direct action

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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.

Japanese Meaning

政治的直接行動：公式な政治手続きを経ず、直接的な行動によって政治的要求を実現しようとする活動。具体例として、ストライキ、職場占拠、破壊行為、シットイン、占拠、革命的またはゲリラ戦、デモ、器物損壊、落書きなどが挙げられる。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

組合は交渉を迫るために、ストライキや座り込み、工場の占拠を含む一種の直接行動を組織した。

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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.

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