Talk:General strike
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Is there some information about the general strike of 1886? This page is linked to from the 1886 page, but when I get here there is no information. Bizarre.
- It's there now.Bobanny 06:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] General Strike v. Sympathy Strike
At what point does a sympathy strike qualify as a general strike? I understand that general strikes tend to have a more revolutionary, political, and class-based character, and that a "critical mass" is part of the formula, but can someone offer a more precise distinction between the two? The article makes a good distinction between general General Strikes and industry-specific General Strikes, but doesn't make the distinction with sympathy strikes adequately. More specifically, if there's any BC or Canadian labour people out there, I'm wondering why the 1903 CPR strike isn't considered a general strike but the 1918 one day strike is considered the first Canadian general strike. I'm not sure about number of workplaces or industries involved in either, but it seems that the main difference is the revolutionary consciousness in 1918, being the year after the Bolshevik Revolution. Thanks, Bobanny 06:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] General strike proposed for the USA on 9-11-2007
Still to early to talk about this in wikipedia?
edit by someone else who actually signs his posts: link: http://strike911.org 24.45.152.94 00:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] General Strike, Election Day 2007
A Garret Keizer has also proposed a general strike for Election Day 2007 in the Notebook section of the the October 2007 issue of Harper's. As more information on this idea becomes available, it should probably be added here. — Aldaron • T/C 20:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
