Direct Action: Magazine of the Solidarity Federation (1990s-2000s)

Direct Action written on a black and red flag.

A partial online archive of Direct Action, a magazine published by the British anarcho-syndicalist organisation the Solidarity Federation from 1994 until 2009.

Libcom also hosts a gallery of Direct Action cover artwork here.

Submitted by Fozzie on July 31, 2022

The Solidarity Federation restarted Direct Action as a newsletter in 2023.

Direct Action was also the name of the paper of the Solidarity Federation's predecessor, the Direct Action Movement. An archive of the DAM Direct Action is here.

DAM's predecessor organisation was the Syndicalist Workers Federation. An archive of the SWF's Direct Action paper can be found here.

Missing issues: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Partial issues (no PDF): 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19, 23, 24.
If you have copies of these that can be scanned, please let us know.

Comments

Fozzie

2 years 5 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on July 31, 2022

SF Direct Action archives:

http://www.solfed.org.uk/da - later issues, some PDF, some text.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120304101910/http://direct-action.org.uk/ - earlier issues, text and PDF.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Direct%20Action%22%20%22Solidarity%20Federation%22 - 32 PDF scans of issues.

Sparrows Nest have scans of 1 and 2 (the pre-magazine newsletter - there were also issues 1 and 2 of the magazine...)

Fozzie

2 years 2 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on October 5, 2022

This now includes all the available PDFs (or available text if no PDF) I could find. It looks like Sparrows Nest has a complete set which are not yet scanned...

Steven.

2 years 2 months ago

Submitted by Steven. on October 5, 2022

Amazing stuff!