Direct Action Movement

Anarcho-syndicalism: history and action

A pamplet by DAM about the organisation, the history of syndicalism in the UK and the rebirth of anarcho-syndicalism. Scanned by and gratefully taken from The Sparrows' Nest.

DAM and the trade unions

A DAM pamphlet from the 1980's outlining what is wrong with trade unionism, then a mass movement, and the anarcho-syndicalist alternative. Scanned by and gratefully taken from The Sparrows' Nest.

The IWA today - South London DAM, 1985

International Workers Association logo

A short pamphlet about the International Workers Association (IWA) and its sections published by the South London group of the Direct Action Movement in 1985.

Winning the class war - An anarcho-syndicalist strategy

The Direct Action Movement's 1991 pamphlet on strategy, setting out a vision of networks of militant workers seeking to create explicitly revolutionary workplace and community based groups capable of initiating collective direct action - revolutionary unions. The DAM became Solidarity Federation in 1994.

"No Poll Tax Here": DAM pamphlet against Poll Tax

This is a short pamphlet put out by the DAM in around 1988, as interest was growing in England and Wales against the Poll Tax, which was already well advanced in Scotland.