Direct action #48 (Autumn 2009)

in 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