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Topic: Direct Action
Direct action is the name given
to a tactic used by political agitators as a propaganda tool.
It consists of mob agitation which is (a) unlawful, usually criminal,
and (b) forcible and coercive. There are set out below links
to writings by FB on this website which deal with the types of
direction indicated.
General writings on direct action
1995.011
T064 - Official failure to resist direct action militants,
The Times, 20 September 1995
1998.008 ‘Yes,
we do live in a democracy’, 162 JPN (1998) 575
2000.065
NLJ...L ‘Use of conspiracy law in direct action cases’,
150 NLJ p.1397
2004.048
FBBB36 - ‘Bennion on Google 1’, FB’s British
Blog, 6 Jan 2004
Peter Hain stopping South African
sporting tours in protest against apartheid
1970.009 ‘Why
I am prosecuting Peter Hain’, Published as pamphlet 27
May 1970
1973.001
Hain’s interference with the Wilf Isaac’s Cricket
Tour 1969
2000.064
The House of Lords and Hain’s direct action conviction,
2006.046
Account of FB's prosecution of Peter Hain, Dec 2006
Direct action by anti-pornography
demonstrators
1983.007
Review of The Influence Of Pornography On Behaviour Edited
by Maurice Yaffé and Edward C. Nelson, 103 TFT (1983)
42
Direct action in support of proportional
representation
1983.013
T033 - Objections to proportional representation, The Times,
15 June 1983
Flying pickets in support of building workers
2004.013 ‘Paul
Foot and the thuggish Ricky Tomlinson’, Oldie 179, Feb
2004
2004.015
PE5 - Death of Paul Foot, 1112 PE 13 p.6, 19 Aug 2004
Direct action in a fuel crisis
2000.045 ‘In
Parliament 40 Jimmy Hood and the fuel crisis’, 150 NLJ
p.1659
Direct action against a power station
2009.022
OBS008L 'Long live the ballot', Observer Review, 14
June 2009
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