Direct Action (SolFed) #29 2003

Contents

• Democracy & violence: 2004 update - It is an old joke that any country that puts democratic in its name isn’t - a look at the boys in blue and other not-so-friendly faces of modern western democracy.
• Not the alternative: Social Democracy & the myth of the Left.
• GM crop failure - government ploughs on... Despite these reports, Blair still appears bent on doing the bidding of the GM corporations.
• Retina cheques: ID cards - from fiasco to reality.
• Heavy metal workers; Menwith Hill
• Hurricane DAN; DSEI London
• Mad Pride
• On the edge: Labour-tories; Rubbish wasters; Beyond shameful; Letters from hometown soldiers; Who needs spelling?; Bent coppers; Asylum appeal
• international news: India, Uganda, Belize, US, Scotland, South Korea, Burma, Australia, France, Nigeria, Bangladesh.
• globalfocus: No peace in La Paz, South America is still kicking off; reports from Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia, and Guatemala.
• Social Democracy >>>Dead Or Alive? Free markets - enslaved world; and the nails in the coffin of social democracy.
• Castles, homes & Englishfolk: Home ownership and other home lies.
• Dis-Connexions: New Labour’s Connexions scheme exposed.
• Inside English supermax: Robbie Stewart points out that the Close Supervision Centres have never been a success and never will.
• notes+letters - Resist Wal-Mart; Intro to the future.
• review features
  KSL trio:
  A Day Mournful And Overcast - by an ‘uncontrollable’ from the Iron Column
  Direct Action - Emile Pouget
  Under The Yoke of the State - Dawn Collective
  Streetcore: Joe Strummer
• book reviews
  The Good Shopping Guide - ECRA
  From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers- Rahila Gupta
  Eco-economy - Lester Brown
  Tomorrow’s Energy - Peter Hoffman
• film reviews
  Rabbit-proof Fence - Philip Noyce
  Jeremy Hardy vs. the Israeli Army - Leila Sansour
• music reviews
  The Executioner’s Last Songs vols. 2 & 3 - Jon Langford & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
  You can’t keep a good band down - Randy
• Biting the hand we feed: RIP welfare state - and voting won’t bring it back. Analysis of how we got here, and the lowdown on why.
• DA resources: Info., upcoming events, campaigns, friends & neighbours