Direct Action and Democracy Today is a 2005 book by April Carter, she is supportive of direct action (a form of political and economical activism) and suggest that theorists have not been paying enough attention.
Direct Action and Democracy Today is a 2005 book by April Carter. Carter is clearly supportive of direct action, but her analysis is based on logic and evidence rather than advocacy. Her assessments suggest that theorists have not been paying enough attention to the challenge posed by direct action, a challenge to both systems of power and the ideas that legitimate them. Direct action originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest; in contrast to those actions that appeal to others (e.g. authorities); by, for example, revealing an existing problem, using physical violence, highlighting an alternative, or demonstrating a possible solution. 
