Direct Action (Ukrainian: Пряма дія, romanized: Pryama diya) is an independent trade union in Ukraine that pulls together students of leftist views.

[citation needed] According to the “Direct Action” manifesto, the trade union is aimed at the creation of student organisation from below, which is based on the horizontal principles of coordination.

This organisation should gradually replace the bureaucratic apparatus and form the relations in the educational sphere on the basis of equal rights, direct democracy and cooperation.

[citation needed] The statute of the union states that the membership in the “Direct Action” is prohibited to the people who have racist, nazi or sexist views or support any chauvinist doctrine.

[citation needed] From the moment of its foundation, the trade union became a member and the initiator of several campaigns devoted to the protection of students' and workers' rights.

Trade union claims their activists and supporters are subject to pressure, threat of being expelled from university and interests of intelligence services members after “series of successful actions (together with other youth organisations) against the establishment of fees for previously free services in the universities, against cutting funds for scholars and against the plans to suspend scholarships for students who received even a single grade of “3”- (C).”[citation needed]