{"id":23157,"date":"2019-04-28T00:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T08:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=23157"},"modified":"2019-04-28T00:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T08:30:47","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-march-on-mayday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-march-on-mayday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: March on Mayday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Everything You Need to Know About General Strikes<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>A general strike<\/a> is a labor action in which a significant amount of workers from a number of different industries who comprise a majority of the total labor force within a particular city, region, or country come together to take collective action. Organized strikes are generally called by labor union leadership, but they impact more than just those in the union. For example, imagine the scenario if thousands in your town or city \u2014 no matter what their job was or whether or not they were in a union \u2014 got together and decided to go on strike to protest police brutality, as happened in Oakland, California, in 2011, after Iraq veteran Scott Olsen was critically wounded<\/a> by local police when they stormed the Occupy Oakland encampment<\/a>. The community declared a daylong general strike that ultimately saw thousands of people<\/a> shut down the Port of Oakland<\/a> (which was more of a symbolic protest<\/a>, but still it got the job done).<\/p>\n

Though the concept has its roots in ancient Rome\u2019s secessio plebis<\/em><\/a>, one of the first<\/a> modern general strikes took place during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England in 1842, a time of great civil and social unrest, as modern capitalism<\/a> began to take hold and hierarchical class lines began to be drawn between employers and employees. General strikes played pivotal roles in the Russian Revolution of 1917<\/a> and the Spanish Civil War<\/a>. And in the U.S., general strikes became almost common during the 19th and early 20th centuries, with examples<\/a> taking hold in Philadelphia<\/a> (1835), St. Louis<\/a> (1877), Chicago<\/a> (1886), New Orleans<\/a> (1892), and Seattle<\/a> (1919), and during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877<\/a>. These large-scale actions were instrumental in securing crucial workers\u2019 rights\u00a0 www.teenvogue.com\/story\/general-strikes-explained?fbclid=IwAR3NscJlz8ojA9koR2hgGs_wQEuA6tkwn2iDvhnwRTJh2U5ze2ScNgb7IDQ<\/a><\/p>\n

April 29\/30, 1975, the Vietnamese people won and the US ran away. Then “socialism” (really peasant nationalism) betrayed them.<\/h1>\n