsky and Zinn - spoken word reviews
  Noam Chomsky: Case studies in hypocrisy
  Howard Zinn: Stories Hollywood never tells
  Howard Zinn: Heroes and martyrs
• music, spoken word reviews
  Become the Media - Jello Biafra
  Global a go-go - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
  Dizzy spells and Ex orkest - The Ex
• books, pamphlets, periodicals reviews
  In the hands of the enemy - various
  Bread & Roses - IWW union magazine
  Can I quote you on that? - Albrighton and Watts
• closerlook: Striking back 75 Years On: Introspective on the 1926 General Strike and Lessons for the Future.
• DA resources: SolFed info., forthcoming events, campaigns, actions, friends and neighbours.