We need to shut it all down for weeks before they realize we’re serious. But to foster change we’d have to shut it down for months.
Ok let’s try one day first. You know, get our legs under us.
Bullshit
COVID killed the economy in a couple days
That’s why nothing will change.
Not with that kind of attitude.
we’re going into summer. the time to plan and plant your garden is immediately. if you are serious about a general strike, goodbye grass hello garden. your entire yard. You’re Going To Be Living Off That Shit. I don’t want to be shilling a textbook, but i have a friend who wrote one in the 90s for explicitly that thing. There’s probably something more recent, but i like to support my friend.
Beautifully coincides with May Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day
They are trying to co-opt May Day and neuter it
FYI to others: I have this tankie from Lemmy.ml tagged as believing China doesn’t ban images of Xi as Winnie the Pooh, lol.
All I ever see them be is antagonistic, sowing apathy, defeatism, or trying to egg people with stochastic rhetoric (but never themselves, of course).
There’s more than a few of these around. They start shit on otherwise seemingly normal posts for no reason, and often have a couple (friends? Alts?) to give them a couple upvotes to keep them afloat. IDK why they seem more prevalent lately and they’re only there to be dicks and not actually engage.
Its the fragile little bird again. Hows that boot taste?
Damn dude, you ever reconsider a position after being ratio-ed that hard?
As if I care what BlueMAGA thinks
Explain why you think a general strike is neutering workers?
A 1 day event is not a general strike, it’s a performance
That’s what Labor Day was for. You seem very confused. Did you get hit in the head recently?
May Day is for recognizing labor. The US oligarchy is using that date to redefine what that day was designed for by using terms that are gaining reactions in the US, coopting them so they can neutralize the impact. They are doing to labor what MAGA communists are doing to neuter communism with disenfranchised conservatives.
I’m glad that after Minnesota general strikes are on the table again. Especially now that we’re bringing May Day back.
It doesn’t say which unions have signed onto this “General Strike.” Do they even plan on involving the unions in this? -is it like last time when they said they were having a “General Strike” but it wasn’t a real General Strike?
It’s illegal for unions to coordinate a general strike. If they were signed on they would be pretty careful about it. That’s why the UAW president was making waves by suggesting that everyone set their contracts to end on the same date.
oh now we are talking. and it’s for more then one day and with a list of demands yes?
Much as I like this idea, it’s not going to catch on. You think the average non-union retail or office worker will risk being fired? We are locked into the system we have, and sadly, that’s that. Unless and until a plurality of workers lose the entire life they have.
Without existing strong organization you’re probably right, but it’s more likely that the wheels will come off and a general strike would happen naturally with rising inflation and unemployment.
The shitter things get, the less tight your social ties need to be for collective action. Everyone’s implicitly on the same page when you start missing meals.
Yeah, the average commuter will have to lose their house in the burbs (just 50 miles from work), the kid’s private school, and the Tundra. When Frank Freeway is living in a rented shipping container and eating slop from the church food bank, MAYBE a few years of that will wake us the fuck up.
Me? I’m retired. I could lose everything any time.
Well you have to remember that Franks house is on an adjustable rate mortgage and his Tundra still has 80 months left on the loan. If the income gets cut, the rug gets pulled on everything and people wake up real quick.
Would be too late
The general strike will be May 1 between the hours of 12-230pm. Be sure to bring signs and do not inconvenience anyone/anything. This will show them who’s in charge.
Ml user here, I think it’s rad. Gonna radicalize the libs at my local protest with May Day history ¯_( ツ)_/¯
Like, I think the No Kings protests, for instance, while great at getting people out, struggle to give those people direction, beyond the big protest.
But any good Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, [insert preferred flavour of leftist] will know that you go where the masses are. And if the masses are at a big protest, then you go to the big protest to recruit, educate, and even just network with cool people and orgs.
Are you including Beltane and Wiccan Sabbaths that got coopted by the labor movement or…
So I’m Wiccan, and while if pulls from things, and arises out of an occult millieu much older than it, Wicca is essentially a modern religion. The Wheel of The Year, the Wiccan liturgical calendar, is newer than the labor movement’s establishment of May 1st as Intl. Worker’s Day.
Beltane, was originally a Gaelic holiday Marking the midway point between the Spring Equinox and the summer solstice (and its not even what the Holiday was originally called in Wicca btw).
It makes sense that a general spirit of resistance would come from working class Irish and Scottish who sat on the periphery of English Industrializations benefits, and were more easily exploited as cheap labor. And it makes sense that they might latch onto an existing springtime festival as a date for a radical workers holiday. Spring means new birth, perhaps even of a world beyond Capitalism.
Also some important labor movement events happened around that time of year, most famously the Haymarket Affair, Which had a huge impact on the son selection of May 1st.
So I don’t think it’s at all bad that international Workers day, the culture of a historically colonized people, and pagan springtime holidays, both ancient and modern, all coincide and intersect. In fact I think it’s a beautiful thing.
It’s like looking at Pride month, and Juneteenth in the US, and asking why gay people stole June from black people. They didn’t. Two oppressed people groups in the US experienced seismic events in the history of their liberation during that month. And that’s sick as hell!
Tl;dr - yeah, mentioning may 1st as also being a pagan spring festival is cool too
You are not doing anything, you can’t even get something simple like a protest right
Except it won’t.
