Direct action (disambiguation)

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Direct action is militant political action outside the usual political channels.

Direct action may also refer to:

Books

• Direct Action: An Ethnography, a 2009 book by David Graeber
• Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla, a book about anarchism by Ann Hansen

Organizations

• Action Directe (English: Direct Action), a French leftist terrorist group
• Direct Action (trade union), an independent Ukrainian students union
• Direct Action, also known as the Squamish Five, a Canadian anarchist organization

Periodicals

• Direct Action (magazine), an anarchist magazine published by the Solidarity Federation
• Direct Action (newspaper), an Australian newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales

Other uses

• Act of War: Direct Action, a 2005 real-time strategy game
• Action Directe (climb), a rock climb in Frankenjura, Germany
• Direct action (military), a military operation involving special operations forces
• Direct Action: Day 21, a 2001 album by punk rock band Sham 69
• Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), a day of rioting and killing in Calcutta also known as the Great Calcutta Killings
• Direct-action lawsuit (legal)