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Rep Jim McGovern calls for a nationwide General Strike. This a mainstream Democrat, asking the public to break the law. Yes, General Strikes have been illegal in the U.S. since the 1947 Taft-Hartley bill, written in the wake of the 1945-1946 strike wave, the largest strike wave in the history of the U.S., when literally millions of workers went on strike, from steel, electricity, automotive, to coal, electricity and numerous other industries. This strike wave included General Strikes in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Stamford, Connecticut; Rochester, New York; and Oakland, California. In total, 4.3 million workers participated in the strikes. It was the closest things we've ever had to a nationwide General Strike since the Great Upheaval, 1877.
Also, remember that the 1968 upheaval in Paris, which spread throughout France, was students AND workers, included a General Strike, and forced Charles de Gaulle to flee the country as his government collapsed
https://portside.org/2025-03-15/rep-mcgovern-and-national-strike
@MikeDunnAuthor so is a felon POTUS invoking a war-time power
@MikeDunnAuthor
Is he serious? Or a shill?
@MikeDunnAuthor If the president can violate multiple amendments to the Constitution without consequence, then Taft-Hartley is just a drop in the bucket. Talk alone won’t change anything. Action is required and I think a general strike sounds like just the thing! With the DOJ crippled, if hundreds of thousands of Americans walk off the job, there’s not much they can do. Since would have to be union and non-union, including the banks.
@tricotfeelya
Agreed. Back in the day, unions were all illegal. All strikes were illegal. But workers still did them
Last July students and workers overthrew an entrenched fascist gang that had run their government for 16 years. If they can do it, we can do it.
@LevZadov
Yes we can!