Issue #44 of Direct Action, with articles on a wage struggle and new disciplinary rules at Leeds Council, a successful strike at Metalastik, abortion and women in the class struggle in Britain and Northern Ireland, revolt and repression in the prison system, jailed miners, state racism, a "mischief-maker's handbook" from the 1 in 12, a special feature on 1917 in Russia and its effects in the UK, letters on contraception, patriarchy and working in the unions, an interview about Poland under martial law, and more.

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- Direct Action #02 (1981)
- Direct Action #03 (1981)
- Direct Action #04 (1981)
- Direct Action #05 (1981)
- Direct Action #06 (1981)
- Direct Action #07 (1982)
- Direct Action #08 (1982)
- Direct Action #09 (1982)
- Direct Action #10 (1982)
- Direct Action #11 (1982)
- Direct Action #12 (1983)
- Direct Action #13 (1983)
- Direct Action #14 (1983)
- Direct Action #17 (August? 1984)
- Direct Action #18 (September 1984)
- Direct Action #19 (October 1984)
- Direct Action #20 (November 1984)
- Direct Action #21 (December 1984-January 1985)
- Direct Action #22 (February 1985)
- Direct Action #23 (March 1985)
- Direct Action #24 (April 1985)
- Direct Action #26 (July 1985)
- Direct Action #27 (January 1986)
- Direct Action #28 (February 1986)
- Direct Action #29 (March 1986)
- Direct Action #30 (April 1986)
- Direct Action #31 (May 1986)
- Direct Action #32A (July 1986)
- Direct Action #32B (September 1986)
- Direct Action #33 (October 1986)
- Direct Action #35 (December 1986)
- Direct Action #36 (January-February 1987)
- Direct Action #37 (March 1987)
- Direct Action #38 (April 1987)
- Direct Action #39 (May 1987)
- Direct Action #40 (May-June 1987)
- Direct Action #41 (July-August 1987)
- Direct Action #42 (September 1987)
- Direct Action #43 (October 1987)
- Direct Action #44 (November 1987)
- Direct Action #45 (December 1987-January 1988)
- Direct Action #46 (February 1988)
- Direct Action #47 (March 1988)
- Direct Action #48 (April/May 1988)
- Direct Action #49 (June-July 1988)
- Direct Action #50 (July-August 1988)
- Direct Action #51 (September 1988)
- Direct Action #54 (January 1989)
- Direct Action #56 (March 1989)
- Direct Action #58 (June 1989)
- Direct Action #60 (August-September 1989)
- Direct Action #62 (January 1990)
- Direct Action #63 (March/April 1990)
By the way, this one also has a brief mention of an avant-garde art group in Yugoslavia winning a government-sponsored poster competition by entering an old Nazi Party design. I imagine this is the sort of thing that it'd probably be possible to research, but without checking, what do people reckon the odds are that this is an early mention of Laibach/NSK?