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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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By no1, 18 October, 2008
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Education Worker #3

In this issue:

  • Migrant Cleaners
  • Confronting Inequality
  • Double Whammy for the Low Paid
  • Unions Derecognised at Nottingham Trent
  • Hera to Zero
  • What we Mean by Direct Democracy
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  • Education Workers Network (EWN)

Direct Action #44 (Autumn 2008)

Direct Action #44 (Autumn 2008)

contents

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)

Direct Action #43 (Summer 2008)contents

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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By no1, 18 May, 2008
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Education Worker #2

In this issue:

  • Bullying
  • HERA Lessons
  • What we think of...
  • Pensions
  • Work Councils
  • Academy Schools
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Direct Action #42 (Spring 2008)

Direct Action #42 (Spring 2008)contents

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)

Direct Action #41 (Winter 2007)contents

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 #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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By no1, 18 May, 2007
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Education Worker #1

In this issue:

  • HERA
  • What we think of...
  • Crichton Campus
  • Union Partnership
  • Health & Safety
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Guides

Your rights at work

About SolFed

About SolFed

Do you sometimes feel your union isn’t listening to you? (Solidarity Federation Education Union - SFEU)

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What is wage theft?

What is wage theft

This is our flag - it tells you what we stand for

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Solidarity Federation Hospitality Workers Union (SFHWU)

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Stuff your boss (doesn't want you to know)

Stuff your boss (doesn't want you to know)

Why do we organise? Capitalism is shit, oppression is shit - but what can we at SolFed do about it?

Why do we organise?

Stuff your sexist boss (doesn't want you to know) (2018)

Stuff your sexist boss (doesn't want you to know) (2018)

Cost of living - Organise and fight back with the Solidarity Federation

Cost of living - Organise and fight back with the Solidarity Federation

Don't cross picket lines! Solidarity is the most powerful force in the world

Don't cross picket lines

Direct Action #2 (2024)

Direct Action #2 (2024)

Don't just moan - Organise!

Don't just moan - Organise!

Is your cleaning job killing you? A guide to cleaners health and safety (2017)

Stuff your landlord (doesn't want you to know) (2016)

Stuff your landlord (doesn't want you to know) (2016)

Fed up with your landlord? Organise and fight back!

Fed up with your landlord? Organise and fight back!

A migrant's guide to Manchester (2016)

A migrant's guide to Manchester (2016)

SolFed supports trans liberation - transphobia is a workplace and housing issue

SolFed supports Trans Liberation - transphobia is a workplace and housing issue

Office worker’s health and safety - your rights and how to use them (2015)

Office worker’s health and safety - your rights and how to use them (2015)

Solidarity Federation - Where we stand

Solidarity Federation - Where we stand

Anarcho-syndicalism in Britain – a little history (2015)

Anarcho-syndicalism in Britain – a little history (2015)

Strike - a guide to walking out (2014)

Strike - a guide to walking out (2014)

Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism (Rudolf Rocker, 2014)

Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism (Rudolf Rocker, 2014)

There's power in a union

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A migrant's guide to London (2014)

A migrant's guide to London (2014)

Fighting for ourselves - anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle (2012)

Fighting for ourselves - anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle (2012)

Theory & Practice 1 - Workmates - direct action workplace organising on the London underground (2011)

Theory & Practice 1 - Workmates - direct action workplace organising on the London underground (2011)

The Economics of freedom (2003)

The Economics of freedom (2003)

A history of anarcho-syndicalism (SelfEd Collective, 24 unit series, 2001)

A history of anarcho-syndicalism (SelfEd Collective, 24 unit series, 2001)

Out of the frying pan, a critical look at works councils (1998)

Out of the frying pan, a critical look at works councils (1998)

Health and safety at work - an anarcho-syndicalist approach (1997)

Health and safety at work - an anarcho-syndicalist approach (1997)

Theory & Practice 2 - Anarcho-syndicalism in Puerto Real (1994)

Theory & Practice 2 - Anarcho-syndicalism in Puerto Real (1994)

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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)

Join us!