Global General Strike
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Thursday May 09, 2002 11:08
by Global General Strike
What is the most efficient weapon in the hands of people. It is a general strike that uncompromisingly halts all routines of our daily life for a moment.
What is the most efficient weapon in the hands of people. It is a general strike that uncompromisingly halts all routines of our daily life for a moment.
If the German IG Metall goes on strike it might have some devastating shocks on the economy.
If the Norweigian LO decides to halt all working by its large memberforce it might have some immediate effect on national scale.
When the Argentinian economy collapsed it had a severe impact on the Argentinian economy. But the jaws of the corporate policestate continues to clatch in the rest of South America.
In Italy general strikes have been announced and accomplished but their impact on the global economy is scarcely even marginal.
In order to have impact on a global scale we need to concentrate our effort on a global general strike.
This global general strike should be accompanied with a global massive scale netstrike where preselected companies would be targeted.
We should remember that this opens an excellent opportunity to arrange wide scale of activities simultaneously when the general strike is on. For example World Wide Reclaim the City.
Selfdefense against corporate onslaught.
Unless the inhabitants, workers, activists, anarchists, environmentalists
and all the other groups of people who keep up the struggle against the corporate policestate are able to achieve a global general strike,
much of the rest will be in vain.
Only a global general strike will have an effect on a global level.
We should also remain focused on the weakpoints of the system. Stock exchanges, banks and credit establishments.
Do not forget that the corporate media is along with the forementioned institutions the core antagonist of a more humane, just and friendlier
tomorrow. Hence, heavy activities must accordingly be guided against
it.
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2How can we organise a global general strike? We usually can't get more than 200 people on the streets of Dublin, how are we going to presuade every worker in the world to stop working? Don't get carried away. Besides, most workers would not give up a days wages in the name of a better world. As regards the media being evil, you only have to look at the support the media have given us since Monday. The RTS rally has been front page for three days and it is the media who are demanding answers. Grow up.
...just going to cost you extra pain.
They might be interested in RTS for a moment.
Sure they are. It`s a selling attribute.
But what about next month?
Next year?
I dare to say that it is not all that far away
the day when we`ll see well co-ordinated
general strikes on a global level.
Don`t fall for the mediahype.
We cant afford to play according to
rules they stipulate.
You become easy pray for them if you
believe in that line you commented above.
The moneymakers are globalizing
the financial web into a worldwide
stockexchange.
That`s why we need to globalize the resistance.
Global General Strike
Solidarity
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