Combat the Bedroom Tax's Brief Guide to Direct Action

"Harpooned to the sides of capitalistic society it shall tear and bleed it until the shark turns the final somersault" - Émile Pouget

"Direct action may be the extreme of violence, or it may be as peaceful as the waters of the Brook of Shiloa that go softly." - Voltairine de Cleyre

Direct action is taking matters into our own hands

Direct action is not a boycott

http://libcom.org/library/boycotting-amazon-boycotting-ukuncut-or-why-thin-understanding-post-fordist-capitalism-f

Direct action is not dependent on approval from the state

http://ca.ibtimes.com/articles/255711/20111124/occupy-toronto-encampment-taken-longer-occupied-photos.htm#page4

Protestor shaking hands with a copper

Direct action is under the control of the participants

http://seasol.net/

Direct action is not a letter to your MP

http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/campaigns/current_campaigns/cam-fw-esaactions/cam-fw-mpcontact.htm

Direct action is chasing bailiffs off

http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/kirkby-activists-face-down-thieving.html

Local residents prevent bailiffs from entering property in Liverpool

Direct action is not a petition

http://antiworkfare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/i-direct-action-your-petition-and-raise.html

Direct action is not, nor never will be, lobbying the local council

http://www.writetothem.com/

Direct action is expropriation of food to feed your family

http://libcom.org/news/unemployed-take-food-mercadona-carrefour-mass-action-andalucia-08082012

Unemployed take food from Mercadona and Carrefour in mass action in Andalucia

Direct action is not a foodbank

http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1967_food_banks/2002%20Riches%20food%20banks.pdf

Direct action is a wildcat strike

http://iwwboston.org/2013/08/19/workers-at-insomnia-cookies-go-on-wildcat-strike/

Direct action is not a march from point A to B

http://libcom.org/blog/what-october-20-tells-us-about-state-movement-21102012

Direct action is the Gulabi Gang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulabi_Gang

Direct action is Anti-Fascist Action
http://libcom.org/history/articles/afa-anti-fascist-actionhttp://libcom.org/history/articles/afa-anti-fascist-action

Direct action is not a symbolic protest

http://tmso.org.uk/ 
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/

UKuncut activists outside Nick Clegg's House

Direct action is fighting for ourselves

http://libcom.org/library/fighting-ourselves-anarcho-syndicalism-class-struggle-solidarity-federation

Direct action is not about the media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEb9i_cuhy4

Direct action is not civil disobedience

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flower_Power_demonstrator.jpg

http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/2594683.jpg?type=articleLandscape

Direct action is sabotage

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-pouget-sabotage.pdf

Direct action “subscribes to notions of freedom and autonomy”

http://libcom.org/library/direct-action-emile-pouget

Direct action is the "normal function" of working class resistance

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