Solidarity Federation

Solidarity Federation

Abbreviation	SF or SolFed
Established	1950; 74 years ago (1950) (as SWF) 1979; 45 years ago (1979) (as DAM) 1994; 30 years ago (1994) (as SF)
Type	Political organisation
Headquarters	Manchester
Location	United Kingdom
Membership (2016)	250
Publication	Direct Action
Affiliations	International Workers' Association
Website	solfed.org.uk
Formerly called	Syndicalist Workers Federation (until 1979) Direct Action Movement (until 1994)

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The Solidarity Federation (SF; SolFed) is a British anarcho-syndicalist political organisation. It advocates for the abolition of capitalism and the state through industrial action, which it agitates for in industrial networks and local groups.

Originally established as the Syndicalist Workers Federation (SWF) in 1950, it became the British section of the International Workers' Association (IWA). In 1979, it reorganised into the Direct Action Movement (DAM), which participated in a number of industrial disputes during the 1980s and organised a short-lived couriers' union. Splits of anarchist communists from the organisation preceded its reorganisation into the Solidarity Federation, which it took the form of in 1994.