#REDIRECT General strike
Am I right in thinking there was a general strike in Spain 2002? User:Tzartzam 18:19 Sep 4, 2002 (PDT) Italy. User:DanKeshet 19:39 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC) ? And Spain. I'll look.... -- User:Tzartzam :See [http://www.marxist.com/Europe/spain_june20aw.html] Huh! Now that I see the article, I remember, but I had completely forgot! BTW, are we going to list every single general strike, even if it was only a one-day message? Different general strikes have had very different characters. User:DanKeshet :You're right, we shouldn't list ''every'' one. However, a "list of general strikes in X region" would be good. One for each continent seems fair -- there will probably be too many to list on this page, but not enough to merit a "General strikes in Andorra" page or anything. So: *General strikes in Europe *General strikes in North America :..etc. -- User:Tzartzam Also, is there some hysterical raisin why we're capitalizing the 's' in "Strike"? General Strike isn't a proper noun, so it really belongs at General strike. Same goes for all the individual general strike pages. User:DanKeshet :Yeah. Don't know who did that, but I agree with you. Anyone disagree? (Speak now...) -- User:Tzartzam
A general strike is a strike action by an entire labour (economics) in a city, region or country. In the late 19th century, the growing international labour movements advocated general strikes for industrial or political purposes. General strikes were frequent in Anarchism in Spain during the early twentieth century, where revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism was most popular. The biggest general strike in recent European history – and the largest general wildcat strike ever – was May 1968 in France. Many left-wing and socialism movements have hoped to mount a "peaceful revolution" in a country by organizing enough strikers to completely paralyze it. With the state and corporate apparatus thus crippled, the workers would be able to re-organize society along radically different lines. This philosophy was favored by the anarcho-syndicalism labor organization Industrial Workers of the World, especially in the early twentieth century, when many members hoped to organize "One Big Union" of all workers who would launch the general strike that would end capitalism forever. The term "general strike" is sometimes also applied to large-scale strikes of all of the workers in a particular industry, such as the Textile workers strike (1934). Those "general" strikes, however massive they might be, only involve workers who are pursuing their own immediate economic demands. The classic general strike, by contrast, also involves workers who have no direct stake in the outcome of the strike; as an example, in the 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike, both organized and non-union workers struck for four days in protest of the police and employers' tactics that had killed two picketers and in support of the longshoremen's and seamen's demands. The distinction is not always that clearcut. In the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, as an example, many building trades unions and organizations of unemployed workers in federal work projects struck in sympathy with striking truckdrivers and in protest against the police violence directed against picketers; thousands of others participated in demonstrations in support of the strikers. Those sympathy strikes, while sizeable, never acquired the duration or scope necessary to amount to a "general strike", however, and the organizers of the Teamsters' strike did not describe it as such. ==Notable General Strikes== *1820 Rising in Scotland *1912 Brisbane General Strike *Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 *Seattle General Strike of 1919 *UK General Strike 1926 *San Francisco general strike of 1934 *Toledo General Strike of 1934 *May 1968 *Uruguay general strike of 1973 *Sunningdale Agreement#The Ulster Workers' Council Strike *Italian general strike of 2002 *Spanish general strike of 2002 *Ukraine's Orange Revolution of 2004 == See also == * direct action * list of strikes == External links == *[http://www.sonic.net/~figgins/generalstrike/ chronology of general strikes] *[http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/index.htm The Mass Strike] by Rosa Luxemburg (1906) Labor
Is there some information about the general strike of 1886? This page is linked to from the 1886 page, but when I get here there is no information. Bizarre.
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Am I right in thinking there was a general strike in Spain 2002? User:Tzartzam 18:19 Sep 4, 2002 (PDT) Italy. User:DanKeshet 19:39 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC) ? And Spain. I'll look.... -- User:Tzartzam :See [http://www.marxist.com/Europe/spain_june20aw.html] Huh! Now that I see the article, I remember, but I had completely forgot! BTW, are we going to list every single general strike, even if it was only a one-day message? Different general strikes have had very different characters. User:DanKeshet :You're right, we shouldn't list ''every'' one. However, a "list of general strikes in X region" would be good. One for each continent seems fair -- there will probably be too many to list on this page, but not enough to merit a "General strikes in Andorra" page or anything. So: *General strikes in Europe *General strikes in North America :..etc. -- User:Tzartzam Also, is there some hysterical raisin why we're capitalizing the 's' in "Strike"? General Strike isn't a proper noun, so it really belongs at General strike. Same goes for all the individual general strike pages. User:DanKeshet :Yeah. Don't know who did that, but I agree with you. Anyone disagree? (Speak now...) -- User:Tzartzam
General strike
A general strike is a strike action by an entire labour (economics) in a city, region or country. In the late 19th century, the growing international labour movements advocated general strikes for industrial or political purposes. General strikes were frequent in Anarchism in Spain during the early twentieth century, where revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism was most popular. The biggest general strike in recent European history – and the largest general wildcat strike ever – was May 1968 in France. Many left-wing and socialism movements have hoped to mount a "peaceful revolution" in a country by organizing enough strikers to completely paralyze it. With the state and corporate apparatus thus crippled, the workers would be able to re-organize society along radically different lines. This philosophy was favored by the anarcho-syndicalism labor organization Industrial Workers of the World, especially in the early twentieth century, when many members hoped to organize "One Big Union" of all workers who would launch the general strike that would end capitalism forever. The term "general strike" is sometimes also applied to large-scale strikes of all of the workers in a particular industry, such as the Textile workers strike (1934). Those "general" strikes, however massive they might be, only involve workers who are pursuing their own immediate economic demands. The classic general strike, by contrast, also involves workers who have no direct stake in the outcome of the strike; as an example, in the 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike, both organized and non-union workers struck for four days in protest of the police and employers' tactics that had killed two picketers and in support of the longshoremen's and seamen's demands. The distinction is not always that clearcut. In the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, as an example, many building trades unions and organizations of unemployed workers in federal work projects struck in sympathy with striking truckdrivers and in protest against the police violence directed against picketers; thousands of others participated in demonstrations in support of the strikers. Those sympathy strikes, while sizeable, never acquired the duration or scope necessary to amount to a "general strike", however, and the organizers of the Teamsters' strike did not describe it as such. ==Notable General Strikes== *1820 Rising in Scotland *1912 Brisbane General Strike *Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 *Seattle General Strike of 1919 *UK General Strike 1926 *San Francisco general strike of 1934 *Toledo General Strike of 1934 *May 1968 *Uruguay general strike of 1973 *Sunningdale Agreement#The Ulster Workers' Council Strike *Italian general strike of 2002 *Spanish general strike of 2002 *Ukraine's Orange Revolution of 2004 == See also == * direct action * list of strikes == External links == *[http://www.sonic.net/~figgins/generalstrike/ chronology of general strikes] *[http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/index.htm The Mass Strike] by Rosa Luxemburg (1906) Labor
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Is there some information about the general strike of 1886? This page is linked to from the 1886 page, but when I get here there is no information. Bizarre.
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