Direct Action was re-launched in June 2008. From the very first issue it has campaigned to support the fight for democracy in the Asia Pacific region. Every month, Direct Action provides up-to-date reports, articles and background information on the Asia Pacific as well as solidarity actions and campaigns being organised by Australian and international solidarity organisations.

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Number 19 - February 2010

Book bannings spur Indonesia's struggle for political liberty - By Max Lane

Abdurrahman Wahid: contradictions of an unsuccessful demo - By Max Lane

Burma's generals prepare rigged election - By Hamish Chitts

Rudd ignores war crimes to boost ties with Sri Lanka - By Sam King

Number 18 - December 2009

• New left-wing political organisation formed in Papua - By Hendrik Sorandanya
• East Timor: hydrocarbons, invasions and independence - By Jon Lamb

Outsourcing occupation - By Hamish Chitts

• Street protests greet Yudhoyono's inauguration - By James Balowski
• Indonesian leftist makes Australian speaking tour - By James Crafti
• Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the crimes before our eyes - By Dave Lindorff

• Indonesia: 'Oppositionists' seek cabinet posts - By Max Lane
• Howard's new lies on East Timor - By Jon Lamb
• Afghanistan occupation quagmire enters ninth year - By Hamish Chitts
• India teeters on the brink of food crisis - By Sukanta Mandal

• Women's liberation and the struggle for socialist politics in Indonesia - By Sam King
• Jusuf Isak (1928-2009): Indonesian socialist journalist and publisher - By Max Lane
• TW.S. Rendra (1935-2009): Dissident in the wind - By Max Lane
• Vietnam: How 'state capitalism' misleads Australian socialists - By Allen Myers

• No surprises in Indonesian presidential election - By Max Lane
• The Indonesian left and Green Left Weekly - By Max Lane
• Ten years since East Timor's vote for freedom - By Jon Lamb
• Crisis in Nepal's capitalist democracy - By Ray Fulcher

• Anti-neoliberal demagogy fails to enliven Indonesian election - By Max Lane
• Afghanistan: Karzai builds warlord alliance - By Hamish Chitts

• Little voter enthusiasm for Indonesian presidential candidates - By Max Lane
• Still waiting for justice in East Timor - By Jon Lamb
• Australian death squads in Afghanistan - By Hamish Chitts
• Sri Lankan Army massacres Tamil civilians - By Kerry Vernon
• Escalating US proxy war in Pakistan - By Ray Fulcher

• Sri Lanka's rulers seek 'final solution' to Tamil resistance - By Kerry Vernon
• Indonesian elections put militarists into the game - By Max Lane

• Afghanistan: Rudd endorses Obama’s war surge - By Hamish Chitts
• Indonesian election campaigns get off to a limp start - By Max Lane
• The Philippines left today - By Max Lane

• Gap between elite and people widens as Indonesian elections approach - By Max Lane
• Papernas leaders sow illusions of radical change through the ballot box - By Zely Ariane
• Where is East Timor heading? - By Jon Lamb
• Labor tiptoes around sending more troops to Afghanistan - By Hamish Chitts

• Thai socialist threatened with jail - By Allen Myers
• Why the US is losing the war in Afghanistan - By Nick Everett

Number 7 - November 2008

• Malaysian socialists host international conference - By Hamish Chitts
• Upturn in Indonesian workers' struggle - By Sam King
• Cambodia and Vietnam: Different endings to US war - By Allen Myers

• 9/11 and the imperial adventure in Afghanistan - By Larry Everest
• Washington escalates Pakistan's civil war - By Linda Waldron

• CPI (ML) builds stronger party in India - By John Percy

• Ten years after Suharto, Indonesians fight 'democratic' neocolonialism - By Sam King

• East Timorese still waiting for justice - By Jon Lamb
• 20,000 Indonesian farmers take on Australian mining company
• Burma’s long struggle for democracy - By Jon Lamb
• Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto - Reviewed by Nick Everett

• New Indonesian alliance fights fuel price rises - By Max Lane
• Another advance for Malaysia’s socialists - By Max Lane
• Revolutionary eye on Pakistan: Interview with Farooq Tariq - By Linda Waldron and Ray Fulcher

• Left collaboration growing in Indonesia - By Max Lane
• New Asia-Pacific solidarity website launched - By Doug Lorimer
• The struggle for a 'political alternative of the poor' in Indonesia - By Zely Ariane
• Slowly, justice approaches for Khmer Rouge killers - Helen Jarvis