Honestly these talks of general strikes are nice, but seem far fetched.
Plus you don't need it to cave the system. Small localized strikes at say.... shipping and rail yards, would devastate the country in a matter of hours.
Small localized ones are easier to discount in the media and attack with police. We need a broad action of solidarity, not just for the moment but to shift the country away from the very far right path we're on.
I think about 3-4 industries striking at the same time would do the trick. Our big transportation industries including Shipping/Rails/Trucks, Teachers, and Nurses/Medical support staff.
TBH any one of these could tank the country by themselves, but easier to demonize and fight a single industry. If several of them went on strike simultaneously I think more timid, smaller, or less impactful (though no less respectable) unions and industries may strike in solidarity. Whoops there goes your airlines. Whoops there goes college staff and tenured professors. Oopsie daisy there goes state and local governments. Get just a couple of the big players on board and I genuinely believe the rest of the dominoes would fall.
Totally, but as you say it's gotta be industries . Which means Union backing, which means them getting their heads out of their asses. Which means we need to radicalize them and their leadership because any union out there backing Clinton or Biden over Bernie in previous primaries sure ass hell isn't gonna give a rats ass about a general strike.
100% it can. We'd need a large portion of the population to believe in strikes and solidarity. We'd also need these people to feel secure enough to strike. We'd need large unions to not be corporate black holes. We'd need the police to not be able to intimidate the strikers. We'd need the president to not outlaw the strike.
Honestly these talks of general strikes are nice, but seem far fetched.
Plus you don't need it to cave the system. Small localized strikes at say.... shipping and rail yards, would devastate the country in a matter of hours.
Small localized ones are easier to discount in the media and attack with police. We need a broad action of solidarity, not just for the moment but to shift the country away from the very far right path we're on.
I think about 3-4 industries striking at the same time would do the trick. Our big transportation industries including Shipping/Rails/Trucks, Teachers, and Nurses/Medical support staff.
TBH any one of these could tank the country by themselves, but easier to demonize and fight a single industry. If several of them went on strike simultaneously I think more timid, smaller, or less impactful (though no less respectable) unions and industries may strike in solidarity. Whoops there goes your airlines. Whoops there goes college staff and tenured professors. Oopsie daisy there goes state and local governments. Get just a couple of the big players on board and I genuinely believe the rest of the dominoes would fall.
Totally, but as you say it's gotta be industries . Which means Union backing, which means them getting their heads out of their asses. Which means we need to radicalize them and their leadership because any union out there backing Clinton or Biden over Bernie in previous primaries sure ass hell isn't gonna give a rats ass about a general strike.
https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/
I mean, just the threat of a few airports going on strike during the shutdown a few years ago forced Trump et al to concede.
No theyre not, this type of shit can happen
100% it can. We'd need a large portion of the population to believe in strikes and solidarity. We'd also need these people to feel secure enough to strike. We'd need large unions to not be corporate black holes. We'd need the police to not be able to intimidate the strikers. We'd need the president to not outlaw the strike.