General Strike
Crisis for Javier Milei as Austerity Bill Is Defeated
After a national strike and days of mobilizations, the movement in the streets has defeated far-right president Javier Milei’s anti-worker Omnibus Bill.
Otto Fors
February 7, 2024General Strike: Argentina Rises Up Against Milei’s Shock Therapy
More than 1.5 million workers walked off the job today in a massive general strike in Argentina against President Javier Milei. But more strikes and demonstrations are needed to defeat his brutal and authoritarian neoliberal reform program.
James Dennis Hoff
January 24, 2024All Eyes Are on Argentina Ahead of Its January 24 National Strike
Since the night of his acceptance speech in November, far-right President Javier Milei has mounted an all-out attack on the rights and living conditions of working people in Argentina. Thousands of people across the country — organized in unions and workers’ organizations, the feminist movement, the student movement, and neighborhood organizations — are preparing to fight back. They are mounting a national strike to defeat austerity and authoritarianism.
Madeleine Freeman
January 23, 2024Eleven Shades of Skepticism and Electoralism: A Debate On the French Left and the Uprising
Our French comrades and members of our sister site and organization Révolution Permanente respond to a debate published in Contretemps and translated to English and published in Jacobin.
Juan Chingo
May 10, 2023France: The Network for the General Strike Calls to Continue the Fight Against Macron’s Reform
At the initiative of the Network for the General Strike, 250 union activists, strikers, and intellectuals, question the strategy of the bureaucratic leaderships of the French unions, and call to continue the fight against Macron’s Reforms.
Left Voice
April 7, 2023Despite Threats of Arrest, Refinery Workers in France Refuse to Break Strike
As energy strikes continue, France is faced with a kerosene shortage that’s creating an urgent situation at the country’s airports. With capitalist profits on the line, the government has attempted to force Normandy refinery workers back to work through an anti-strike legal weapon called requisitions. In their first victory, refinery workers forced the police to withdraw in an incredible demonstration of solidarity.
Nathan Erderof
March 24, 2023“We Need Action Committees Everywhere”: Building the General Strike in France
Workers across France are organizing action committees to build a general strike to take down the Macron government and the Fifth Republic.
Arthur Nicola
March 24, 2023Millions in India Join General Strike against Modi Government
Millions of workers in India have taken to the streets as part of a general strike against the government of Narendra Modi.
Sybil Davis
March 28, 2022Government Inflexibility Provokes General Strike in French Polynesia
For more than a week, especially in the Caribbean, France’s “overseas territories” have seen a wave of mobilizations against the government. On Wednesday, it spread to French Polynesia, in the Pacific.
Antoine Bordas
November 26, 2021Half a Million South Korean Workers Join One-Day General Strike
At least half a million workers in South Korea from across construction, transportation, service, and other sectors walked off their jobs for a one-day general strike on October 20, 2021 to win better conditions and increased self-determination for workers.
K.S. Mehta
October 21, 2021