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What's even more wild is that May Day was chosen to commerate the Haymarket Massacre in America after Americans had a real General Strike in 1886 and were executed, beaten, and jailed for it by the capitalist class.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day#Origin
Important to note, Shawn Fain of the UAW is organizing a General Strike on May Day of 2028. Start saving now, prepare, and be ready to participate and support your neighbors, your colleagues, and your self.
Saving? The threat of a strike seems a lot less intimidating if only people who can afford it will participate.
Those that can save, should, so that they can help their neighbors and colleagues who can't.
We are only powerful if we work together, and that means those that can save excess money, should, and also be bold enough to offer support, and those that can't should prepare in other ways like organizing and promoting, and be bold enough to seek support when they need it.
We win this together, not individually.
Sorry, not trying to put you down. Thats not at all what I want. I just see it a different way. Rather than focusing on the self we need to focus on the group. Saving so you'll be able to wait it sounds OK but what would be better is building the trust or just trusting that we won't stop striking until all our needs our met. That includes the damages caused by the strike.
Stirke tomorrow and trust that we are all going to have each other's backs, so if you need food that food will be provided. If your landlord is threatening to evict the town will show up to the court house and protest until all debt related to the strike is forgiven.
Unless we are using that 4 years to get this message across nothing will be done.
I think we're saying the same thing.
We can't go into the 2028 general strike thinking about self preservation - we can't go into the 2028 general strike unprepared.
We have less than 4 years to lay the ground work for a success that cannot be defeated by the capitalist class.
In my mind, that means all the above:
Voting allied people into federal, state, and local governments who won't massacre us this time, including sheriffs and mayors and governors and judges
Gathering people together to understand each other and build rapport and trust
Building the list of goals and demands so we have a definition of success that can be capitulated
Organizing support networks to ensure we don't starve or get evicted and etc, while on strike
The capitalist class will have an intelligence operation, they will know if they can simply wait us out or exploit weaknesses - if we prepare right, they will know that their best option is to give into our demands. The more prepared and united we are, the faster they'll surrender.