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.

Anarcho-syndicalism: history and action

A pamplet by DAM about the organisation, the history of syndicalism in the UK and the rebirth of anarcho-syndicalism. Scanned by and gratefully…

DAM and the trade unions

A DAM pamphlet from the 1980's outlining what is wrong with trade unionism, then a mass movement, and the anarcho-syndicalist alternative…

The IWA today - South London DAM, 1985

A short pamphlet about the International Workers Association (IWA) and its sections published by the South London group of the Direct Action…

Winning the class war - An anarcho-syndicalist strategy

The Direct Action Movement's 1991 pamphlet on strategy, setting out a vision of networks of militant…

"No Poll Tax Here": DAM pamphlet against Poll Tax

This is a short pamphlet put out by the DAM in around 1988, as interest was growing in England and Wales against the Poll Tax, which was already well advanced in Scotland.

13. Norwich BNP election meeting, 1990(?)

11. Marble Arch Blood and Honour gig, London, 1989

8. Brick Lane - fascism and anti-fascism, London

Anarcho-syndicalism, racism and struggle

Interesting account of an anarcho-syndicalist and member of the Direct Action Movement about being an ethnic "minority" in Britain and how to oppose racism, from around 1983.