Direct Action

Direct Action #40 (Autumn 2007)

Direct Action #40 (Autumn 2007)contents

Inside this issue:

  • Letters: page 5
  • National:
  • Are we all proud now?: page 6
  • NSSN: Time to organize in the workplace: page 8
  • No new Trident: page 10
  • Bush, Bin Laden and the clash of civilisations: page 11
  • City academies: page 14
  • The ‘caring’ face of New Labour: page 21
  • The scourge of humanity: page 22
  • Manchester Solfed and the Police: page 25
  • History:
  • Factory committees in the Russian Revolution: page 17
  • The Revolution that never was: page 18
  • International:
  • Egyptian class struggle in 2007: page 26
  • Colombian Embassy picketed: page 29
  • The plight of the Penan of Sarawak: page 30
  • The back end:
  • Reviews: page 32
  • Football: take back the people’s game: page 33
  • Contact Directory: page 35
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Direct Action #39 (Summer 2007)

Direct Action #39 (Summer 2007)

Inside this issue

  • The Aims of the Solidarity Federation
  • Editorial - Labour: an anti-working class party
  • Comment - Happy 50th Birthday EU
  • Why does the scum always rise to the top?
  • Hedging their bets
  • Labouring under delusions
  • Lose the Levy (your union subs are keeping Labour afloat)
  • 200 more Years of Slavery
  • Derailed: how the trains are in deep crisis
  • Environ-mental: Why capitalism is destroying the planet
  • New Labour REACHes new depths
  • SolFed conference: where we're heading
  • Rationing by stealth: How market forces in the NHS attack our social wage
  • 57 Varieties - All unfit for consumption - Why all political parties have nothing to offer the working class
  • International - IWA: Solidarity with Colombian workers
  • Thatcherism Down Under
  • May 1st 2007
  • Review - Dancin' in the Streets: Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists and Provos in the 1960s. Edited by Franklin Rosemont & Charles Radcliffe
  • Comment - The cult of celebrity and the poverty of everyday life
  • Solfed/IWA contacts
  • Friends & neighbours
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Direct Action #38 (Spring 2007)

Direct Action #38 (Spring 2007)

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Inside this issue:

  • Direct Action; Inside this issue;
  • The Aims of the Solidarity Federation
  • Comment - War games
  • The STUFF YOUR BOSS doesn't want you to know
  • Workplace assemblies and SF industrial strategy
  • Case study: casual workers in Bristol working with SolFed
  • Discrimination, discrimination, discrimination
  • NHS Notional Health Service - The great health and social care swindle
  • Foundation trusts: a guide for NHS workers
  • International - Iraq, the War on Terror and the health of the state
  • Spanish workers show the way against privatisation
  • APPO come back strong in Oaxaca
  • Anger as Argentine unemployed workers come under increasing pressure
  • IWA Congress: alive and kicking
  • Reviews - Workers Against Work - Michael Seidman
  • The Past Tense publishing project/ South London Radical History Group: The Burning of the Albion Mills; Last orders for the Local?; The Communist Club; Set the People Free: Opposition to ID cards in North London, 1950/2006; A Shabby London Suburb: A walk around the working class & radical history of Hammersmith
  • Comment - Defy T£$CO - How the retail behemoth is tightening its grip on society
  • Capitalism sucks - Poverty, a lack of workers' rights, divide and rule: how anarcho-syndicalism aims to counter these
  • Contacts - Solfed-IWA
  • Friends & neighbours 
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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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