#OTD May 18 1941
(Note: Inspired by the Strike of the 100,000, in the French province of Pas-de-Calais (part of the same German administrative area as Belgium) a strike on 27 May lasted until 9 June, by 17,000 miners (around 80 percent of the regional total) out to protest pay and food shortages. Mass anti-Nazi strikes also broke out in the Netherlands and Norway in 1941, and Luxembourg in 1942. )*
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9028/strike-of-the-100,000-ends
#GeneralStrike in #Bolivia calls for resignation of neoliberal #Trump ally, "this government that only wants to turn us into another US colony… We are sovereign. Here, we govern ourselves."
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/05/15/bolivia-workers-launch/
#strike #strikes #union #unions #UnitedStates #neoliberalism #neocolonialism #RodrigoPaz #FSTMB #CSUTCB #capitalism #corruption #exploitation #ClassWar #privatization #GabrielEspinoza #Law1720 #UnionStrong #MarcoRubio #ElonMusk #COB
Today in Labor History May 16, 1934: Teamsters initiated a General Strike (5/16-8/21) for union recognition in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, which was, at the time, the main distribution center for the upper Midwest. The worst violence occurred on Bloody Friday, July 20, when police shot at strikers in a downtown truck battle, killing two and injuring 67. Continuing violence lasted throughout the summer. The strike formally ended on August 22. The strike was led by the Communist League of America, which later founded the Socialist Workers Party (United States). While this General Strike was going on in Minneapolis, there was an equally violent General Strike going continuing on San Francisco’s waterfront (5/9-7/31), with much of the West Coast dockers joining them (Everett, WA; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; and Los Angeles, CA). 9 workers were killed in the West Coast waterfront strikes, along with over 1,000 injuries and over 500 arrests. At the same time, there was also a General Strike going on in Toledo, OH, the Auto Lite Strike (4/12-6/3), in which 2 workers were killed.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #generalstrike #union #minneapolis #sanfrancisco #toledo #police #policebrutality #socialism
So I'm supposed to be upset that the Supreme Court is basically taking away the right to vote from Americans, particularly black ones but really also non-Republicans.
But Democrats are just Republicans in drag anyway. So what exactly are we losing here?
If the Democrats had given Americans a national health care system, guaranteed vacation time, labor rights, housing, ANY of that, they'd have been guaranteed electoral dominance for the next hundred years.
But they didn't, even when they had overwhelming majorities and supermajorities. They wouldn't even give something as lame as a public option for Obamacare, the Democrats' gift to the health insurance executives.
Why do you think that is? Why haven't they done a single meaningful thing for working class Americans since 1980 or before?
Could it be that the oligarchs don't WANT Americans to know that the government can serve the working people of America, rather than the billionaires?
Voting Americans are basically abused spouses—no, more accurate to call them domestic servants—who keep coming back to the sociopaths who've been continuously beating the shit out of them and raping them for the last 45 years.
Past a certain point it's hard to feel sorry for them anymore. But I feel sorry for the kids.
#politics #democrats #dnc #trump #fascism #revolution #GeneralStrike #shitlibs
The people are marching upon the administrative capital, #LaPaz, from all corners of the Andean country. The #strikes are being coordinated by the largest #miners union (FSTMB) and the confederation of #peasant workers (CSUTCB).
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/05/15/bolivia-workers-launch/
#Bolivia #COB #GeneralStrike #Labourmovement #solidarity #union
Samsung Electronics' largest union has lost over 4000 members ahead of a general strike set for five days from now, as internal conflicts and DX ...
Samsung Electronics' largest union has lost over 4,000 members ahead of a general strike set for five days from now, as internal conflicts and DX division backlash intensify.#SamsungElectronics #Super-EnterpriseUnion #Jeonsamno #DonghaengUnion #generalstrike #DXdivision #DSdivision #OPIbonus #labordispute
Samsung Union Loses Thousands of Members Five Days Before General Strike
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Either way, we're going extinct. It's just a matter of how long and drawn-out we want out extinction to be.
Or, you know, we could have a general strike. But that's crazy talk!
What Can We Learn from Kwame Nkrumah and the Ghanaian Revolution?
https://youtu.be/WlAn7YQz3XA?si=UOe6yhkrK5CY9hEr 75 years ago, Ghana was a colony of the United Kingdom known as the Gold Coast. When their leading independence party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 council elections with 90% of the vote. It signaled that the end was near for the era of British colonization, first in Ghana, and soon across the rest of Africa. But a colonial regime isn't really accountable to an election. Their rule was based on force, so why didn't the […]
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