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Some strikes are more general than others A critique of a recent article from the Organizing Work blog, "You Say You Want A General Strike", examining recent general strike calls in…
You say you want a general strike Marianne Garneau critiques recent calls for general strikes. This article first appeared on Organizing Work.
Thunberg's Call for General Strikes: The Confusions of a Liberal Protest The Youth Climate Protest have turned to the mass strike as a weapon of protest. Unconsciously, they…
1892 New Orleans General Strike An extract from Life in the Teamsters: The Civil Rights Movement documenting an early example of class solidarity in the segregationist southern…
Origins and Development of Workers Autonomy in Spain (1970-1976) – Miguel Amorós A chronicle of the rise and fall of the fortunes of the assembly movement in Spain during the early…
The March Intifada - Bahrain, 1965 The March Intifada in Bahrain, 1965 began with the laying off of hundreds of workers at the Bahrain Petroleum Company, school students protested,…
Operation Sold Out II: The Failed General Strike in British Columbia in 2004 – Paul Finch This essay, on the brewing general strike that nearly erupted across British…
General Strike in South Africa Cities and rural towns across South Africa were shut down today as the new South African Federation of Trade Unions, which is independent of the…
A Victim of Power (Corp) and Police: The La Presse Conflict and the Tear Gas Suffocation of Michele Gauthier A report on the 1971 conflict at La Presse and the police killing of socialist feminist Michele Gauthier. The broader struggle against Power Corp., the impact of the police killing, and the development of the Common Front and subsequent general strikes.
