Direct Action Movement (DAM)

Content by or about UK based Anarcho-Syndicalist organisation founded in 1979. DAM has its origins in the Syndicalist Workers Federation. DAM became the Solidarity Federation in 1994.

Direct Action #25 1985 cover

Direct Action #25 (May 1985)

An issue of this anarcho-syndicalist paper including: trade unions and the political levy to the Labour Party, miners organise internationally,…

Reads "Nobody wants to work" except "work" is crossed out and reads "be fucking exploited anymore"

Liverpool Anarchist #24

Contains articles on the shortcomings of anti-Tory politics, a local environmental campaign, a history of the Liverpool Anarchist Group and an…

Ainriail Visits England: Video & Speaking Tour

An account of a speaking tour of England by Belfast Anarchists in 1986. Published in Ainriail #6 January 1987.

Direct Action Movement becomes Solidarity Federation

An article from 1994 responding to the Direct Action Movement's change of name to the Solidarity Federation, published in the Workers Solidarity Movement magazine Red and Black Revolution.

Direct Action #46 (February 1988)

Issue #46 of Direct Action, with articles on NHS disputes, unofficial strikes at Ford, Linda Bellos overseeing "left Labour" cuts in Lambeth,…

Direct Action: Paper of the Direct Action Movement (1980s)

Online archive of over 75 issues of Direct Action, an anarcho-syndicalist paper produced by the…

Bulgaria the New Spain - The Communist Terror in Bulgaria

Against the grain: the British far left from 1956

A general history of the post-1956 British far-left. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together…

Strike action pamphlet cover

Strike action - Direct Action Movement

Pamphlet on strike action, its uses and how to make it effective, published by the South and East London groups of the anarcho-syndicalist Direct…

The sans culottes in the French Revolution, 1793-1797 - Edinburgh DAM

A short pamphlet produced by the Direct Action Movement about the sans culottes: the revolutionary,…

English language discussion bulletin - DAM, WSA and ASF

Partial online archive of issues of a bulletin produced by the UK, US and Australian sections of the anarcho-syndicalist International Workers Association, the Direct Action Movement, Workers Solidarity Alliance and Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation respectively, from 1988.

English language discussion bulletin #01

The english language discussion bulletin of the IWA for the year 1988.