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Same reason they freaked the fuck out when we all had to shelter at home because of COVID. Didn’t last long because they needed meat for the grinder and forced a lot of back to work regardless of the risks.
My strike started a year ago. No longer unemployed. I’m on hiatus and on strike. Work doesn’t even seem worth it anymore.
If we could wipe a few trillion dollars out of existence in a few days all the rich would freak the fuck out.
People like musk have so much invested in the market and live off those investments by borrowing against those investments. They pay a fraction of their taxes that way through capital gains being taxed at a lower rate. The 1% have so much invested and all they care about is money!
If we held out long enough someone might just push trump out a window.
People are fucked either way, might as well go out on your own terms. That and its our last option outside of armed revolution.
Workers unite! A general strike is solidarity with everyone, except those delinquent bastards who do no work: Boards, CEOs and upper management.
Isn’t that part of what made the Occupy Movement so threatening to capitalists? The problem was however that it had no direction. The point was disruption, but there wasn’t a clear goal or demand till the end.
I’m all for memes, but what specifically would a general strike accomplish other than the governing class using every method, including police violence and fear, to immediately try to suppress the opposition?
In a society where the majority of people live paycheck to paycheck (by design) a 10 day strike will never happen. You’d be lucky to get 5% of the populace to participate.
The owners would last 10 days, especially if the duration was announced ahead of time. Maybe a general strike that had no end date, once it went 3 months or so, would have the desired effect.
Going Luigi on a bunch of them would be faster, more effective, with stronger effects that lasted longer. Probably fewer total deaths.
No, 10 days is way more than enough, it’s even overkill.
If the full country, all workers, stopped for one (1) day, the billionaire elite would loose their shit.
Because they would instantly know that they lost control of the narrative, and that the people realized that it’s them who have the elite by the balls, not the other way around, and they’d come begging to the table.
Americans aren’t at that stage yet, but there’s a chance that this cabinet and their incompetence will finally go too far and break the camels back.
I think their point is you can’t just commit for only 10 days. It might take less than 10 days, but if that’s your limit, they might try and tough it out.
Be prepared! A general strike is scheduled for Mayday 2028, with UAW and CTU.
SAVE AND PLAN WHAT YOU CAN!
So that you can strike yourself, and so that you can help your neighbors, your coworkers, your comrades strike!
We’ve got 3 more years to prepare for ~10 critical days. If we are all serious about it and spread the word, and are truly prepared for the event, our demands and thus our conditions will improve greatly!
It is up to us.
Do we choose to accept the working situation we have become entangled in, or are we willing to sacrifice for something better?
In 2028. The fuck? Now, my person. Now!
Planning it for further out gives people opportunity to organize and save for missing 10+ days of paychecks. It does feel like if we wait that long though we’ll be in a hopeless situation. Maybe organizing smaller general strikes like state or city wide in the meantime would help prepare and buy time for the big one
At the very least, take the political cycle and midterms into consideration, otherwise what’s the point?
The timing has to do with major union contracts expiring for renegotiation iirc. There are a few really big ones set for the same time which gives a good opportunity for coordinated bargaining across industries
Coordinating with unions 👍 Waiting three years 👎
When is Mayday?
May 1st
Aka international workers day
It was partially coined in remembrance of the Haymarket massacre when the government and capitalist elites deployed armed forces against workers during a general strike, and also after othet strikes around the world and in the US that gave us the standard 40 hour work week.
May 1st. What should have been labor day in the US, but the government moved it to September. Because they can’t have us organizing with the rest of the world.
Something of comedy that pilots call out for a day off when their plane is going down. That was the first mayday that came to mind.
No, electoral politics won’t ever get the job done, however we’re also long past the point of a general strike being enough on its own.
Fascism has been here longer than people are comfortable to admit, but it is going in to full blast mode now, and the masks are well and truly off, those in power will not hesitate to use whatever force they need to to maintain it, and that requires full forced self defence in return, not playing nice (which is what a strike is).
the american government has ariel bombed its bombed its citizens before. they will do it again. and i will point out the workers who got bombed last time knew that was a possibility. they were storming machine gun emplacements for the right to only work 40 hours a week. our ancestors fought to the death to make our world more survivable for us
Those poor, unfortunate souls!
they were unfortunate to have been born into the time they were, but they also did something incredible: they banded together to work together to forge a new world from the ashes of the old. they took a long view towards the world and made a concerted effort to shift things for the better. they were heroes and inspirations
They have enough money to hold out for 10 days. Your rent is still due, and you’re broke—as intended. Good luck.
It’s called solidarity and community, look it up, in fact go learn some actual labour history before you make any more assertions about a subject you clearly know nothing about
This reply is a great way to alienate people who are interested enough in a general strike to get in a thread and point out questions that literally everyone will have.
I’m right that the rich are willing to hold out until we are bled dry. It’s going to take a lot more than 10 days to have actual lasting change. The rich are looking down at us and saying, “isn’t it cute how they starve themselves to make a point, as if their life matters to me at all.”
Okay, let’s just not do this then. Carry on everyone, nothing to see here. ;)
Or we could just go at it harder.
Now you know why they own all the media.
Electoral politics can get the job done but the populous is apathetic for various reasons.
What makes anyone think that people will instead decide to put their livelihoods in peril to accomplish the same thing?
Vote people!!
Don’t get suckered in by identity politics and wedge issues.
Don’t ever vote for a populist with dictatorial tendencies. Especially when that person is a convicted felon, a known liar and a narcissist.It is so obvious!!!
Billionaires will never let you vote away their money or power.
Never.
Vote people!!
They did. For Trump.
What makes anyone think that people will instead decide to put their livelihoods in peril to accomplish the same thing?
Assuming enough people do it, it’s been tremendously successful historically. Hell, we saw what one week of diminished capitalism can do in March 2020.
You’re talking as if liberals didn’t lay the groundwork for everything Trump is able to accomplish.
You’re also trying to conflate apathy for people refusing to vote for someone that does not represent their best interests. People that say ‘vote’ are usually looking out for their best interests and demand that everyone else support their best interests.
Liberals laid the groundwork to prevent Trump from doing far worse. Without courts and checks and balances, Trump would never have left power after 2016 and women, trans people, and minorities would all be literal slaves.
I agree a general strike will do far more than voting, but don’t lose the plot of what’s realistic and possible in pursuit of your idealism. It’s a problem of scale. A general strike is many orders of magnitude more difficult than winning an election.
I’ll be there to strike when the general strike is supposed to happen, but until the general strike happens, if it ever happens, you calling for a general strike does zero material good.
the populous is apathetic for various reasons.
Typical lib, refusing to actually look at the core of the problem (like trillions spent on propaganda, state and capitalist indoctrination since birth, people being deliberately kept too busy and burnt out trying to keep their head above the water, people being deliberately taught a whitewashed version of history and deprived of critical thinking skills, and the list goes on and on and on, but sure “various reasons” so easily dismissed and ignored), and instead expects individual to “solve” systemic problems (and I put solve in
bracketsquotation marks, because liberals, eternal guardians of the status quo, don’t actually want to solve anything, hence the insistence of repeating the same mistake over and over, playing by the oppressor’s rules, and pretending to expect a different result).Typical lib.
You know you’re parroting nazis, right. If you have a problem with corporate centrists you should come up with a different slur for them.
Liberals are a lot closer to nazis than any leftist, and infinitely more willing to work and compromise with them. Libs are the left wing of fascism, a necessary piece to allow nazis to take power, and you’ll never realize that bc you think your politics are 100% infallible and good and flawless
We can’t get people to vote. There’s no way we’re getting a general strike
