We shut down our entire government rather than let them take away our health care to give the money to Sociopathic Oligarchs. That’s a better response than a general strike. We tie their hands, but we keep getting paid.
I dont define things like this. I dont care really what people are, only what they could become. Consciousness and radicalism is shifting left, hard.
The active left is growing rapidly. Democratic Socialists of America has become larger than ever. In less than 10 years, we grew from like 10-15k members to 80k members, and still growing. Our unions, many of which were mired in bureaucratic stagnation, are seeing legit reform movements in some of the largest industries, with admittedly mixed results.
Remember that a general strike is illegal in the USA, and our people are very legalist minded. But reformer UAW president Shawn Fain is encouraging unions to renegotiate their contracts to end on May 1 2028. If all the contracts expire on the same day and all the different industries renegotiate, it isn’t a general strike. Its many small craft unions and a few big ones renegotiating at the same time. So no, we aren’t ready to have one today, but we are getting ready to have one in less than 3 years. While Trump keeps ruining everything, the people are getting prepared to shut it all down.
The die isn’t cast but its a good start and we are growing rapidly and improving in radicalism, experience and audacity. I’m very close to it because I’m an organizer, so I may have my biases, but I can also see the changes occurring.
i joined the DSA, and I want more unions, class solidarity, strikes.
it’s just so fucking frustrating how many workers will die protecting their oppression.
every protest where the organisers speak more about how to make sure the protest doesn’t inconvenience anyone.
Fuck, use No Kings protest to block the roads they are protesting in for a few days and the government will collapse and a new one who is terrified of the people will make good policies.
They can’t send the police to arrest half the nation. And if dems had balls they would state that they will pardon all the protesters who are detained. (Dems with balls, that’s like a horse with a horn)
but we can’t inconvenience a single driver. no no no.
When I lived in Barcelona, I think most protests blocked the whole road.
lol, strike in America?
most American workers would rather lick oligarch boots than look like a commie.
there hasn’t been one since 1919, not even with unpopular Vietnam was.
and they are illegal, and Americans love loving police boot and following the law like freedom loving sheep they are
1934? When Americans won our new deal? Bloody Thursday? Teamster Rebellion? Little UAW?
Tend to agree we aren’t ready but study your labor history if you wanna be an even cooler Albert.
We actually had a left in this country before Stalin and FDR destroyed it. Time to rebuild
Italy just had a general strike.
and look at all those countries that have just had a revolution.
the Americans ain’t got the guts for something like that
We shut down our entire government rather than let them take away our health care to give the money to Sociopathic Oligarchs. That’s a better response than a general strike. We tie their hands, but we keep getting paid.
You need to have a theory of change.
compared with other countries, US working class is quite tame.
that’s why they have so little to none labour rights,
I dont define things like this. I dont care really what people are, only what they could become. Consciousness and radicalism is shifting left, hard.
The active left is growing rapidly. Democratic Socialists of America has become larger than ever. In less than 10 years, we grew from like 10-15k members to 80k members, and still growing. Our unions, many of which were mired in bureaucratic stagnation, are seeing legit reform movements in some of the largest industries, with admittedly mixed results.
Remember that a general strike is illegal in the USA, and our people are very legalist minded. But reformer UAW president Shawn Fain is encouraging unions to renegotiate their contracts to end on May 1 2028. If all the contracts expire on the same day and all the different industries renegotiate, it isn’t a general strike. Its many small craft unions and a few big ones renegotiating at the same time. So no, we aren’t ready to have one today, but we are getting ready to have one in less than 3 years. While Trump keeps ruining everything, the people are getting prepared to shut it all down.
The die isn’t cast but its a good start and we are growing rapidly and improving in radicalism, experience and audacity. I’m very close to it because I’m an organizer, so I may have my biases, but I can also see the changes occurring.
i joined the DSA, and I want more unions, class solidarity, strikes.
it’s just so fucking frustrating how many workers will die protecting their oppression.
every protest where the organisers speak more about how to make sure the protest doesn’t inconvenience anyone.
Fuck, use No Kings protest to block the roads they are protesting in for a few days and the government will collapse and a new one who is terrified of the people will make good policies.
They can’t send the police to arrest half the nation. And if dems had balls they would state that they will pardon all the protesters who are detained. (Dems with balls, that’s like a horse with a horn)
but we can’t inconvenience a single driver. no no no.
When I lived in Barcelona, I think most protests blocked the whole road.
otherwise it is just a party, not a protest.
From someone with a mis-spelled user name.