Direct Action (SWF): #11 1976

"It may be bitter for you, but it's mild for us" - caption of a photo of Harold Wilson drinking beer. Headline "useful work?"

An issue of Direct Action including: Government blames workers for unemployment, Marxism and unions, review of Liz Willis' pamphlet on women in the Spanish Civil War, criminal trespass law, review of The Industrial Syndicalist - collection of newsletters 1910-11.

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