Direct Action

Direct Action #1

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  • A General Strike, Will It Happen?
  • Domestic Violence is a Workplace Issue
  • How To Support Victims And Survivors Of Domestic Violence At Work
  • Solidarity Federation workplace organiser training
  • Revitalising Our Collectives: Muddling Through
  • Bosses claw back minimum wage increase from workers
  • War, poverty, crisis & disease: The true face of the capitalist system
  • About Direct Action and Solidarity Federation
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Direct Action #48 (Autumn 2009)

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Inside this issue:

  • 4-5 editorial: Savage Cuts in Spending - Realities and Possibilities
  • 6-7 Hugging Bankers - the rehabilitation of thieves and their narrow self-interest
  • 8-9 Tilting at Windmils - the Vestas workers’ occupation, climate change and class struggle
  • 10 Scabs Are Rubbish - Leeds bin workers on strike against pay cuts
  • 11 Bridging the Great Divide - fan power is challenging football’s growing gulf in class
  • 12-13 The Last Bastion of Ageism - the appalling state of care for older people in Britain
  • 13 Grey Power! - resistance and organistion by older people
  • 14-15 The Drug Laws ain’t Working - how prohibition stimulates a whole range of social problems
  • 16-17 (Not Just) Opposing the British National Party
  • 18-19 Community Unions: Two Birds with One Stone - an anarcho-syndicalist view on community organising
  • 20-22 Autonomy and Solidarity - interview with the Goldsmiths College-based anarchist group
  • 22-23 have your say: Capitalism Kills 1\ The Corner House\ Capitalism Kills 2
  • 24-25 international: Serbia - Free Our Comrades\ Ireland - Rising Class Tensions\ Spain - Boicot!
  • 26-29 reviews: Past Tense - A Post-Fordist Struggle\ Weekly SchNEWS Jim Stanford - Economics for Everyone Tripp York - Living on Hope while Living in Babylon\ Michael Schmidt & Lucien Van der Walt - Black Flame\ Lewis H. Mates - The Spanish Civil War & the British Left
  • 30-33 closer look: Creating a Culture of Class Consciousnes and Resistance in the Workplace
  • 34-35 DA resources: Solidarity Federation booklets / contacts / information / friends & neighbours
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Direct Action #47 (Summer 2009)

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Inside this issue:

  • Direct Action; Inside this issue;
  • The Aims of the Solidarity Federation; Principles of Revolutionary Unionism; Anarcho-Syndicalism
  • Editorial - Why Anarcho-Syndicalism remains relevant today
  • A contradiction at the heart of Chaos: Regulation of global financial markets to solve boom and bust is a non-starter
  • Occupy and Defy: the Visteon workers’ struggle & their union
  • Lewisham Occupation
  • Fujitsu Attack on Pensions
  • Dirty deeds done dirt cheap - Immigrant cleaners: the “hard-to-organise” are self-organising; The Amey Five; Lancaster Workers; Mitie Workers; Why the Unions Fail us
  • Breaking isolation: Domestic abuse and workplace support
  • The Big Green Con: Seeing through the sham of “green” capitalism
  • The Great Dock Strike of 1889
  • No Platform for Fascism
  • Have your say - Anarchism & Crime; The Miami Five; English National Resistance; Left Luggage
  • A Rebellious Tradition
  • (Spain) CNT vs. Ryanair;
  • (Peru) General Strike for the Amazon
  • (International) Killing for Profit
  • (Reviews) Live Working or Die Fighting (Paul Mason); Meltdown: The end of the age of greed (Paul Mason); A Grand Cause: The hunger strike & the deportation of anarchists from Soviet Russia (G. P. Maksimov); The Federación Uruguaya Anarquista (translated & edited by Paul Sharkey); Salvador Puig Antich & the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (edited by Anna Key & translated Paul Sharkey)
  • (Closerlook) Seeing sense in the age of stupid: Alienation, power and the case for social tranformation
  • SF literature; contacts; locals; other local contacts; other contacts & information; friends & neighbours
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Direct Action #46 (Spring 2009)

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Inside this issue:

  • Direct Action; Inside this issue;
  • The Aims of the Solidarity Federation
  • Editorial - The Green Shoots of Class Consciousness?
  • Beyond the Usual Union Structures
  • PFI: the Economics of the Madhouse
  • The Dead End of Nationalisation: how state ownership of industry does not, never has, and never will serve working class interests
  • Breeding like Rats: the professional middle classes under new labour
  • The Crisis Factory: the roots of the global ecological crisis
  • Have your Say - A Killer at Work; April Fools; Police are the Rapist’s Best Friend; Single Status
  • 1976 and All That
  • Looking back at the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike
  • If Voting could Change the System . . . the libertarian case for direct democracy
  • The Union or the Party?
  • (Argentina) Factory Occupation;
  • (Spain) CNT Takes on Robber Boss;
  • (Germany) Alternative Cinema Sacks Activist;
  • (Guadeloupe) Revolt in the Caribbean
  • Reviews - Flat Earth News (Nick Davies);
  • The Dirty Thirty (David Bell);
  • Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Jonah Goldberg);
  • There’s me and there’s you (Matthew Herbert Big Band);
  • The Common Place – CD, various artists
  • Anarchism and Crime
  • Solfed/IWA contacts; locals; other local contacts; other contacts & information; friends & neighbours
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Direct Action #45 (Winter 2008)

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Inside this issue:

  • Direct Action; Inside this issue;
  • The Aims of the Solidarity Federation
  • Editorial - Climate Change & Economic Crisis
  • Economic crisis - Dreaming in the Downturn: will state intervention herald a new dawn for social democrats?;
  • Japanese Lesson
  • Shameful Scenes as BNP Gather in Liverpool
  • Self-Organising in Mental Health
  • Have your say: Anti-Capitalist Feminist Conference;
  • Reforming Parliament?;
  • Address Unknown
  • DIY Politics: solidarity between community, workplace & social movements
  • Anarcha-Feminism or Death! the relevance of anarchism and feminism today
  • Recessive Tendencies: a tale of boom, bust and that old devil called capitalism
  • Workers Control, not Controlled Workers: socialism & workers control the case for libertarian
  • (Italy) Fighting Neoliberal Reforms in Education;
  • (Greece) After the Tear Gas;
  • (Colombia) Repression Continues;
  • Global focus - Cuba: 50 Years of Fidelismo
  • Reviews - Realizing Hope: Life beyond Capitalism (Michael Albert)
  • A Century of Writing on the IWW (Steve Kellerman)
  • Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (updated edition) (Peter Marshall)
  • Chris Wood – Dulwich, 19th December 2008
  • A closer look - Oil Be Damned: why global capital, state power and oil dependence is a recipe for disaster
  • Solfed/IWA contacts; locals; other local contacts; other contacts & information; friends & neighbours
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Direct Action #44 (Autumn 2008)

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Inside this issue:

  • 4: Have your Say - shock doctrine / surveillance / financial crisis...
  • 6: Credit Crunches & Capitalist Calamities
  • 8: Our Health, our Care, our Say? You must be Joking - reports and comment from the health and social care frontline
  • 10: Housing Associations & Housing Benefit
  • 11: No Such Thing as Class? - health & wealth / tax credits favour the middle class / domestic fuel: the facts
  • 14: Work, Consume, Buy! - why capitalism needs the consumer dream and we don’t
  • 16: Work is Slavery - unsavoury truths of the global capitalist production line
  • 18: Anarchism, Fascism & the State
  • 21: The Social General Strike
  • 23: Farmed & Dangerous - the Human and Environmental Impact of Salmon Farming
  • 24: International - poland / serbia / argentina / greece
  • 26: Argentina: Interview with FORA General Secretary
  • 29: Reviews - rebellious spirit / free comrades / anarchist faq / nowtopia / address unknown
  • 32: Get Rich or Die Tryin’ - a closer look
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Direct Action #43 (Summer 2008)

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Inside this issue:

  • 4: Have your Say - religion / climate / Yarl’s Wood
  • 6: Public Sector Strikes Coming your Way
  • 7: Unison Witch Hunt
  • 8: Pensions under Attack
  • 9: Reclaim Higher Education
  • 10: No Such Thing as Class? - classless society / class in Crewe / low pay trap
  • 13: Hostel Residents Fight Back / Academy Site Occupied
  • 14: A Housing Timebomb? - gentrification, class & social policy
  • 16: Food for Thought - food prices, starvation, obesity and the global disease
  • 18: The Workers’ Friend - Rudolf Rocker & the Arbeter Fraint Jewish anarchist group
  • 21: From Protest to Resistance - opposing globalisation
  • 25: International - Starbucks / Mayday 2008
  • 28: Reviews - past tense / the shock doctrine / under two dictators
  • 30: Workers’ Solidarity, not Immigration Control - a closer look at the immigration ‘debate’ & organising immigrant workers
  • 35: Contacts Directory
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Direct Action #42 (Spring 2008)

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Inside this issue:

  • 3: Editorial: Them & Us - the class war and economic slowdown
  • 5: Letters - respect / football fans bite back
  • 6: With Friends like these - what we can do about unions failing to protect us
  • 7: S. London SF Act against Underpaying Restaurant
  • 8: London Coalition Against Poverty
  • 10: Tenant Privacy Breached / Education Workers
  • 11: No Such Thing as Class? - poverty / education / health
  • 14: War is Murder for Profit - Iraq, Afghanistan & the War on Terror
  • 16: The First Casualty of War - Harry, the Media & Afghanistan
  • 17: International - Colombia / Poland
  • 18: The ‘May Days’ - a turning point in the Spanish Revolution
  • 22: International - Mexico / Iran
  • 23: Unione Sindacale Italiana - interview with Italian anarcho-syndicalist
  • 26: Reviews - beyond bullets / making a killing / the anarchist past / my revolutionary life / red mutiny
  • 31: Anarchism, Sex & Freedom - a closer look at the fight against capitalism, patriarchy & repressive religious morality
  • 35: Contacts Directory
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Direct Action #41 (Winter 2007)

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Inside this issue:

  • 3: Editorial - Against all politicians
  • 5: Letters - Al Bangura / Mujeres Libres
  • 6: Silent Nightingales - Karen Reissmann, the NHS and the threat of a good example
  • 9: Death by Superbugs
  • 10: The Caring Face of New Labour - Part 2
  • 11: Casualisation Kills / Education Workers Network
  • 12: Safety First / Lackeys of the Rich
  • 13: A Load of Hot Air - reformist ‘solutions’ to global warming
  • 14: Gaining Respect? - Galloway & co split
  • 16: Supermarket Sweep - the impact of global capitalism
  • 18: The International Workers Association - the founding of the anarcho-syndicalist International
  • 22: No Such Thing as Class?
  • 23: International - Spanish CNT / Germany / Russia / Venezuela
  • 27: Reviews - the subversion of politics / anti-fascist action / Emilio Canzi / drowning dog / deletist / monarchy / art against authority
  • 32: Capitalism is Boring!!!! a closer look at situationism
  • 35: Contacts Directory
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Direct Action

The Solidarity Federation is an anarcho-syndicalist union, a means for people seeking to improve our lives to organise in our workplaces and communities. SolFed brings together people in all occupations regardless of industry, sector or trade – whether we’re employed or not.

SolFed seeks the abolition of capitalism and the institutions of power that are associated with it, such as the state. Our goal is to create a society centred on needs rather than profit, based upon the principle ‘from each according to ability, to each according to need’.

We believe in the principle of direct action – that means doing something for ourselves and not expecting leaders or representatives to act on our behalf.

SolFed members organise ourselves in a federation of local unions; in education we are in the Solidarity Federation Education Union (SFEU) and our members in hospitality are in the Solidarity Federation Hospitality Workers Union (SFHWU)

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