Issue #54 of Direct Action, with articles on anti-terror legislation, a work-to-rule in the NHS, local strikes in the Post Office, a claimants' conference in Oxford, Dutch police staging a "campaign of silliness", the CPGB moving right, a critique of Solidarnosc leader Lech Walesa, a report from the WSA, the politics of Irish Republicanism, the COB in Brazil, a review of a 1 in 12 report on the Economic League, German nazi computer games, mass sackings of union workers at Chelsea Girl, disputes at Jaguar and Lucas Aerospace in Coventry, Yardley's in Basildon, and more.
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- Direct Action #02 (1981)
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- Direct Action #54 (January 1989)
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- Direct Action #62 (January 1990)
- Direct Action #63 (March/April 1990)
The publication reviewed as "Against Democracy" in here seems like it must be an early version of the "Spies at Work" book. Also, it's very noticeable that at around this point they must have had someone who really liked puns working on the editorial group. Carrying a picture of a Brazilian footballer on the first page to trail an article about anarcho-syndicalist unions in Brazil is a fairly bold move as well.