Meaning of direct action | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A form of political activism in which participants act directly, ignoring established political procedures. It may take the form of strikes, workplace occupations, sabotage, sit-ins, squatting, revolutionary/guerrilla warfare, demonstrations, vandalism or graffiti.
   uncountable, usually
2. Small-scale raids, ambushes, sabotage, etc. carried out by the military.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“Or there are those who believe that in general the wisest way for people to get what they want is by the indirect method of voting into power some one who will make what they want legal; yet who all the same will occasionally under exceptional conditions advise a strike; and a strike, as I have said, is direct action.”

“It should be easy enough to see why anarchists have always been drawn to direct action.”

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