Tom Jordan

  • Why the army wouldn't fight

    "We ran at the tanks and they ran away", 19-year-old Moscow engineering student Kostya Borodyenko told Green Left Weekly by phone last week. The fact that relatively small demonstrations around the Russian

  • Victory for military resisters

    According to the new South African newspaper The Objector, Douglas Torr, a conscientious objector to military service, had his jail sentence set aside in the Rand Supreme Court on May 20 and will now only have to do community

  • Mike Leigh versus Gaffer Reeves

    Life is sweet UK 1990 Written and directed by Mike Leigh Seen at the Sydney Film Festival ReviewedOne of the few things I remember from four years of Slough Grammar School English was what I now call the Gaffer

  • The art of dobbing in

    Guilty by Suspicion Written and directed by Irwin Winkler USA 1991The Ear Czechoslovakia 1969 Written by Jan Prochaska and Karel Kachyna Directed by Karel Kachyna Both features of the Sydney film festival Reviewed by Tom

  • Still not in from the cold

    On June 17, long-time peace activists Michael Randall and Pat Pottle will be tried for helping famous double agent George Blake escape from a British prison in 1966. Randall and Pottle admit they did it but insist that they committed

  • The forgotten soldiers

    Although it has been largely ignored by the commercial media, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of military resisters of the US and European armies who refused to participate in the Gulf War. According to the National Campaign

  • US sailors face Gulf charges

    Two United States sailors who served on the carrier Ranger during the Gulf War are facing court martial and the possibility of 10 years' imprisonment. The two are being held at Subic Bay in the Philippines. According to Citizen

  • Military war resisters

    Military war resistersResisters Inside The Armed forces (RITA), an organisation formed by anti-Gulf War members of the armed forces of several countries, is organising an international conference of "military war resisters and

  • Fiji workers strike Australian-owned mine

    By Norm Dixon and Tom Jordan Nine hundred mine workers at the Vatukoula gold mine on Fiji's west coast are on strike to gain recognition of their union from both the company and the government.

  • Prominent Israelis call for the end to Gulf War

    At a press conference held in Jerusalem on February 6, a petition was presented which called for an immediate cease-fire and a negotiated end to the Gulf War. It was signed by 126 Israeli peace activist and public figures. A number of