Direkte Aktion
Encyclopedia
The Direkte Aktion is a German bimonthly newspaper
by the anarcho-syndicalist
Free Workers' Union
. It exists since the union's formation in 1977.
In line with anarcho-syndicalist principles, the editors are elected by the national convention of the Free Workers' Union and can be recalled at any time. They do not receive any royalties for their work. Notably, the Direkte Aktion does not have a central office, instead it is created decentrally in the editors' flats and the union's establishments.
Since DA 170 (July/August 2005), a full online edition of the newspaper as well as a PDF
version of the print issue are available. The PDF version, however, only covers the first page of the issue until the next one has been published.
Its predecessors were the Einigkeit (Unity) of the Free Association of German Trade Unions
, the Syndicalist of the Free Workers' Union of Germany
and "Die freie Gesellschaft" (The free society) of the Federation of libertarian socialists.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
by the anarcho-syndicalist
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. The word syndicalism comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union , from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος which means caretaker of an issue...
Free Workers' Union
Free Workers' Union
The Free Workers' Union is a small anarcho-syndicalist union in Germany. It is the German section of the International Workers Association , to which the larger and better known Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Spain also belongs...
. It exists since the union's formation in 1977.
In line with anarcho-syndicalist principles, the editors are elected by the national convention of the Free Workers' Union and can be recalled at any time. They do not receive any royalties for their work. Notably, the Direkte Aktion does not have a central office, instead it is created decentrally in the editors' flats and the union's establishments.
Since DA 170 (July/August 2005), a full online edition of the newspaper as well as a PDF
Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
version of the print issue are available. The PDF version, however, only covers the first page of the issue until the next one has been published.
Its predecessors were the Einigkeit (Unity) of the Free Association of German Trade Unions
Free Association of German Trade Unions
The Free Association of German Trade Unions was a trade union federation in Imperial and early Weimar Germany. It was founded in 1897 in Halle under the name Representatives' Centralization of Germany as the national umbrella organization of the localist current of the German labor movement...
, the Syndicalist of the Free Workers' Union of Germany
Free Workers' Union of Germany
The Free Workers' Union of Germany was an anarcho-syndicalist trade union, which existed from the renaming of the Free Association of German Trade Unions on September 15, 1919 to its official disbandment in January 1933 after the Nazis came into power, although many of its members continued to be...
and "Die freie Gesellschaft" (The free society) of the Federation of libertarian socialists.