The phrase "austerity of action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where actions are taken with strictness, simplicity, or minimalism, often in a serious or disciplined manner.
Example: "The team's austerity of action during the crisis demonstrated their commitment to efficiency and focus."
Alternatives: "strictness of action" or "minimalism in action".
Last week the Student Assembly Against Austerity organised a day of action which saw a wave of protest on more than 25 campuses.
The People's Assembly group has also called a national week of action against austerity cuts during the party conference.
The campaign group, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC is launching a series of austerity protests in a week of action to time with the Rio Paralympics.
The TUC is consulting unions on the practicalities of a nationwide stoppage, although it will not be in time to take part in a Europe-wide day of action against austerity on 14 November.
More recently, students groups organized a day of action against austerity on November 12 and a march against pipelines and Plan Nord on Saturday, November 15.
The fact that our government is choosing the latter course of action proves that austerity really is an ideological choice, and that those who endorse it fundamentally do not believe the state should support the very people that, in many cases, it has already failed.
Prison officers have been threatened with legal action for holding protest meetings as up to 400,000 public sector employees, including police officers, lecturers and border control staff, staged a day of action against the government austerity programme and pension changes.
The Student Assembly Against Austerity is co-ordinating a major national week of action in February next year to make the government think twice and rule out any further privatisation of the student loan book.
While the week of action, coordinated by the Student Assembly Against Austerity and the NHS Bursary Cuts Forum, is all about access to nursing education, it is also part of the wider fight for free, publicly funded education for all.
The European Trade Union Confederation said that 40 unions in 23 countries had joined the "day of action and solidarity" against the blanket of austerity imposed on state spending in the past four years.
