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Action taken independently by people in struggle rather than appealing to the power of politicians, bureaucrats, and employers.

Most mass direct action is in the form of strikes and other workplace action, non-payment of unjust taxes, pickets, occupations and blockades.

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
Orwell describes the unthinking emptiness behind the rhetoric spouted by the Stalinist hacks of his day: "... prose consists less and less of WORDS chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of PHRASES tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

1968

1968 : - a chronology of events in France and internationally
A short chronology of the events which swept France in May and June 1968. Starting as a student revolt, the events culminated in mass workplace occupations and a general strike of 10 million workers.

Followed by a short international chronology.

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