On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.

Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts every Monday at 8pm. Phone 9633 6976 to contact the producers or make a donation.

The Farm — A powerful three-part drama about small farmers as economic rationalism took hold in Australia in the 1980s. The bank threatens foreclosure on Tom (Col Friels) and Liz (Greta Scacchi) Cooper's farm. They decide to fight back. ABC-TV, Sunday, March 18, 8.30pm.

Movie: Land and Freedom (1996) — Socialist director Ken Loach's marvellous film about the Spanish Civil War tells the story of David, young and unemployed, who leaves Liverpool to join an international brigade of the republican militia to fight against Franco's fascists. David and his comrades' experiences at the front and in Barcelona are shaped by the Spanish workers and peasants' courageous struggle for land and freedom, and their betrayal by the Stalinist Spanish Communist Party. ABC TV, Tuesday, March 20, 11pm.

100 Years: the Australian Story — Rise and Fall of White Australia — The first major legislation passed by the new federal parliament in 1901 was the Immigration Restriction Act, or the White Australia Policy as it was better known. It took 60 years before this policy was officially replaced. ABC-TV, Wednesday, March 21, 8.30pm.

From GLW issue 440