Direct Action (SolFed) #48 2009

Contents

• editorial: Savage Cuts in Spending - Realities and Possibilities
• Hugging Bankers - the rehabilitation of thieves and their narrow self-interest
• Tilting at Windmils - the Vestas workers’ occupation, climate change and class struggle
• Scabs Are Rubbish - Leeds bin workers on strike against pay cuts
• Bridging the Great Divide - fan power is challenging football’s growing gulf in class
• The Last Bastion of Ageism - the appalling state of care for older people in Britain
• Grey Power! - resistance and organistion by older people
• The Drug Laws ain’t Working - how prohibition stimulates a whole range of social problems
• (Not Just) Opposing the British National Party
• Community Unions: Two Birds with One Stone - an anarcho-syndicalist view on community organising
• Autonomy and Solidarity - interview with the Goldsmiths College-based anarchist group
• have your say:
  Capitalism Kills 1
  The Corner House
  Capitalism Kills
• international:
  Serbia - Free Our Comrades
  Ireland - Rising Class Tensions
  Spain - Boicot!
• reviews:
  Past Tense - A Post-Fordist Struggle
  Weekly SchNEWS
  Jim Stanford - Economics for Everyone
  Tripp York - Living on Hope while Living in Babylon
  Michael Schmidt & Lucien Van der Walt - Black Flame
  Lewis H. Mates - The Spanish Civil War & the British Left
• closer loolc. Creating a Culture of Class Consciousnes and Resistance in the Workplace
• DA resources: Solidarity Federation booklets / contacts / information / friends & neighbours